An Introduction
A Brief History
A young boy fishing in a pool of dreams that is the image and/or logo we see when we watch the latest production from DreamWorks. DreamWorks LLC, a publicly traded American film company, was founded in late 1994. Founders are media frontrunners Jeffery Katzenberg, formally the top manager of Disney's animated unit and responsible for such hits as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King, David Geffen, and by Steven Spielberg, renowned director and producer. (Wikipedia.com)
The different sectors of DreamWorks include:
· DreamWorks Pictures
· DreamWorks SKG
· DreamWorks Studios
With their hand in every aspect of entertainment from TV and music to movies and videogames "the studio has had it greatest financial success with movies, especially animated movies." (DreamWorksStudios.com) Its most successful title to date is Shrek 2. As a fairly young company, DreamWorks has gone through it share of sells and mergers with such companies as Viacom and Paramount Pictures. The company has release plans for titles through the year 2013.
Financial Information
The company is one of the leading studios in the recent innovation of computer-generated animation. It pushes competition, such as Pixar, to continue to strive for the limits of what today's technology can do for the entertainment industry. So it was surprising to learn, that under the eye of Katzenberg the company lost 125 million on Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and recently it has been that the company has twice been close to bankruptcy. In 2006, revenues rose 2.8 billion and since then continue to rise for 2007. (Wikiped ...