Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill , written by David L. Watts, James Greer , Jonathan Bernstein and Mark Blackwell and starring Alex D. Linz , Larry Miller , Jamie Kennedy , Nora Dunn , and Robert Carradine . The plot follows the eponymous Max and his friends, who begin going to junior high school only to learn Max and his family will soon move elsewhere; Max resolves to get even with those who bully him and his friends before he leaves since he will not remain long enough to face discipline for anything he does.
47-491: The film was released in the United States on October 5, 2001, by Walt Disney Pictures . It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb that grossed $ 18 million against its $ 25 million budget. Max Keeble is a paperboy who starts his first day of middle school. Max is antagonized by the corrupt megalomaniacal and tyrannical school principal, Elliot T. Jindrake, resident school bullies Troy McGinty and Dobbs, and
94-526: A few animated films such as Brother Bear , the 2003 re-release of The Lion King and The Wild (the final film to use this logo) used this logo. In 2006, the studio's vanity card logo was updated with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at the behest of then-Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook and studio marketing president Oren Aviv. Designed by Disney animation director Mike Gabriel and producer Baker Bloodworth,
141-440: A majority of the smaller genre films were becoming financially unsustainable in the theatrical market. By July 2016, Disney had announced development of nearly eighteen films consisting of sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels. In 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced it was creating its own streaming service platform. The new service, known as Disney+ , would feature original programming created by
188-444: A normalized rating, the film has a score 40 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios , a division of Disney Entertainment , which is owned by The Walt Disney Company . The studio
235-466: A traditional production logo , the opening credits of Disney films used to feature a title card that read "Walt Disney Presents", and later, "Walt Disney Productions Presents". Beginning with the release of Return to Oz in 1985, Walt Disney Pictures introduced its fantasy castle logo. The version with its accompanying music premiered with The Black Cauldron . The logo was created by Walt Disney Productions in traditional animation and featured
282-579: A variety of pranks, which include traumatizing Troy by playing the main theme song of the children's television show MacGoogles the Highlander Frog (which frightened him as a child), then trapping him in the gym with someone wearing a MacGoogles costume; instigating a fight between Dobbs and the Evil Ice Cream Man by stealing the coolant coil for the ice cream truck and Dobbs's handheld device ; and ruining Jindrake's chances of becoming successor to
329-458: A white silhouette of Disneyland 's Sleeping Beauty Castle against a blue background, with the studio's name in Walt Disney’s signature style and underscored by " When You Wish Upon a Star ", in arrangement composed by John Debney . A short rendition of the logo was used as a closing logo as well as in the movie Return to Oz , although the film was released months before The Black Cauldron
376-508: A whole. That same year, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny marked the studio's first official co-production with Lucasfilm. On February 26, 2024, Disney announced a leadership change, with Bailey stepping down as president and replaced by David Greenbaum, who formerly co-led Searchlight Pictures . Greenbaum will lead Walt Disney Pictures and co-lead 20th Century Studios with current 20th Century president Steve Asbell. Until 1983, instead of
423-450: Is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation . Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film . Live action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. Photorealistic animation, particularly modern computer animation , is sometimes erroneously described as "live action", as in the case of some media reports about Disney's remake of
470-589: Is currently one of five live-action film studios within the Walt Disney Studios, alongside Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm , 20th Century Studios , and Searchlight Pictures . Inside Out 2 is the studio's highest-grossing release overall with $ 1.6 billion, and Pirates of the Caribbean is the studio's most successful commercial film series , with five films earning a total of over $ 4.5 billion in worldwide box office gross. The studio's predecessor (and
517-465: Is sorry for what happened. Taking Max's earlier advice to heart, Donald announces that he quit his job and started his own business, meaning that Max is not moving after all. Max freaks out at this news, and learns that other students at his school are suffering because of his actions. Max confronts Jindrake, Troy, and Dobbs one final time, and with the help of other students at his school, Max eventually defeats Troy and Dobbs for good by throwing them into
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#1732883430653564-570: Is the flagship producer of live-action feature films and animation within the Walt Disney Studios unit, and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California . Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Disney began producing live-action films in
