The Walt Disney Company

In October 1954, Walt Disney made an appearance on a television broadcast previewing the launch of the Disneyland theme park the following summer, and coined one of his most memorable quotes: “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse. ” While the famed Mickey Mouse is about to turn 95, marked by the character's public debut in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, The Walt Disney Company is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The Walt Disney Company, which is celebrating its centennial in 2023, threw a bit of a low-key commemorative revelry during its CinemaCon presentation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Instead of cake and champagne, the Burbank-based Mouse House instead chose to let their upcoming slate of films, which for the first time presented product from all seven of their main studios, do the toasting.