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{{Infobox company | {{Infobox company | ||
| name = Touchstone Pictures | | name = Touchstone Pictures | ||
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| defunct = 2016 ({{Age|2016|1|1}} years ago) | | defunct = 2016 ({{Age|2016|1|1}} years ago) | ||
| fate = Inactive | | fate = Inactive | ||
| parent = [[Walt Disney Studios]]<br>([[The Walt Disney Company]]) | | parent = [[Walt Disney Studios|The Walt Disney Studios]]<br>([[The Walt Disney Company]]) | ||
}} | }} | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''Touchstone Pictures''' (formerly '''Touchstone Films''') was established by [[The Walt Disney Company | '''Touchstone Pictures''' (formerly '''Touchstone Films''') was established by [[Walt Disney Productions]] (now [[The Walt Disney Company]]) on February 15, 1984 to produce and distribute more adult-oriented films. The company became a dominant force from its establishment in the 1980s until the early 2000s, releasing several successful films such as ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', ''The Color of Money'', ''Three Men and a Baby'', ''Adventures in Babysitting'', ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', ''Con Air'', ''Unbreakable'', and ''Signs'', among others. However, the company began a slow decline in 2003 with the success of ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' as the first PG-13 film released under the mainline [[Walt Disney Pictures]] banner. The label became relegated to R-rated and PG and PG-13 fare that didn't fit the mainline banner as a result. | ||
Two huge blows were dealt to the company in 2009: first, then-new Disney chairman Rich Ross trimmed the number of films Disney released in a year to eight. This business plan resulted in planned sequels for Touchstone hits being cancelled, and many more flops to come for Disney in general (Ross left after the failures of ''John Carter'' and ''Mars Needs Moms''); the last Touchstone film released solo, without distributing for others, was ''You Again''. Meanwhile, Disney eventually stopped producing adult-oriented but family-friendly films after ''Old Dogs'' flopped with critics (though it did reasonably well at the box office). After all this, Touchstone began merely distributing films for [[Lucasfilm Ltd.|Lucasfilm]], [[Miramax Films|Miramax]], and [[DreamWorks Pictures]] (except the EMEA region and India), as well as foreign films and titles Disney didn't see value in. It didn't help either that Disney was beginning to release their Marvel and ''Star Wars'' films under the respective [[Marvel Studios]] and Lucasfilm brands. The final blow came with the critical and commercial failure of ''Strange Magic'', with them only distributing ''Bridge of Spies'' and ''The Light Between Oceans'' since then, the latter ultimately being the company's final film. | Two huge blows were dealt to the company in 2009: first, then-new Disney chairman Rich Ross trimmed the number of films Disney released in a year to eight. This business plan resulted in planned sequels for Touchstone hits being cancelled, and many more flops to come for Disney in general (Ross left after the failures of ''John Carter'' and ''Mars Needs Moms''); the last Touchstone film released solo, without distributing for others, was ''You Again''. Meanwhile, Disney eventually stopped producing adult-oriented but family-friendly films after ''Old Dogs'' flopped with critics (though it did reasonably well at the box office). After all this, Touchstone began merely distributing films for [[Lucasfilm Ltd.|Lucasfilm]], [[Miramax Films|Miramax]], and [[DreamWorks Pictures]] (except the EMEA region and India), as well as foreign films and titles Disney didn't see value in. It didn't help either that Disney was beginning to release their Marvel and ''Star Wars'' films under the respective [[Marvel Studios]] and Lucasfilm brands. The final blow came with the critical and commercial failure of ''Strange Magic'', with them only distributing ''Bridge of Spies'' and ''The Light Between Oceans'' since then, the latter ultimately being the company's final film. | ||