Disney Movies
1928, well November 18 1928 is the day
Mickey Mouse was born in a file titled “Steamboat Willie”
86 Academy Awards have been won by Disney as of the year
2005.
20 million copies of Finding Nemo sold in the first 14 days.
48 million units sold of Finding Nemo worldwide.
70.7 million in box office sales for the opening weekend for the
Incredibles, best opening weekend for Disney/Pixar release.
46 movie releases that have grossed over $100 million domestically
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution holds the all-time industry
record.
1 million copies of Snow White are sold on the first day its
release on October 9, 2001
1,800 photographs were taken of the city of Esfahan, Iran for the
research of the movie Aladdin.
$4 million was the budget for the 1953 Disney classic Peter
Pan.
750 artists, 2 million drawings, and some 1,500 shades of paint is
what it took to bring the Disney classic Pinocchio to the big
screen.
$2.6 million was the cost for creating Disney classic
Pinocchio.
$8.5 million in gross sales made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
making it the highest grossing film of all time in 1937, until Gone
with the Wind hit the theaters 2 years later.
4 movie companies are owned by the Walt Disney Company which
includes the following, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures,
Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax Pictures.
49 releases that have grossed over $100 million domestically, Buena
Vista Pictures Distribution holds the all-time industry
record.
$1 billion box office gross threshold again in 2005, becoming the
first international distribution company in history to achieve this
feat 11 times in ten consecutive years.
1 million DVD copies of Disney’s Snow White were sold on the first
day of release back on October 1, 2001.
$1,499,000 budget to make Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs during
the great depression, it debuted on December 21, 1937 at the Carthy
theater in Los Angeles.
$200 million
was the domestic gross for the film Aladdin
9500 feet in the Columbia Mountains
near Panorama, British Columbia is where the film ALIVE was
shot.
44 animated features; classic films have been produced up to
2004.
9 animated feature, computer films have
been produced up to 2006.
8 animated features; live-action features with animated characters
or segments have been produced up to 2006.
4 years to make Aristocats and a budget of over $4 million.
325,000 drawings are in Aristocats dome by 35 animators, with 20
main sequences to the film having 1,125 separate scenes using 900
painted backgrounds.
250 people worked on the film Aristocats.
$140 million was the box office gross for Beauty & Beast making
it the largest animated gross of it’s time.
12 years in the making is what it took to bring Black Cauldron to
the big screen.
5 years of actual production to make Black Cauldron.
$25 million dollars were spent making Black Cauldron.
1,165 hues and colors were used to bring to life Black
Cauldron.
34 miles of film stock were used to produce Black Cauldron.
14 months of production were needed to produce the movie The Black
Hole.
$20 million dollars were spent making the movie the Black
Hole.
$450 million was earned in worldwide gross by the movie Cars.
5 million copies of Cars are sold in 2 days of its release on
11/7/2006.
$55.5 million in the U.S. alone on the opening day of Pirates of
the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, the highest single-day gross in
box office history. The film also broke the box office record for
an opening weekend, bringing in over $135 million.
$1 billion in global box office for the movie Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, making it the 3rd highest grossing
film of all time.
5 million units of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest was
sold in its 1st day of release on DVD on 12/5/2006.
51 movie releases that have grossed over $100 million domestically
make Buena Vista Pictures Distribution the all-time industry
record.
1,362 produced and acquired movie titles, including 1,129 live
action movie titles and 233 cartoon shorts and animated features,
were available to the domestic home-entertainment marketplace by as
of September 30, 2006, under the banners Walt Disney Pictures,
Touchstone Pictures Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, and
Dimension.
20 Academy Awards have been won by the Pixar and Disney/Pixar movie
studios as of the year 2006.
270 pieces of food were created in the computer for
Ratatouille.
911 full length live action feature films were release in Fiscal
year 2007
79 full-length animated features were released in fiscal year
2007
544 cartoon shorts and 53 live action shorts under the Walt Disney
Pictures, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax
and Dimension banners were released in fiscal year 2007
1,410 produced and acquired titles were produced under the
following banners Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures,
Hollywood Pictures, Miramax and Dimension
1,176 live-action titles and 234 cartoon shorts and animated
features, were available to the domestic home-entertainment
marketplace
3,070 produced and acquired titles, including 2,270 live-Action
titles and 800 cartoon shorts and animated features, were available
to the international home-entertainment market
11 of the top 25 features, 22 of the top 25 animated features and
17 of the top 25 directto-videos in home video, in terms of units
sold by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
23rd best-selling animated feature on home video, in terms of units
sold is the movie Cars