Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Contractual Obligation, Fiscal Year Maturity Schedule

The commitments under certain programming, film licensing, talent and other agreements (“Programming and Other”) and minimum rental commitments under noncancelable long-term operating leases (“Operating Leases”) payable during the next five years and thereafter are as follows (millions):



	Programming and Other		Operating Leases
2018	$	7,008	$	323
2019	4,911		184
2020	4,275		123
2021	3,770		94
2022	3,192		85
Thereafter	14,808		319
Total	$	37,964	$	1,128

Contingent Commitments

The following table summarizes the Company’s contingent commitments at December 31, 2017. For post-production term advances where payment obligations are outside the Company’s control, the timing of amounts presented in the table represents the earliest period in which the payment could be requested. For other contingent commitments, the timing of amounts presented in the table represents when the maximum contingent commitment will expire, but does not mean that the Company expects to incur an obligation to make any payments within that time period. In addition, amounts presented do not reflect the effects of any indemnification rights the Company might possess (millions).



Nature of Contingent Commitments	Total		2018		2019-2020		2021-2022		Thereafter
Guarantees	$	2,057	$	283	$	370	$	707	$	697
Post-production term advance obligations and other contingent commitments	1,008		364		169		475		—
Total contingent commitments	$	3,065	$	647	$	539	$	1,182	$	697

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