Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group
The subject of this article is a corporate group of movie studios, not to be confused with Buena Vista Distribution.The
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidiaries of
The Walt Disney Company. It includes:
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Walt Disney Pictures*
Touchstone Pictures*
Hollywood Pictures*
Miramax Films*
Pixar Animation StudiosThe name Buena Vista comes from the much older company
Buena Vista Distribution, a company founded by Walt Disney as a subsidiary to distribute his films in 1955. That name in turn came from the street name
South Buena Vista Street in Burbank where the
Walt Disney Studios complex was, and still exists today.
The most recent President of the Group was
Nina Jacobson, who reported to
Dick Cook, Chairman of the
Walt Disney Studios. Cook, in turn, reports to
Robert (Bob) Iger, President/CEO of
The Walt Disney Company. Jacobson was fired by Cook in July of 2006, and replaced by Oren Aviv, the marketing chief of the studio.
In
2003,
Walt Disney Pictures made headlines as they made their first ever
PG-13 certificate film,
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a movie based on a
Disneyland attraction. Although Miramax, Touchstone, and other Disney-owned studios have made films with certificates as high as R, Walt Disney Pictures has always remained family-oriented, although
Pirates of the Caribbean is fairly mild.
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