NBCUniversal is the closest thing to a rival to The Walt Disney Company in the market today and with the just announced acquisition of DreamWorks animation, that rivalry just got a bit more heated. NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast, now effectively owns two animation… Read More »NBCUniversal acquires DreamWorks Animation Studios
Last month a DreamWorks Animation ‘theme park’ was announced as part of a shopping and entertainment complex that is under construction at the Meadowlands site in New Jersey. This DreamWorks location would be small, about 15 acres, and part of a larger complex. It’s not… Read More »DreamWorks Announces Plans for 2nd Theme Park, This Time Near Disney in Shanghai
The Annie Awards are to animation as the Emmys are to TV. But the last few years of awards have come off as slightly biased with the Annies not aligning with other industry awards due to irregularities in voting procedure (Dreamworks was allowed to essentially… Read More »Disney/Pixar ends boycott of Annie Awards
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is still promoting 3-D technology for cinemas. Installing the equipment has slowed down because of economic conditions, but he’s pushing, as reported by Associate Press writer Min Lee. Promoting the new DreamWorks 3-D animated movie “Monsters vs. Aliens,” Katzenberg told… Read More »3-D Rollout Slowed, But Katzenberg Says It Will Increase
Disney and DreamWorks Animation veteran James Baxter gets a too-short look in the Los Angeles Times. Cristy Lytal brings it to us. “I love doing the Disney stuff,” he says, “but it was nice to show that I could do other things, to get something… Read More »Animator James Baxter Featured in Los Angeles Times
It’s not so easy to be like Pixar. The digitial effects house that Terminator 2: Judgment Day built, is finding private investment offers more appealing than IPO prospects. Whether that means there’s not enough interest for a decent IPO or that the private offers are really… Read More »Digital Domain and the Elusive IPO
And March will get a boost a big movie month. Josh Friedman reports in the Los Angeles Times that DreamWorks Animation, which has its films distributed by Viacom’s Paramount, is moving the release of "Monsters vs. Aliens" up to March 27, 2009 to give it some time on the limted number of 3-D screens before… Read More »May 2009 3-D Film War Averted
My biggest concern is the one that no one sees yet. The same thing that all but killed traditional hand-drawn animation — Disney’s reckless disregard of the standards of excellence — is threatening to nip computer-rendered features short as well. Rick Aristotle Munarriz at The… Read More »Foolish Mortals