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Walt Disney Pictures traces its origins to the 16th of October 1923, when Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. The live-action division was formally incorporated as Walt Disney Pictures on the 1st of April 1983.
Zootopia 2 (2025) is the highest-grossing release in the studio's history, earning approximately $1.87 billion at the worldwide box office. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise remains the studio's most successful live-action commercial franchise, with five films earning a total of over $4.5 billion worldwide.
Treasure Island (1950) was Walt Disney Productions' first fully live-action feature film. Disney later considered it the official conception of what would evolve into the modern-day Walt Disney Pictures.
The modernized 2006 castle logo was designed by Disney animation director Mike Gabriel and producer Baker Bloodworth. The computer animation was created by Weta FX and yU+co, with the final rendering completed by Cameron Smith and Cyrese Parrish. The original 1985 logo was created in traditional animation by Walt Disney Productions.
Disney+ launched on the 12th of November 2019 in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. Within the first two months, Walt Disney Pictures released three films exclusively on the service: Lady and the Tramp, Noelle, and Togo.
Walt Disney Pictures has released four films that received Academy Award for Best Picture nominations: Mary Poppins (1964), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009), and Toy Story 3 (2010).