Disneynature

DisneyNature

Type	Subsidiary of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (Disney)
Industry	Film
Founded	April 21, 2008
Headquarters	Paris, France
Key people	Jean-Francois Camilleri,President
Products	Motion pictures
Owner(s)	The Walt Disney Company
Parent	Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Website	disney.com/nature

Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company, founded on April 21, 2008 as a division of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Its releases consist of feature film nature documentaries.

Background

Disney veteran Jean-Francois Camilleri, who has served as senior vice president and general manager for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France is the head the new unit. Disneynature is based in France, where Camilleri and his team oversees the initiation, development and acquisition of high quality feature projects.

The first film released domestically under the new label was the American version of Earth, from award-winning British producer/director Alastair Fothergill, whose credits include the landmark Planet Earth series for the BBC and The Discovery Channel and The Blue Planet. Earth, produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media and co-directed by Mark Linfield, was released in cinemas internationally in 2007. It premiered in the U.S. on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

The first new production to be released by Disneynature was announced to be The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos.^[1] The world premiere of the film took place in Bordeaux, France on October 26, 2008, and was released internationally throughout 2009.

On April 22, 2010, they released Oceans, a movie that shows the oceans in a new way. They also released the trailer for African Cats, which was released in the US on Earth Day 2011.

Disneynature is the official sponsor for the 2009 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival.

Films

Film	Year	Budget	Worldwide Gross	Production Studio	Release Date
Earth	2009	$43,000,000 (estimated)[2]	$108,975,160	Greenlight Media AG BBC Worldwide BBC Natural History Unit Gaumont Discovery Channel NHK	UK November 16, 2007 US April 22, 2009
Oceans	2010	$30,000,000 (estimated)	$82,651,439	France 3 Cinema France 2 Cinema GAGA Participant Media Canal+	UK November 6, 2009 US April 22, 2010
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos	2008			Kudos Pictures	UK September 25, 2009 US October 19, 2010
African Cats	2011		$16,031,171	Forum Hungary	UK October 21, 2011 US April 22, 2011
Pollen	2011			Blacklight Films	FR March 16, 2011

Announced projects

Among the other Disneynature projects currently in development or production are:

• Chimpanzee - Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield co-direct this intimate look at the world of chimpanzees, with Christophe Boesch, head of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, serving as principal consultant and Alix Tidmarsh as producer. To be shot over three years in the tropical jungles of the Ivory Coast and Uganda, Chimpanzee will help us better understand this exceptionally intelligent species. US release will be on April 22, 2012.

Disneynature logo

The logo of Disneynature is an iceberg that resembles Sleeping Beauty Castle.

The music for the Disneynature logo was composed by Mark Mancina who recorded his score at the Sony Scoring Stage on March 21, 2008 with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Don Harper.

See also

• True-Life Adventures - Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning nature film series, and the first nature film series produced by Disney.

External links

• Disneynature
• Disneynature International
• Scoring Session Photo Gallery at ScoringSessions.com
• Earth
• Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
• Oceans
• African Cats

References

1. ^ "Disney Launches New Film Label – Disneynature". Disneynature website. http://disney.go.com/disneynature//medias/img/Disneynature_Press_Release_08.pdf. Retrieved April 21, 2008. 
2. ^ About Earth at IMDb