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The most magical film studio in the world continues to delight all lovers of good fairy tales and incredible adventures. With the studio now also owning the film rights to Marvel Comics and the Star Wars franchise, Disney's future looks brighter than ever. Let's find out what the animation geniuses have planned for us over the next four years.

1. Zootopia

2. The Jungle Book

3. Finding Dory

4. And the storm came (The Finest Hours)

5. The Good Dinosaur

6. Gigantic

7. Cars 3

8. Doctor Strange

9. Moana

10. The Incredibles 2

11. Alice Through the Looking Glass

12. Thor: Ragnarok (Thor: Ragnarok)

13. Black Panther

14. Coco

15. Toy Story 4

16. Avengers Schism (Captain America: Civil War)

17. Captain Marvel

18. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

19. Pete's Dragon

20. Beauty and the Beast

21. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

22. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

23. Star Wars: Episode VIII and IX (Star Wars: Episode VIII)

24. Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

25. 4 unknown projects

The list includes films about superheroes, several masterpieces of animation, as well as films about intergalactic travel. The Incredibles sequel is set for June 2019. But “Cars 3” will be released two years earlier; the fourth part of “Toy Story” is expected less definitely - from June 2017 to June 2018. Frame: Walt Disney Pictures In addition, the Disney company announced the release of four “Fairy Tales from Disney” in the live action format* (Live Action is a film adaptation of a comic book or cartoon).

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures The animation "Zootopia" tells us about the talkative fox Nick Wilde, who is accused of a crime he did not commit. The comedy adventure cartoon directed by Byron Howard will be released in March 2016. It is known that singer Shakira will voice one of the roles in the cartoon.

Photo: Walt Disney Pictures Captain America: Civil War will feature almost every famous superhero. Look out for the Avengers on May 5, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures Carroll's fans already enjoyed Tim Burton's Alice Through the Looking Glass in 2010. In the new version of Alice Through the Looking Glass, Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp will return along with Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. This time, Alice will have to travel back in time to save the mad Hatter. "Alice Through the Looking Glass" will be released in theaters on May 27, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures The new cartoon "Finding Dory" will be a continuation of the famous Nemo. You can go on an underwater adventure from June 17, 2016.

Still: Walt Disney Pictures Pete's Dragon will be a new version of the 1977 animated film. Release date August 12, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures Benedict Cumberbatch will play the main role in the film Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is the story of a failed surgeon who is given a second chance. The film will be released on October 26, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures Moana will center around a girl who goes on an adventure to find a legendary island in the Pacific Ocean. Moana will be released on November 23, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures "Star Wars: Rogue One" is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Gareth Edwards, the first spin-off of the Star Wars film saga. The wide release is scheduled for December 16, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures There is still little information about what the second part of Guardians of the Galaxy will be like. It is known that the entire main cast will be there, including Chris Pratt. The sequel will be released on May 5, 2017.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures Disney will give us the live-action animation “Beauty and the Beast,” which will star Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor and others. Beauty and the Beast will be released on March 17, 2017.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures "The Jungle Book" will also be released in live-action format. The film will star Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong'o, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Christopher Walken. The film will be released on April 15, 2016.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures The sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales, follows Captain Jack Sparrow, who has run out of luck, and is hunted by the dreaded Captain Salazar and his phantom pirates. I am glad that after a long break we will again see Orlando Bloom in the image of a dashing pirate. The long-awaited premiere of "Pirates" will take place on July 7, 2017.

Frame: Walt Disney Pictures Coco tells the story of a 12-year-old Mexican boy who uncovers an old family secret on the Day of the Dead. "Coco" will be released on November 22, 2017.

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Then, in the 30s, there were frequent cases when foreign films and cartoons were shown without a distribution certificate. This is how Soviet audiences first saw Walt Disney's cartoon “The Skeleton Dance” in 1930.

Three years later, a recording of the melody from the Walt Disney cartoon “Three Little Pigs”, written and edited by Boris Morkovin, appeared on the shelves of music stores in the USSR. The record was released under the Russian title “We are not afraid of the gray wolf.” Later, the poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach wrote Russian text to Frank Churchill’s beautiful music. This is how the legendary song for the Soviet cartoon appeared.

