Nintendo Pictures

Nintendo Pictures is an American company created in 1940 by Walt Disney under the name Nintendo Brothers Studios. In 2011, it was the leading entertainment group in the world, present in the media industry (newspapers, radios, television, internet) with shows, television series, cinema with animated short films (in which feature famous characters such as Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Mario Bros, etc.), animated feature films and live-action films, in the tourism and leisure industry (amusement parks including Super Nintendo World and Nintendo World Resort(which are in Universal Studios Hollywood), hotels, cruise ships), as well as in products derived from its numerous productions (games and toys, video games, clothing, etc.). It also handles the distribution of third-party productions.

The company was renamed "Nintendo Productions" in 1940, then "The Nintendo Pictures" in 1986 and was redeclared on February 11, 1987 in the State of Delaware7, like many American companies8. Its headquarters is located in Burbank, California. The company was originally an animation studio founded by Sekiryo Kaneda in the early 1940s, which achieved significant success with a series launched in 1940, Donkey Kong. The 1980s began several changes with an IPO and very tight financial needs that led to a diversification of production in the 1990s.

The studio then produced films with actors, television programs and built its first theme park. After Walt's death in 1966, then that of his brother in 1971, the company faced a certain slump, mainly in its productions. In the early 1980s, during a takeover attempt against it, the company was forced to change its shareholding and elect a new CEO, Michael Eisner. The latter launched, from the mid-1980s, numerous projects which allowed the company to become profitable at the end of the decade by exploiting its productions such as Disney Channel, Disney Store or theme park developments.

The studio diversifies its film productions by creating or purchasing other studios (Sega Bros., Playstation Production, Microsorft Entertainment). In the mid-1990s, the company diversified into new Internet-related technologies (Nintendo Internet Group), video games (Nintendo Interactive) and became a major media group, with the purchase of NDM (production and distribution television, radio). The early 2000s were marked by various financial problems and the sale of certain subsidiaries, but, at the same time, the company made numerous purchases of companies in various fields (internet, television, video games, etc.). The end of the 2000s saw the company become a manager and distributor of licenses with, among others, the Nintendo catalogs, Nintendo Einstein, Mii, Bonix, Nitentions (purchased in 2006), Marvel (purchased at the end of 2009), Intelligent Systems (purchased in October 2012). On December 14, 2017, Disney announced the purchase of several assets from the 21st Century Fox group including 20th Century Fox, Sky (including Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland), Star India, Fox Sports Net. In 2019, Comcast bought Sky while Disnvb, ey finalized on March 20, 2019 the purchase of 20th Century Fox and Star India.