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NAICS Code Motion Picture and Video Production: 512110
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DreamWorks beats 3Q estimates with `MvA' on video
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Can you out-predict the media experts?
If you doubt that media companies can profit from going green, look at what's in store for 2008. Indiana Jones and Madagascar sequels will be sources of renewable box office energy for Paramount and DreamWorks. New Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes will recycle his cable division...
DVD helps DreamWorks Q1.
By Ben Fritz Strong performance from its library titles helped DreamWorks increase revenue by 56% in the first quarter. The studio saw earnings grow 25% to $15.4 million on $93.7 million in revenue during a quarter ... By...
DreamWorks rethinks DVD premieres.
By Ben Fritz By Ben Fritz
DVD up for DreamWorks, down for Warner.
By Jennifer Netherby and Susanne Ault Even with no new DVD releases in the quarter, home video-and Madagascar in particular-helped fuel DreamWorks Animation's second-quarter earnings. DreamWorks reported net income of $13.7 million for the qu By Jennifer Netherby...
Studios chase Oscar coin: titles not yet announced may suffer.(SUPPLIERS)(DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.)(Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc.)(Universal Studios Inc.)
Studios are unleashing a new wave of DVD promotions and disc debuts in the hopes that to the Oscar winners will go the sales spoils. But some titles might be too late to see any real spike as a result of the awards. ...
Iger: Disney to trim live-action production: DreamWorks to boost DVD premieres.(Bob Iger of Walt Disney Co.)
In coming Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said last week that his studio has cut its live-action movie slate going forward, partly to acknowledge the changing DVD market. Iger was speaking at Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference in New York alo...
DW, Fox, Par and TW still bullish on DVD: but Disney CFO sounds confab sour note.(DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Paramount Pictures Corp., Time Warner Entertainment Company L.P., Walt Disney Entertainment Inc.)
DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, in announcing plans for a theatrical sequel to Madagascar and new DVD premiere plans, said home video is well worth its hassles. Speaking in Pasadena, Calif., at the Merrill Lynch Media and Enter ...
DVD downbeat at Disney, DreamWorks: but others paint brighter quarter.(SUPPLIERS)(financial results)(Walt Disney Co.)(The News Corporation Ltd.)(Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)
Pixar co-production The Incredibles and DVD sales in general were drags on quarterly financial results of Disney and DreamWorks, respectively. Disney saw a 17% drop in home video unit sales during the second quarter, with DVD shipments down 5 ...
SEC starts DW inquiry; execs lower forecasts: animation studio's shares dive on news.(HEADLINERS)
For the second time in two months, DreamWorks Animation has stunned Wall Street with bad news on the DVD front, sending studio shares plummeting last week and prompting leading investors to postpone indefinitely a planned so-called follow-on stock For the second time in...
DreamWorks Animation sees red as DVD sales slump
NEW YORK AFP — DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind the box-office hits "Shrek 2" and "Shark Tale," is struggling to translate its success to DVD sales, and will sink into the red for the second quarter. The company created by Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood heavyweights and spun off...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | Principal Partner |
| Jheryl Busby | Head of Urban Music |
| Terry Rossio | |
| Paul G. Allen | Investor |
Jeffrey Katzenberg is a principal partner of DreamWorks SKG, which he founded in October 1994 with his partners, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. Prior to that, Katzenberg served as chairman of The Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994. He began his career as assistant to the president of United Artists and moved on to Paramount Studios where he became president himself. Katzenberg serves on the boards of The Motion Picture and Television Fund, The Museum of the Moving Image, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California Institute of the Arts, and The Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is co-chairman of both the Creative Rights Committee of the Directors Guild of America and the Committee on the Professional Status of Writers of the Writers Guild of America.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | CEO, Dreamworks Animation Skg | Current |
| DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| DreamWorks SKG | Principal Partner | Current |
| DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Motion Picture Company, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | Board of Directors | Current |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | Board of Directors | Current |
| California Institute of the Arts | Board of Directors | Current |
| Museum of The Moving Image | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | Chairman | Former |
| The Walt Disney Studios | Chairman | Former |
Mr. Jheryl Busby serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of OneUnited Bank. Mr. Busby is currently the head of Urban Music at DreamWorks SKG and the principal and owner of Busby Holdings, a company engaged in artist and executive management, consulting and other businesses. Mr. Busby is a veteran of the music industry. He is best known for reviving Motown Records, creating the Urban Music department at MCA Records, and building the black music division at A& M Records. Mr. Busby has held senior executive positions with Stax Records, Cassablanca Records, Atlantic, CBS, A&M, MCA and Motown.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DreamWorks SKG | Head of Urban Music | Current |
| One United Bank | Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors | Current |
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| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DreamWorks SKG | Current |
Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen creates and advances world-class projects and high-impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, work and experience the world through arts, education, entertainment, sports, business and technology. He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, remained the company's chief technologist until he left Microsoft in 1983, and is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. and chairman of Charter Communications. In addition, Allen's multibillion dollar investment portfolio includes large stakes in DreamWorks Animation SKG, Digeo, Plains All American, real estate holdings and more than 40 other technology, media and content companies. In 2004 Allen funded SpaceShipOne, the first privately-backed effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space and winner of the Ansari X-Prize competition. Allen also owns the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and is part of the primary ownership group for the Seattle Sounders FC, Seattle's new Major League Soccer team. With lifetime giving totaling nearly $1 billion, Allen has been named one of the top philanthropists in America. Allen gives back to the community through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, whose goal is to transform individual lives and strengthen communities by supporting arts and culture, youth engagement, community development and social change, and scientific and technological innovation throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 2003, Allen contributed $100 million to create the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a research facility dedicated to performing innovative basic research on the brain and distributing its discoveries to researchers around the world. In 2006 the Allen Institute completed its inaugural project, the Allen Brain Atlas, a Web-based, three-dimensional map of gene expression in the mouse brain which is freely accessible online. Detailing more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level, the Atlas continues to help lead scientists to new insights and propel the field of neuroscience forward dramatically. Allen is also founder of Experience Music Project, Seattle's critically-acclaimed interactive music museum; the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame; the Flying Heritage Collection, an assemblage of rare World War II aircraft restored to flying condition and shared with the public; and Vulcan Productions, the independent film production company behind the award-winning feature HARD CANDY; the Evolution series on PBS; The Blues, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese in conjunction with Allen and Jody Patton; the Emmy-award winning Rx for Survival A Global Health Challenge; and the Peabody award-winning Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vulcan Productions | Chairman & Founder | Current |
| Vulcan Inc. | Founder | Current |
| Experience Music Project | Founder | Current |
| The Science Fiction Museum | Founder | Current |
| Allen Institute for Brain Science | Co-Founder | Current |
| Bickfordmovie.Com | Executive Producer | Current |
| Charter Communications, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Rx for Survival | Board of Directors | Current |
| DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Digeo, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| DreamWorks SKG | Investor | Current |
| Oxygen Media, LLC | Investor | Current |
| Microsoft Corporation | Chief Technologist | Former |
| Charter Communications, Inc. | Founder | Former |
| Microsoft Corporation | Co-founder | Former |
| Vulcan Inc. | Chairman | Current |
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