In 1933, the first festival of American animation took place in Moscow, and Walt Disney's style for a long time became the standard for officials responsible for cinema in the USSR. The country's chief film critic, Joseph Stalin, became a big fan of this style. The slogan “Give us a Soviet Mickey Mouse!” was even formulated.

At the first Moscow International Film Festival in 1935, Disney's cartoons The Three Little Pigs, Peculiar Penguins and Mickey the Conductor (Band Concert) were highly praised and were awarded the third prize. The jury's decision noted that Walt Disney's films are examples of excellence due to their high painterly quality of color, graphic culture and exceptional musicality.

After the festival, Sergei Eisenstein wrote a letter of congratulations to Walt Disney and received a response, which included a drawing of Mickey Mouse with Walt's autograph. These documents are kept in the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow. Paying tribute to Disney, Eisenstein noted: “It seems that this man not only knows the magic of all technical means, but that he also knows all the innermost strings of human thoughts, images, thoughts, feelings. This is probably how the sermons of Francis of Assisi worked. This is how painting enchants. Fra Beato Angelico. He creates somewhere in the region of the purest and most primary depths. Where we are all children of nature. He creates at the level of ideas of a person who is not yet shackled by logic, rationality, experience. This is how butterflies create their flight. This is how they grow flowers. So the streams are surprised at their own running."

At the end of the festival, the cartoons were immediately released in the USSR. The distribution certificate was the same for all films, No. 6668 dated November 26, 1935. And already in the summer of 1936, an order was issued to create Soyuzdetmultfilm in the country, which was organized as an exact copy of the American Disney studio with conveyor production technology.

The years of World War II were not the most favorable for animation in the USSR and the USA. Nevertheless, in 1940, Walt Disney completed work on the cartoon “Fantasia,” which featured music by famous Russian composers P. I. Tchaikovsky and I. F. Stravinsky.

In 1944, the cartoons "The Führer's Face" were shown in the USSR, distribution certificate No. 953/44 dated February 23, 1944, and "The Old Mil" with distribution certificate No. 927/44 dated June 15, 1944 of the year. A year later, the cartoon “Bambi” was released in Soviet distribution, distribution certificate No. 926/45 dated June 9, 1945. This cartoon was given to the Allies in World War II by Walt Disney. For Soviet distribution, as an exception, all titles were translated into Russian at Walt Disney Studio in the USA, so Bambi was the only cartoon in Soviet distribution that had a Disney copyright.

Walt Disney paid great attention to music in his films. The 1946 film collection “Make Mine Music” included the cartoon “Peter and the Wolf” with music by Sergei Prokofiev. Shortly before its creation, during his trip to the USA, Prokofiev met with Disney, played for him the then unpublished play “Peter and the Wolf” and gave him the sheet music. Disney was unable to begin work on the film immediately. When the right moment came for this, Prokofiev had already left the United States. Then Walt turned to conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, a friend of Prokofiev and the head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and with his participation staged this cartoon.

The next Disney work that Soviet audiences became familiar with was the famous Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As a “trophy film” taken after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the film was shown in Soviet cinemas from 1955 to 1959 with distribution certificate No. 946/55 dated April 21, 1955.

Gradually the situation changed. At the Fourth Moscow International Film Festival in 1964, the Disney musical film Mary Poppins was shown, although outside the competition program. In 1968, the DETGIZ publishing house published the illustrated book “The Life and Tales of Walt Disney,” written by Edgar Mikhailovich Arnoldi. And one of the first creators of the famous Soviet animated series “Well, Just Wait!”, Sasha Dorogov, worked for the Disney studio and was directly involved in the creation of such masterpieces as “Pocahontas”, “Mulan”, “Lilo and Stitch” "(Lilo and Stitch) and others.

In the late 70s - early 80s, on the eve of the New Year celebrations, closed screenings were held in Ostankino, the so-called New Year's matinees, at which Father Frost and the Snow Maiden were absent, but old Walt Disney cartoons were shown for the lucky few.

The XV Moscow International Film Festival in 1987 changed a lot in the cultural life of the perestroika Soviet Union. Then Federico Fellini, Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni, Emir Kusturica came to Gorbachev’s Moscow, and Robert de Niro chaired the jury. Here, the Disney film has already participated in the competition program. “The Journey of Natty Gann” received the gold prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.