611-799: The Cinderella Castle and the Sleeping Beauty Castle, as well as fireworks and Walt Disney 's family crest on the flag. Mark Mancina wrote a new composition and arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany the 2006 logo. It was co-arranged and orchestrated by David Metzger . In 2011, starting with The Muppets , the sequence was modified to truncate the "Walt Disney Pictures" branding to "Disney", which has mainly been used originally in home media releases in 2007. The new logo sequence has been consistently modified for high-profile releases including Tron: Legacy , Maleficent , Tomorrowland , The Jungle Book , and Beauty and
658-514: The traditionally animated The Lion King from 1994. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary , live action involves "real people or animals, not models, or images that are drawn, or produced by computer". As the normal process of making visual media involves live action, the term itself is usually superfluous. However, it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, such as when
705-772: The "Theatrical | Film: Design" medium at the 2023 Clio Entertainment Awards in November 2023. The standard version was unveiled on the "Disney" hub of the Disney+ app on December 23, 2023 and made its official debut in 2024 on the second trailer for Inside Out 2 , with the full version premiering on the documentary film The Beach Boys . The studio's first live-action film was Treasure Island (1950). Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar are also released by Walt Disney Pictures. The studio has released four films that have received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination: Mary Poppins (1964), Beauty and
752-474: The "real" actors, such as Michael Jordan , Bob Hoskins and Julie Andrews , as opposed to the animated "actors", such as Roger and Jessica Rabbit . As use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in films has become a major trend, some critics, such as Mark Langer, have discussed the relationship between live action and animation. New films that use computer-generated special-effects can not be compared to live-action films using cartoon characters because of
799-510: The 1930s, culminating with the 1937 release of the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , which becomes a huge financial success. With the profits from Snow White , Walt relocated to a third studio in Burbank, California . In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and Song of
846-412: The 1950s. The live-action division became Walt Disney Pictures in 1983, when Disney reorganized its entire studio division; which included the separation from the feature animation division and the subsequent creation of Touchstone Pictures . At the end of that decade, combined with Touchstone's output, Walt Disney Pictures elevated Disney to one of Hollywood 's major film studios . Walt Disney Pictures
893-918: The Beast (1991), Up (2009), and Toy Story 3 (2010). Walt Disney Pictures has produced five live-action films that have grossed over $ 1 billion at the worldwide box office: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Aladdin (2019); and has released nine animated films that have reached that milestone: Toy Story 3 (2010), Frozen (2013), Zootopia , Finding Dory (both 2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), Toy Story 4 , The Lion King , Frozen II (three in 2019), and Inside Out 2 (2024). —Includes theatrical reissue(s). Live action Live action
940-439: The Beast . In 2022, a new vanity card logo was introduced for the studio's 100th anniversary in 2023, which premiered at the 2022 D23 Expo . The new castle logo features an updated opening sequence in computer animation created by Industrial Light & Magic and an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" composed by Christophe Beck and conducted by Tim Davies . The magical arc that usually flies from right to left above
987-528: The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (both 2003). The latter film—the first film produced by the studio to receive a PG-13 rating —began a film series that was followed by four sequels, with the franchise taking in more than $ 5.4 billion worldwide from 2003 to 2017. On January 12, 2010, Aviv stepped down as the studio's president of live-action production. In January 2010, Sean Bailey
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#17328834306531034-488: The Evil Ice Cream Man. Max also learns that an animal shelter he visits next door to the school is being closed down to build Jindrake's opulent football stadium. When Max's father, Donald, reveals that he is moving to Chicago for his boss, because he is unable to stand up for himself, Max realizes that he can do whatever he wants to his tormentors, facing no consequences because he will be gone by then. Enlisting his equally socially outcast friends, Robe and Megan, Max sets up
1081-453: The Seven Dwarfs , The Little Mermaid , Tangled , Brave and Beauty and the Beast , with the addition of Disneyland's Matterhorn from Third Man on the Mountain and Pride Rock from The Lion King in the background beyond the castle. Its first film appearance was with the release of Strange World . The logo received widespread praise from critics and audiences and won Gold in
1128-568: The South (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of Seal Island (1948), the first of the True-Life Adventures series and a subsequent Academy Award winner for Best Live-Action Short Film . Walt Disney Productions had its first fully live-action film in 1950 with the release of Treasure Island , considered by Disney to be the official conception for what would eventually evolve into
