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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as simplyDisney, is an American multinationalmass media andentertainmentconglomerate headquartered at theWalt Disney Studios complex inBurbank, California. Founded on October 16, 1923, as ananimation studio by brothersWalt Disney andRoy Oliver Disney asDisney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Disney operated under the namesWalt Disney Studio andWalt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in theanimation industry with the short filmSteamboat Willie. The film usedsynchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularizedMickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon.
After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, andtheme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, began to decline. In 1984, Disney's shareholders votedMichael Eisner as CEO, who led a reversal of the company's decline through a combination of international theme park expansion and the highly successfulDisney Renaissance period of animation from 1989 to 1999. In 2005, under the new CEOBob Iger, the company continued to expand into a major entertainment conglomerate with the acquisitions ofPixar in 2006,Marvel Entertainment in 2009,Lucasfilm in 2012, and21st Century Fox in2019. In 2020,Bob Chapek became the head of Disney after Iger's retirement. However, Chapek was ousted in 2022 and Iger was reinstated as CEO.
Disney operates the largest television and film studio inHollywood.Walt Disney Studios includesWalt Disney Pictures,Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar,Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm,20th Century Studios,20th Century Animation, andSearchlight Pictures. Disney's other main business units include divisions operating theABC television network; cable television networks such asDisney Channel,ESPN,Freeform,FX, andNational Geographic; publishing, merchandising, music, and theater divisions;direct-to-consumer streaming services such asDisney+,ESPN+,Hulu, andHotstar; andDisney Experiences, which includes several theme parks, resort hotels, andcruise lines around the world. (Full article...)
Elizabeth Olsen andPaul Bettany reprise their respective roles as Maximoff and Vision from the film series, withDebra Jo Rupp,Fred Melamed,Kathryn Hahn,Teyonah Parris,Randall Park,Kat Dennings, andEvan Peters also starring. By September 2018, Marvel Studios was developing a number of limited series for Disney+ centered on supporting characters from the MCU films such as Maximoff and Vision, with Olsen and Bettany returning. Schaeffer was hired in January 2019, with the series officially announced that April, and Shakman joining in August. The production used era-appropriate sets, costumes, and effects to recreate the different sitcom styles that the series pays homage to. Filming began inAtlanta, Georgia, in November 2019, before production halted in March 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed in Los Angeles in September 2020 and wrapped that November.
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One of Iwerks' most long-lasting contributions to animation was a refined version of a sketch drawn by Disney that would later go on to becomeMickey Mouse. Iwerks went on to do much of the animation for the early Mickey Mouse andSilly Symphonies cartoons, includingSteamboat Willie,The Skeleton Dance andThe Haunted House, before a fallout with Disney led to Iwerks' resignation from the studio in January 1930. Iwerks' finalMickey Mouse cartoon would be 1930'sThe Cactus Kid. Following his separation with Disney, Iwerks, operating underIwerks Studio, would go on to create the charactersFlip the Frog andWillie Whopper along with theComiColor Cartoons series as part of a contract withMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but the new studio failed to rival its competitors. Iwerks would go on to direct twoLooney Tunes cartoon shorts forLeon Schlesinger Productions and severalColor Rhapsody cartoons forScreen Gems before joining Disney again in 1940, after which he worked with special visual effects on productions such as 1946'sSong of the South.
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