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Heat Index; Weekly Rating (0-10) of Sizzle & Fizzle.(MediaWorks)
9 Robert Iger Is this man happy? Does Mickey love Minnie? Last week Michael Eisner bowed out (finally!), just as ABC was turning in one of its best-ever rating performances. 7 Fug Girls Everything you need to know you learned in middle school, or...
No D'Works, NBC/Uni.(VIDBITS)(DreamWorks L.L.C.)(NBC Universal )(Brief Article)
DreamWorks has killed talks to be acquired by NBC Universal for now. DreamWorks backed out of the deal after Universal was unwilling to agree to the studio's $1 billion asking price as well as other terms, according to published reports. The two si DreamWorks...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
Kasenna Inc. said it erred when providing a list of content providers its ViewNow subsidiary had program license deals with for its video-on-demand platform (Broadband Week, May 30). While ViewNow does have deals with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Warner Bros., NBC Universal, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks SKG, Lions...
'Father of Pride' is back of pack
"Father of the Pride" is yet another example of how not to make a television show. Ideally, the folks who make TV shows come up with a great idea and then figure out a way to make their great idea into a great TV show. "Father...
Tooth and claw: NBC puts 'Pride' in prime time
Looking for a hit during prime-time's comedy drought, NBC is gambling on a long shot: a pricey, computer-generated cartoon. Father of the Pride (Tuesday, 9 p.m. ET/PT), a fanciful look at the lives of a lion family in Siegfried & Roy's Las Vegas act, has a big chip in...
NBC, Fox duke it out in court
LOS ANGELES -- A judge's ruling Wednesday in a dispute between Fox's "The Next Great Champ" and a rival boxing favored Fox. But round two is set for next month. Superior Court Judge Linda Lefkowitz denied a request from producers of NBC's "The Contender" for a temporary restraining...
Boxing showbrouhaha goes courtside
Aslugfest between Fox TV and the producers of a competing NBC boxing series has landed in court. DreamWorks SKG and reality mogul Mark Burnett, producers of NBC's upcoming "The Contender," asked a judge to force Fox to edit allegedly unlawful bouts out of "The Next Great Champ"...
Melee in comedy, cars.(Vidbits)
* On the one-year anniversary of the formation of Melee Entertainment, a division of DreamWorks devoted solely to programming produced exclusively for home video (VB, 1-29-03), the company has inked a deal with comedian Ralphie May to release a DVD and CD of his stand-up routines...
Attack puts show in doubt
When addressing TV critics a couple of months ago, NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker was decidedly excited about a pair of shows slated to premiere a year from now -- "Joey," the "Friends" spinoff that will star Matt LeBlanc, and "Father of the Pride," the network's first computer-animated prime-time series....
Viva Las Vegas. (Through the Wire).
Elvis and "the Rat Pack" are long gone, but "Sin City" continues to have a hold on television and cable programmers. According to Magna Global USA's fall program-development report, NBC is pondering the merits of Las Vegas, a primetime series pilot...
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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