<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $4 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $87.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J.M. Barrie . It is the 14th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO Radio Pictures . Peter Pan is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released . Peter Pan is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators . It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature Alice in Wonderland . </P> <P> The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival . A sequel titled Return to Never Land was released in 2002, and a series of direct - to - DVD prequels produced by DisneyToon Studios focusing on Tinker Bell began in 2008 . </P>

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