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- It was originally founded on October 12, 1994, as a live-action film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (which together form the SKG of DreamWorks SKG), of which they owned 72%.
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Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were originally distributed by DreamWorks Pictures until 2005. Paramount Pictures distributed its releases from 2006 through 2012, and 20th Century Fox (currently known as 20th Century Studios) did the same from 2013 through 2017.
It was originally founded on October 12, 1994, as a live-action film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (which together form the SKG of DreamWorks SKG), of which they owned 72%. The studio formerly distributed its own and third-party films.
In 2004 DreamWorks spun off DreamWorks Animation as an independent company, and Katzenberg stayed on as chief executive officer. In August 2016 the corporation was acquired by NBC Universal (also known as NBCUniversal), a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, which was originally a cable television operator.
Ever since 1998 and into this Friday’s release of Kung Fu Panda 3, DreamWorks Animation has emerged as one of the dominant forces in animated storytelling worldwide, whose blend of...
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DreamWorks was founded in 1994 by a dynamic triad made up of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. Though Spielberg needs no introduction, Jeffrey Katzenberg had been serving as the chairman of Walt Disney Studiosfor nearly ten years before his departure to DreamWorks. Under his leadership, the company experienced what some call t...
In the summer of 2000, DreamWorks partnered with an outside animation studio, Aardman Animations, to create their first-ever stop-motion feature-length film, ‘Chicken Run’. This solidified DreamWorks’ commitment to a diverse variety of animation styles in their films; officially ticking off the three boxes for each major type of animation at the ti...
In 2016, Comcast, specifically the NBCUniversaldivision, purchased the animation studio for $3.8 billion where it remains to this day. Just to clarify that for all of you, this means that Universal Pictures owns DreamWorks and, thus, is indefinitely in charge of distributing all their films both past and present. As it stands today, DreamWorks has ...
Oct 2, 2013 · The studio became known primarily became known as the producer of safe and mass-market friendly zany animal pictures (think Madagascar, A Shark Tale, and Over the Hedge) just as Pixar...
Mar 27, 2015 · What underpins TIME’s 1995 coverage of DreamWorks is a sense of just how rare it is for a new force to rise in a Hollywood governed by a set of old, ossified studios. DreamWorks obtained ...
