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
Aladdin (1992 Disney film) New World". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: The film was first released in VHS on October 1, 1993, as part of the "Walt Disney Classics" line. In its first week of availability, "Aladdin" sold over 10.6 million copies, grossing about $265million in the United States. In less than three weeks, the VHS release of "Aladdin" sold over 16million units and grossed over $400million in the United States. By December 1993, it had topped 21million sales and grossed about $500million in the United States. By 1994, it went on to