Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider is an American film and theatrical producer, notable as the first president of Walt Disney Feature Animation for The Walt Disney Company from 1985 to 1999, and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released. These films included "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "The Little Mermaid" (1989), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991, the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture), "Aladdin" (1992), and "The Lion King" (1994, the highest
Cars (film) United States, ranking number one at the box office. In the United States, the film held onto the number one spot for two weeks before being surpassed by "Click" and then by "Superman Returns" the following weekend. It went on to gross $462,216,280 worldwide (ranking number six in 2006 films) and $244,082,982 in the United States (the third highest-grossing film of 2006 in the country, behind "" and "Night at the Museum"). It was the second highest-grossing film released by Walt Disney Pictures, behind "Dead Man's Chest" and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 2006 in the United States.