Disney

                                Disney


Disney is a massive media conglomerate and is the largest company under the Walt Disney corporation, they were founded by Walt Disney in 1923 and began with short animations and characters like Steam Boat Mickey and Oswald the lucky rabbit.

They are a gigantic corporation owning a significant amount of the biggest television presence in the U.S. They are the owners of: ABC, ESPN, Lucasfilm, FOX, The History Channel, Marvel, Pixar and Lifetime just to name some of the biggest.

Disney in fact owns 36% of  of the US/CA film market. a total of $60bn in revenue as of 2018

The biggest film that Disney ever produced was avengers endgame grossing around $2.8bn at the box office

However its biggest flop was Mars Needs Moms grossing only $36 million 


With the introduction of Disney plus, Disney is attempting to launch itself into a new market in streaming

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