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Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Previously, Touchstone operated as an active film production banner of The Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Established on February 15, 1984〔 by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller as Touchstone Films, it typically releases films targeted to adult audiences with more mature themes and darker tones than those released under the flagship Walt Disney Pictures label. Touchstone Pictures is merely a brand, not a distinct business operation, and does not exist as a separate company.〔(Letter signed by ) Thomas O. Staggs (Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, The Walt Disney Company) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, March 1, 2007. Retrieved on May 6, 2013.〕 Their most commercially successful production partners in later years have been Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Caravan Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Icon Productions, Imagine Entertainment, Mandeville Films, Focus Features, Spyglass Entertainment, and DreamWorks Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures entered into a long-term, 30-picture distribution deal with DreamWorks Pictures by which DreamWorks' productions would be released through the Touchstone Pictures banner over seven years beginning in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cdn.media.ir.thewaltdisneycompany.com/2011/annual/WDC-10kwrap-2011.pdf ) Page 12〕〔(Variety: Disney signs deal with DreamWorks; Company will handle distribution for films ), ''Variety'', February 9, 2009〕 The deal is set to end in 2016. ==Background== Taste for older children had shifted and teens began to shun G-rated films. Due to increased public assumption that Disney films were aimed at children, films produced by the Walt Disney Productions began to falter at the box office as a result. In late 1979, Disney Productions released ''The Black Hole'', a science-fiction movie that was the studio's first production to receive a PG rating (the company, however, had already distributed its first PG-rated film, ''Take Down''—without the Disney moniker visible—almost a year before the release of ''The Black Hole''). Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, such as the 1981 film ''Condorman''. With Disney's 1982 slate of PG-rated films—including the horror-mystery ''The Watcher in the Woods'', the thriller drama ''Night Crossing'', and the science-fiction film ''Tron''—the company lost over $27 million. ''Tron'' was considered a potential ''Star Wars-''level success film by the film division. A loss of $33 million was registered by the film division in 1983 with the majority resulting from ''Something Wicked This Way Comes'', a horror-fantasy adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel. ''Never Cry Wolf'', a 1983 PG release did well as the studio downplayed the film's association with the Disney brand.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Touchstone Pictures」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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