
The studio's predecessor (and the modern-day The Walt Disney Company's as a whole) was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. See also: The Walt Disney Company § History

The 2019 remake of The Lion King is the studio's highest-grossing animated film worldwide with $1.6 billion, and Pirates of the Caribbean is the studio's most successful film series, with five films earning a total of over $4.5 billion in worldwide box office gross. Walt Disney Pictures is currently one of five live-action film studios within the Walt Disney Studios, the others being 20th Century Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and Searchlight Pictures. At the end of that decade, combined with Touchstone's output, Walt Disney Pictures elevated Disney to one of Hollywood's major film studios. The live-action division became Walt Disney Pictures in 1983, when Disney reorganized its entire studio division which included the separation from the feature animation division and the subsequent creation of Touchstone Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures.ĭisney began producing live-action films in the 1950s.

Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit, and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.
