The Walt Disney Studios is the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built more than eighty-five years ago. Today, the Studios includes four different lines of business: movies, home entertainment, music and stage plays.

The Walt Disney Studios produces and distributes motion pictures under the following banners: Walt Disney Pictures (which includes live-action movies, animated feature films from Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, and performance capture films from ImageMovers Digital), Miramax, Disneynature, as well as Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International serves as the Studio's international distribution arm.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes Disney and other film titles to the rental and sell-through home entertainment markets.

Disney Music Group distributes original music and motion picture soundtracks under its record labels: Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records and Lyric Street Records.

Disney Theatrical Group is among the world's most successful commercial theatre enterprises, producing or licensing live entertainment events that reach a global annual audience of more than 20 million people in more than 40 countries.