Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured more mature themes targeted at adult audiences than typical Walt Disney Pictures films. As such, Touchstone was merely a pseudonym label for the studio and did not exist as a distinct business operation.

This article is about the feature film label. For the television production company formerly named Touchstone Television, see ABC Signature. For the television production company formerly named Fox 21 Television Studios, see Touchstone Television.

Touchstone Pictures
FormerlyTouchstone Films (1984–1986)
Company typeLabel
IndustryFilm industry
FoundedFebruary 15, 1984 (1984-02-15)
FounderRon W. Miller
DefunctSeptember 2, 2016 (2016-09-02)
FateInactive
Headquarters500 South Buena Vista Street,
Burbank, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Sean Bailey (2010–2016)
ProductsMotion pictures
OwnerThe Walt Disney Company
ParentWalt Disney Studios
DivisionsTouchstone Home Entertainment

Established on February 15, 1984, by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller as Touchstone Films, Touchstone operated as an active film production division of Disney 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 under which DreamWorks' productions would be released through the Touchstone banner; the label then distributed DreamWorks' films from 2011 to 2016. Following the release of The Light Between Oceans, the final film of the DreamWorks deal, the Touchstone label became defunct.

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