1175-748: The Tramp , Noelle , and Togo ) exclusively for Disney+. On March 12, 2020, 20th Century Family president Vanessa Morrison was named president of live-action development and production of streaming content for both Disney and 20th Century Studios , reporting directly to Bailey. That same day, Philip Steuer and Randi Hiller were also appointed as president of the studio's physical, post-production and VFX, and executive vice president for casting, respectively–overseeing these functions for both Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios. In 2023, Walt Disney Pictures celebrated its centennial alongside Walt Disney Animation Studios and their corporate parent company as
1222-543: The United States and Canada and $ 1.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 18.6 million, against a production budget of $ 25 million. The film grossed $ 5.4 million in its opening weekend, finishing 7th at the box office. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , Max Keeble's Big Move has an approval rating of 29% based on 56 reviews, and an average rating of 4.31/10. The site's critical consensus reads: " Max Keeble may be fun for kids, but bland and unoriginal for adults." On Metacritic , which assigns
1269-561: The castle now flies from left to right. A byline appeared below the Disney100 logo during the studio's 100th anniversary in 2023, reading "100 Years of Wonder", which was later removed starting with Chang Can Dunk but returned with the international prints of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in theaters. While containing the same visual references as the previous logo, new references added to it include Pocahontas , Up , Hercules , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Snow White and
1316-430: The commercial success of Alice in Wonderland (2010), that became the second billion-dollar-grossing film in the studio's history. With the continued success of Maleficent (2014) and Cinderella (2015), the studio saw the potential in these fantasy adaptations and officiated a trend of similar films , which followed with The Jungle Book (2016) and Beauty and the Beast (2017). In March 2015, Iger expanded
1363-435: The company's vast array of film and television production studios, including Walt Disney Pictures. As part of this new distribution platform, Bailey and Horn confirmed that Walt Disney Pictures would renew development on smaller-budgeted genre films that the studio had previously stopped producing for the theatrical exhibition market a few years prior. In 2018, nine films were announced to be in production or development for
1410-502: The company, and Jacobson was appointed by Roth to the role of president of production. During her tenure, Jacobson oversaw the production of films at Walt Disney Pictures, including Pirates of the Caribbean , The Chronicles of Narnia , Bridge to Terabithia , National Treasure , Remember the Titans , and The Princess Diaries , and was responsible for establishing a first-look deal with Jerry Bruckheimer Films . In 2006, Jacobson
1457-434: The current superintendent, Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth (an alumnus who was a star football player for the school) by planting animal pheromones within his breath spray, instigating a food fight in the cafeteria in view of Superintendent Knebworth, and later by sabotaging his TV announcements by placing a cardboard cutout of Max mocking him. After Max’s missions are completed, Jinkdrake, Troy and Dobbs somehow find out that Max
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1504-495: The dumpster with his schoolmates' help and stops Jindrake from demolishing the animal shelter. Jindrake is dismissed and facing criminal charges for manipulating the school budget in order to build his stadium after Max tricked him into publicly admitting to his crimes earlier. The film ends when Max rides on his bicycle delivering newspapers around his neighborhood, and the Evil Ice Cream Man starts pursuing him once again. Cameos Max Keeble's Big Move grossed $ 17.3 million in
1551-649: The head of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, the newly formed division that oversaw all live-action production within the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, and Hollywood labels. The move was orchestrated by Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth , as an effort to scale back and consolidate the studio's film production. As a result of the restructuring, De Line resigned. That same year, Nina Jacobson became executive vice-president of live-action production for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group. Jacobson remained under this title until May 1999, when Vogel resigned from
1598-610: The modern-day The Walt Disney Company's as a whole) was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio , by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy , in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926. In 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions . The studio's streak of success continued in
1645-536: The modern-day Walt Disney Pictures. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution . By the 1950s, the company had purchased the rights to his work of L. Frank Baum . The live-action division of Walt Disney Productions was incorporated as Walt Disney Pictures on April 1, 1983, to diversify film subjects and expand audiences for their film releases. In April 1983, Richard Berger
