Disney
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS)
MPAA member company:
yes
Film labels:
Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, Fox, Touchstone
Other holdings:
ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, A&E, TV/radio stations, cruise line, theme parks worldwide. In December 2017, Disney announced it will acquire 20th Century Fox studio and other 21st Century Fox entertainment divisions.
Top executive:
Chairman Robert Iger
Summary:
In 2019, Disney led the industry with 40 percent of ticket sales. The company's tobacco content started to drop in 2005, after Disney adopted a policy "discouraging" tobacco in its movies and sold its chain-smoking Miramax division. In 2015, Disney strengthened its policy, pledging that no cigarettes will appear in kid-rated films from Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar. However, Disney's purchase of Fox studio assets in March 2019 made "smokefree" Disney one of today's smokiest media companies. That poses a challenge not only for future productions under the Twentieth Century Studio and Searchlight banners, but when flogging Fox films on Disney's Hulu streamer.
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| 25% | 80% | 10 | 39 | 5,922 | 1,649 | 0 | ||
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| 22% | 87% | 9 | 27 | 23,119 | 9,041 | 1 | ||
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