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Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group
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Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Inc.[1] (doing business as Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group) is a collection of affiliated production companies and imprints, all of them being the property of The Walt Disney Company. It includes:
- Walt Disney Pictures and Television (Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures & Hollywood Pictures)
- Miramax Films
- Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Pixar Animation Studios
The Group was created in 1998 by then Studio Chairman Joe Roth in order to centralize the various production units and to make live-action film production within Disney more cost-efficient. 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.
The 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.
In 2003, headlines were made as the first ever PG-13 certificate film was released under the Walt Disney Pictures imprint - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a movie based on the famous Disneyland attraction. Although non-Disney branded imprints and divisions of the studio have released films with certificates as high as R (the first being Down and Out in Beverly Hills in 1986), Walt Disney Pictures has always remained family-oriented, although Pirates of the Caribbean is fairly mild.
While Disney has owned Miramax since the mid-1990s, until 2005 it was run separately from the rest of the Disney companies by Miramax's founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein. When the Weinstein brothers left Disney in 2005 to form the Weinstein Company, Miramax was merged with the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.
