Touchstone Pictures was an American film distribution studio and label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, created and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label are produced and financed by The Walt Disney Studios, and feature more mature themes targeted towards adult audiences, than those films released under the studio's flagship Walt Disney Pictures banner. As such, Touchstone is merely a pseudonym brand for the studio, and does not exist as a distinct business operation.
Established on February 15, 1984 by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller as Touchstone Films, Touchstone operated as an active film production division of Walt Disney Studios during the 1980s through the early 2010s, releasing a majority of the studio's PG-13 and R-rated films. In 2009, Disney entered into a five-year, thirty picture distribution deal with DreamWorks Pictures by which DreamWorks' productions would be released through the Touchstone banner. Touchstone then distributed DreamWorks' films from 2011 to 2016.
Films[]
- The Prestige (2006) (US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Newmarket Films, and Syncopy)
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