1692-399: The modernized logo was created completely in computer animation by Wētā FX and yU+co and featured a 3D Walt Disney logo. The final rendering of the logo was done by Cameron Smith and Cyrese Parrish. In addition, the revamped logo includes visual references to Pinocchio , Dumbo , Cinderella , Peter Pan and Mary Poppins , and its redesigned castle incorporates elements from both
1739-528: The service. These films would be budgeted between $ 20 million and $ 60 million. The studio was expected to produce approximately 3–4 films per year exclusively for Disney+, alongside its theatrical tentpole slate. Disney+ was launched on November 12, 2019, in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, with subsequent international expansions. Within the first two months of the service's launch, Walt Disney Pictures had released three films ( Lady and
1786-552: The studio simplified the branding in its production logo and marquee credits to just "Disney". Concurrently, Disney was struggling with PG-13 tentpole films outside of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, with films such as John Carter (2012) and The Lone Ranger (2013) becoming some of the biggest box-office bombs of all time . However, the studio had found particular success with live-action fantasy adaptations of properties associated with their animated films , which began with
1833-526: The studio's smoking and tobacco prohibition to include all films released by the studio—including PG-13 rated films and below—unless such depictions are historically pertinent. Despite the acclaim and commercial success of several smaller-budgeted genre films throughout the 2010s, such as The Muppets (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Into the Woods (2014), Walt Disney Pictures shifted its production model entirely on tent-pole films as they had found that
1880-452: The work is adapted from a video game , or from an animated cartoon . The phrase "live action" also occurs within an animation context to refer to non-animated characters: in a live-action/animated film such as Space Jam , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Looney Tunes: Back in Action , or Mary Poppins in which humans and cartoons co-exist. In this case, the "live-action" characters are
1927-414: Was appointed as Walt Disney Pictures president. The following year, however Hoberman resigned from the company, and instead began a production deal with Disney and his newly formed production company, Mandeville Films . In addition to Walt Disney Pictures, Vogel added the head position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, while Donald De Line remained as head of Touchstone. Vogel was then promoted in 1998 to
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1974-453: Was appointed the studio's president of live-action production, replacing Aviv. Bailey had produced Tron: Legacy for the studio, which was released later that same year. Under Bailey's leadership and with support from then Disney CEO Bob Iger —and later studio chairman Alan Horn —Walt Disney Pictures pursued a tent-pole film strategy, which included an expanded slate of original and adaptive large-budget tentpole films. Beginning in 2011,
2021-452: Was behind all the pranks he pulled off. Later, Max ends up ditching Robe and Megan's going-away party by accepting an invitation to a milkshake party hosted by his crush Jenna, causing a falling-out. Robe tells Max how Megan really feels about him , and then walks away telling Max that he hopes he enjoys his new life in Chicago. Max then calls Megan's house, telling her mom to relay to her that he
2068-438: Was fired by studio chairman Dick Cook , and replaced with by Oren Aviv, the head of marketing. In July 2007, Disney CEO Bob Iger banned the depiction of smoking and tobacco products from Walt Disney Pictures films. After two films based on Disney theme park attractions, Walt Disney Pictures selected it as a source of a line of films starting with The Country Bears (2002) and The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of
2115-694: Was hired by Disney CEO Ron W. Miller as film president. Touchstone Films was started by Miller in February 1984 as a label for the studio's PG-13 and R-rated films with an expected half of Disney's yearly 6-to-8-movie slate, which would be released under the label. That same year, newly named Disney CEO Michael Eisner pushed out Berger, replacing him with Eisner's own film chief from Paramount Pictures , Jeffrey Katzenberg . and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. Pictures . Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures were formed within that unit on February 15, 1984, and February 1, 1989, respectively. The Touchstone Films banner
2162-467: Was released. An animated RenderMan variant appeared before every Pixar Animation Studios film from Toy Story until Ratatouille , featuring an original fanfare composed by Randy Newman , based on the opening score cue from Toy Story , called "Andy's Birthday". Beginning with Dinosaur (2000), an alternative logo featuring an orange castle and logo against a black background, was occasionally presented with darker tone and live-action films, though
2209-521: Was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–1985 television season with the short lived western, Wildside . In the next season, Touchstone produced a hit in The Golden Girls . David Hoberman was promoted to president of production at Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion picture production at Walt Disney Studios and David Vogel
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