Welcome to 100 Years of Disney Magic, a series examining the history, achievements, and legacy of Disney Studios over the last century.
The Walt Disney company is now a centenarian. First founded as the Disney Bros. Studios in October 1923 — a partnership between Walt and his older brother Roy — the animation company would go on to change the media landscape in ways that would have shocked even the forward-looking, ever-ambitious Uncle Walt himself.
The studio is a cultural behemoth, thanks to its years of box office dominance, cross-media strategy, and massive library of highly valued IPs. Disney was the first studio to have two billion-dollar movies in one calendar year in 2010, and then was to have a total gross of 3 billion at the domestic box office in 2016. After buying up Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, the company officially acquired the juggernaut 21st Century Fox, a studio with roots going all the way back...
The Walt Disney company is now a centenarian. First founded as the Disney Bros. Studios in October 1923 — a partnership between Walt and his older brother Roy — the animation company would go on to change the media landscape in ways that would have shocked even the forward-looking, ever-ambitious Uncle Walt himself.
The studio is a cultural behemoth, thanks to its years of box office dominance, cross-media strategy, and massive library of highly valued IPs. Disney was the first studio to have two billion-dollar movies in one calendar year in 2010, and then was to have a total gross of 3 billion at the domestic box office in 2016. After buying up Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, the company officially acquired the juggernaut 21st Century Fox, a studio with roots going all the way back...
- 2/2/2023
- by Sarah Milner
- Slash Film
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