Disney

 Walt Disney

Disney, one of the most successful film studios of all time, was founded in the 1920s by a man called Walt Disney in a small office in LA. In 1922, he teamed up with his friend Iwerks and started producing animations based off of cartoons and fairytales. Then working with his brother, he came up with the ‘Alice comedies’(where he got the idea for Alice in Wonderland) which became a hit in hollywood and was the kick start to his career.

From there, he created some of his first iconic films like;

• Mickey mouse (1928)

• Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937)

• Pinocchio (1940)

And kept growing and growing from there to this day.

The Walt disney studios are located in Burbank, California but have scattered the studio name all over the world through parks,cruise ships and much more.

Walt disney is not owned by a single person but is a publicly- traded company. However, being a huge conglomerate studio, disney now own most of the well known film companies around the world. Most of their fortune has come from buying all these brands.

Walt Disney owns:

• 20th Century Fox

• Marvel Studios 

• Star Wars

• Pixar 

• National Geographic 

• ESPN

This altered and hugely affected their income for the better, when they branch out to all different styles and genres of films like action, horror and more, it means they attract a much wider audience as the “disney” name is often associated with animation and childrens movies. It also means that when one of their brands has made an upcoming movie or done really well financially, disney will take a lot of that success. 

Now that Disney studios have been running for over 90 years you could imagine how incredibly wealthy they have become. Creating some of the highest grossing films with budgets such as $316 mil (Avengers- Infinity war) and $356 mil (Endgame). Their top 5 highest grossing movies are currently:

• Frozen II - $1.450 billion
• Frozen - $1.281 billion
• The lion king - $1.083 billion
• Zootopia - $1.024 billion
• Big Hero 6 $657.8 million

You can imagine how much money they have made over these ,almost, 10 decades to produce these high quality kind of films. All from an idea in a little room in Kansas.