For Mr. Katzenberg, who had top movie jobs at Paramount Pictures and the Walt Disney Company before co-founding DreamWorks SKG in 1994, it seemed natural that he
would become the chief executive of his own company one day. But what
has caught many investors by surprise is the number of blunders
DreamWorks Animation has made since going public last October.
The NY Times has an article on the floundering fortunes of the DreamWorks Animation Company led by ex-Disney exec Jeffrey ‘Sparky’ Katzenberg. Turns out it’s not so easy to capture that ‘The Lion King’ magic again.
[Ttags: disney, katzenberg, animation, film, dreamworks, eisner]