DreamWorks Animation, American entertainment company producing animated feature films, original TV series and shorts, interactive media, live entertainment, theme park attractions, and consumer products. It is based in Glendale, California.
DreamWorks Animation is owned by NBCUniversal, whose parent company is Comcast Corporation and they are both based in the United States. CBS, CNBC and ABC are all also owned by American companies. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA) (also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast.
DreamWorks SKG founding and Universal distribution. The original company was founded following Jeffrey Katzenberg's resignation from The Walt Disney Company in 1994.
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the company's film plans had grown too ambitious and led to inconsistent performance. The company has struggled with a weaker-than-expected performance from some films, such as "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," which contributed to a loss in its most recent quarter.
DreamWorks Animation's first movie was Antz, released two months before A Bug's Life, and thus this studio was born into incessant comparison to Pixar's output, molded by it, becoming the snarky and sarcastic foil to its competitor's earnestness.
The reason that “Ice Age” and “Rio” are on Disney+ is because Disney acquired the animation studio that made those franchises, Blue Sky, as part of a much larger deal where they bought most of the former 21st Century Fox.
Movies from the Shrek franchise make up four of the top ten highest lifetime grossing DreamWorks Animation animated movies in the United States and Canada. The highest grossing animated movie made by the company is "Shrek 2" with a lifetime gross of over 441 million dollars.
Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (in their feature directorial debuts) and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H.
In a groundbreaking agreement announced in July 2021, Netflix secured a deal with Universal's renowned animation studios, DreamWorks and Illumination. This exclusive partnership grants Netflix the limited-time streaming rights to all new animated movies released by these studios, for the US audience.
It seems unlikely that anyone could ever overtake Disney in the Hollywood cartoon business, even if they had another 100 years. But DreamWorks movies have certainly provided some healthy competition, with a few specific titles in the company's filmography arguably outshining most of Disney's usual fare.
As far as we're all concerned, their names are Fiona and Shrek Ogre because they're ogres. Other than that, neither of them ever had a last name mentioned in the movies.
Donkey is a fictional character created by William Steig and adapted by DreamWorks Animation for the Shrek franchise. He is voiced primarily by Eddie Murphy.
Scrat is a fictional character in the Ice Age franchise. He is a saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collecting acorns, constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and defend them.
Disney's shares are owned by a mix of insiders, ordinary investors, and institutional investors. Disney's largest individual shareholders are the company's insiders, including the current CEO, Robert Iger, and top managers, such as Brent A. Woodford, Maria Elena Lagomasino, and Mary Barra.
After the release of The Wild Robot, DreamWorks is set to ring in the new year with Dog Man on January 31, 2025. The movie is a spin-off of 2017's Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and will be directed by Peter Hastings, the executive producer and creator of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.