In 1988, celebrating his 60th birthday, Mickey Mouse made his first official visit to the Soviet Union and even danced with Misha the bear on Red Square. That same year, a Disney film festival was held, and Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, visited the USSR. Soviet animators, under the leadership of the famous director Fyodor Khitruk, created the film “Marathon” for Mickey’s 60th anniversary and showed it to Roy Disney. “Indeed, it was very accurately noted, in the last frames we hugged and could not hold back our tears... this is one of the most emotional moments in my life,” Roy commented on his impressions after watching “Marathon” with his colleagues at the Disney studio.

A year later, the Mickey Mouse magazine was published in the USSR, which has become a cult magazine today. This is a weekly comics magazine for children and teenagers, which is published in more than 50 countries around the world. Following the print press, Disney comes to television. Since 1991, the animated series “Chip and Dale to the Rescue”, “Gummi Bears”, “DuckTales”, “Miracles on Bends”, “Black Cape”, “Team Goofy” and many others.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Disney products began to occupy an increasingly significant place in the cultural and everyday life of Russians. In 1998, the ORT TV channel began broadcasting “DISNEY Club,” which to this day enjoys constant success among Russian children. In 1999, the Egmont Russia publishing house began publishing children's magazines under Disney licenses.

At the same time, the cartoon “Toy Story 2” was released worldwide. Russian viewers were able to share the delight of computer animation fans around the world in 2001, when the Russian premiere of the film took place. In 2002, The Walt Disney Company began producing a wide range of educational and entertaining multimedia video games in Russia for various gaming platforms and has not lost its leadership in this segment to this day.

In 2003, the premiere screening of the cartoon “The Lion King” took place in Russian cinemas. And two years later, the Cinderella Ball was organized for the first time at the State Kremlin Palace - a large 4-hour program, including two Disney Princess shows.

The Walt Disney Company CIS has opened an interactive portal for the whole family - disney.ru. On the new website, users will be able not only to continue communicating with Disney characters, but also to receive complete information about the history of the company and Disney products in Russia and around the world.

Mickey Mouse, born 1928

Mickey Mouse became a replacement for another cartoon character, Oswald the Rabbit. Disney came up with it while he was still at Universals Pictures, but lost the copyright to it. According to the recollections of colleagues, the artist initially thought of drawing either a kitten or a frog. But he chose a mouse, since there were many rodents living in his studio.

Oswald Rabbit is a distant “relative” of Mickey Mouse

It is noteworthy that Walt Disney initially wanted to name the mouse not Mickey, but Mortemir. However, his wife convinced him that it did not sound like that. However, a character with that name still appeared in the Disney universe. He is the complete opposite of the kind and sympathetic Mickey. Walt Disney himself voiced Mickey. Mickey Mouse first appeared on screens in the cartoon “Steamboat Willie.” This character appears from the very first minutes:

Donald Duck, born 1934

Walt Disney wanted to create a character that would incorporate several negative qualities that Mickey lacked. And besides, children really liked the duck as a toy. And Clarence Nash, an American voice actor, became the official voice of Duck. He was one of the few who could reproduce that very duck voice.

Donald Duck also “participated” in World War II as the hero of a propaganda cartoon that parodied Nazism. In the cartoon "The Fuhrer's Face" a duck salutes portraits of Hitler. Donald Duck makes his debut in the short film "The Wise Little Hen":

Like Mickey Mouse, Donald has his own soulmate - this is Daisy Duck, who appeared in 1940. Minnie Mouse came out at the same time as Mickey.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, born 1937

One day, Walt Disney as a child saw a cartoon about Snow White without sound and was delighted. In 1934, when the artist had long grown up, he began work on a full-length cartoon based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. In 1937, the premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs took place. This picture was a huge success. Disney liked working with fairy tales, and in 1940 the second full-length film, Pinocchio, was released, based on the work of Carlo Collodi. And Snow White became the first in a series of cartoons about princesses. Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and many other films will be released next.

Excerpt from the cartoon “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”:

Bambi, born 1942

The cartoon "Bambi" is considered Walt Disney's most beloved creation and the best cartoon of his studio in general. He was even nominated in several Oscar categories. However, the fawn was not invented by Disney. Bambi is the hero of the novel of the same name by the Austrian writer Felix Salten. The film adaptation of the book became incredibly successful. And the book itself sold out in huge numbers, and was well received by critics.

Walt Disney sketches little deer to create the Bambi American cartoon trailer.

This is where that very popular book appears: