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Beginning with ''[[Splash]]'', Touchstone soon became Disney's go-to brand for mainstream live-action films that weren't saccharine enough for the Company's flagship brand. At first, Touchstone was by far Disney's most-used brand for theatrical releases (far more so in terms of quantity than the Disney branded stuff), and television productions. Studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg adopted a strategy of "singles and doubles", in essence producing lots of low-cost [[High Concept]] movies which once in a while would turn into great successes. ''[[Three Men and a Baby]]'' - the highest grossing movie of 1987 - is a perfect case in point: a remake of a French film, with television actors in the lead roles and filmed in Canada. In 1990 Disney CEO Michael Eisner even created a competing division within Disney - [[Hollywood Pictures]] - which eventually got scaled back towards the end of the decade.
However, with the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' series (the first film being the first Disney-branded movie to get a PG-13 rating), the once clear distinction between Disney and Touchstone territory began to blur, and Touchstone became more pigeonholed. In 2006 new Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company would be making an effort to focus more heavily on its three main core brands (Disney, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[ESPN]]), as well as on major acquired properties (such as [[Pixar]] and [[The Muppets]], and later [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] and Lucasfilm). As consequence in 2007 it was announced that the Disney studio would scale back on the number of live-action films produced, the majority of which would now be Disney-branded.
The arrival of Rich Ross as Dick Cook's replacement as Disney Studios chairman in 2009 was a huge blow to Touchstone. In an effort to streamline the studio and cut back on losses, Ross announced a new business plan: to trim the number of films that Disney distributed to eight a year, and to only make films that the studio knew how to sell. Namely, in terms of live action films this meant either big-budget [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] produced movies or [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] films (and ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies after the company's 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm), or lower-budget [[Disney Channel]]-esque films. Most of the films in Touchstone's pipeline were cancelled, including sequels to sleeper hits ''[[The Proposal]]'' and ''[[Wild Hogs]]''. The last in-house studio made film released through Touchstone was the 2010 ensemble comedy ''[[You Again]]'', which flopped at the box office.
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However, this doesn't seem to be happening. In 2013, as part of Disney's breakup with [[Jerry Bruckheimer]], Horn admitted that the studio wasn't interested in reviving Touchstone as a producer (Bruckheimer wanted to head up a new version of the label). Instead, when Disney took over full distribution rights to the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] and the ''[[Star Wars]]'' sequel trilogy, they chose to brand them under the respective internal studios that made them (Marvel and Lucasfilm). Touchstone was then used to distribute [[Studio Ghibli]]'s ''[[The Wind Rises]]''. ''[[Strange Magic]]'', having started production by [[George Lucas|Lucasfilm]] when it was acquired by Disney in 2012, was Touchstone's most recent non-DreamWorks release, and the last for the foreseeable future. DreamWorks plans to cut ties with Disney upon the contract's expiration, a move that may spell the end of Touchstone after its last release of the deal,''The Girl on the Train'' in October 2016.
They had their own television unit until 2007, when it was renamed [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] Studios as part of Iger's above-mentioned company refocusing efforts.
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* ''[[Three Ninjas]]''
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* ''[[25th Hour]]''
* ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]'': The first Disney-associated film to get a PG-13 rating.
* ''[[The Alamo]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Alive]]'': with [[Paramount]].
* ''[[Apocalypto]]''
* ''Armageddon'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production, directed by [[Michael Bay]].
* ''[[Bad Company]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Bad Company]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Baby: Secret Of The Lost Legend]]''
* ''[[Beaches]]''
* ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'' with [[Columbia Pictures]].
* ''[[Big Business]]''
* ''[[Big Trouble]]''
* ''[[Bringing Down the House]]''
* ''[[Bringing Out The Dead]]'' with Paramount.
* ''[[Cabin Boy]]''
* ''[[Can't Buy Me Love]]''
* ''[[Casanova]]''
* ''[[A Civil Action]]'' with Paramount.
* ''[[Cocktail]]''
* ''[[Cold Creek Manor]]''
* ''[[The Color of Money]]''
* ''[[Con Air]]'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* ''[[Confessions of a Shopaholic]]'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* ''[[Corky Romano]]''
* ''[[Coyote Ugly]]'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'': Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
* ''[[Déjà Vu]]'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]''
* ''[[Down And Out In Beverly Hills]]'': The first ever R rated film from the Disney company. Also the first film greenlighted by Michael Eisner after becoming Disney CEO.
* ''[[Ed Wood]]''
* ''[[Enemy of the State]]'', a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* The [[Ernest P. Worrell]] films:
** ''[[Ernest Goes to Camp]]''
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* ''[[Good Morning Vietnam]]''
* ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'': Touchstone's first G rated film. Seriously. (It was originally scheduled to be released by Miramax, but it ended up as a Touchstone film after the Weinstein brothers left the company and the Disney animation folks didn't want it to be released under the Disney name.)
* ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' (2000), a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
* ''[[Green Card]]''
* ''[[The Guardian]]''
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* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': During its original release, though in 2006 it was moved to the Disney brand.
* ''[[Nothing To Lose]]''
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'': with [[Universal]].
* ''[[Open Range]]''
* ''[[Oscar]]''
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* ''[[Film/Stakeout|Stakeout]]''
** ''[[Another Stakeout]]''
* ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' with [[TriStar Pictures]].
* ''[[Stella]]''
* The ''[[Step Up]]'' series
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* ''[[Summer Of Sam]]''
* ''[[Three Fugitives]]''
* ''[[Three Men
* ''[[Tin Men]]''
* ''[[Two Much]]''
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=== Notable television productions from Touchstone Television: ===
* ''[[According to Jim]]''
* ''[[Alias]]''
* ''[[Blossom]]''
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]''
* ''[[Clone High]]''
* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''
* ''[[Empty Nest]]''
* ''[[Felicity]]''
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]''
* ''[[Hard Time on Planet Earth]]''
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''
* ''[[Lost]]''
* ''[[Monk]]'' (a co-production with [[Universal|Universal Television]]) - This was the final series to carry the Touchstone Television logo - the corporate name changed to ABC Studios during its run, but the Touchstone logo remained.
* ''[[The PJs]]''
* ''[[Scrubs]]''
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]''
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