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Disney’s Hits and Company History Disney’s Hits and Company History
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Disney and Hollywood’s Global Hits Disney and Hollywood’s Global Hits
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27 The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Hollywood’s Global Hits
Get accessPeter Krämer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema and TV in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). He also is a Senior Fellow in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). He is the author or editor of eleven academic books, including the BFI Film Classics 2001: A Space Odyssey (2nd ed., 2020) and The General (2016), as well as “Grease Is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon, co-edited with Oliver Gruner (Anthem, 2020), and United Artists, co-edited with Gary Needham, Yannis Tzioumakis, and Tino Balio (Routledge, 2020).
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Published:20 April 2022
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Abstract
In 2016, Disney releases occupied the five top spots on the annual worldwide box-office chart, with Captain America: Civil War, the latest instalment of Marvel’s Avengers franchise; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; the Pixar sequel Finding Dory; Zootopia, a rare original script filmed by the revived Walt Disney Animation Studios; and a live-action remake of The Jungle Book. Although Disney has since the 1980s had several adult-oriented global hits, the 2016 chart toppers were closely aligned with the company’s traditional emphasis on family entertainment. This chapter charts the rise of the Walt Disney Company to global box-office dominance, paying particular attention to the takeovers of Pixar Animation Studios (in 2006), Marvel Entertainment (in 2009), and Lucasfilm Ltd. (in 2012). It also surveys the prevalence of family oriented global hits released by the other major Hollywood studios, examines the special place of Star Wars (1977) in evolving hit patterns, and highlights several key thematic concerns of Hollywood’s biggest hits (both Disney and non-Disney): parent-child relationships, the threat and reality of large-scale destruction, and internationalism.
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