Do You Know How Much Money Disney Spends On Their Content?

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Disney is one of the biggest, maybe even the biggest company in Hollywood. When late Walt Disney founded the company back in 1923, if someone told him back then where would his company be almost 100 years later, we’re pretty certain he wouldn’t believe them.

“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

Walt Disney, 1954

Although the company was formally founded a few years before Mickey Mouse debuted, it’s still almost unbelievable that Disney, the media conglomerate that it is today, started with a simple drawing of a mouse that Walt Disney drew in the train. Today, his company owns the biggest movie franchise of all time – Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as legendary franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019, Disney also brought Avatar, Alien, and several more franchises under their umbrella. Not to mention all the animated movies in which the global audience has been enjoying since 1937 when the first animated movie – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs first appeared.

Disney is spending billions of dollars on their content and marketing every year, but it’s a good thing for them that every dime they throw in turns out to be worth it. In 2019, Disney launched their own streaming service Disney+, which counts around 120 million users globally, and there are still countries where the service is not available yet.

Did you ever wonder how much money Disney throws in for everything they offer us? Well, according to The Wrap, Disney is planning to spend $33 billion in the actual fiscal year, which started on October 1st. That’s $8 billion more than they spent in the last fiscal year. Disney’s plan reportedly includes 50 titles to be released, covering both theatrical and streaming releases.

Disney is more powerful than ever, and the amount of content has never been bigger. That can be said only by looking at Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars, which have numerous upcoming projects in development, both movies and tv shows.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.