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DreamWorks Animation SKG Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions First we go to the line of Drew Crum with Stifel Nicolaus. Drew Crum - Stifel Nicolaus Thanks. Good afternoon, everyone. Just a question on Monsters Versus Aliens -- Jeffrey, any update on presumed ticket premiums for the film, and just give us...
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. ...
D'Works exec to Genius.(VIDBITS)(Mitch Budin of DreamWorks)(Brief Article)
"The newly formed Genius Products, the home entertainment distributor for product from The Weinstein Co., is bulking up its ranks. Former DreamWorks exec Mitch Budin has joined Genius Products as executive VP sales. He was head of sales, North "The newly formed Genius Products,...
Genius Products, Inc. Appoints Mitch Budin Executive Vice President of Sales; Budin Joins Genius from DreamWorks SKG
SAN DIEGO -- Genius Products, Inc. (OTCBB:GNPI), the exclusive U.S. home entertainment distributor for The Weinstein Company, today announced Mitch Budin has been named Executive Vice President of Sales.
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Iran: Bolstering Its Defenses What is Iran up to? Russia's giant arms-export company Rosvooruzheniye announced last week that Tehran has agreed to spend $1 billion on 30 Tor M1 air-defense missile systems, capable of protecting a target from up to 48 incoming planes or projectiles to...
High sales for Madagascar: family title has good start.(DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.'s sales from the animated movie)(Brief Article)
Madagascar busted out to a good start last week as the industry eyed how DreamWorks Animation's first major release since Shark Tale performed on video. DreamWorks executives declined to comment on initial sales, but retailers said they were happy Madagascar busted out to...
'Doom' fills North American theaters
LOS ANGELES AFP — Universal's "Doom" pulled in 15.4 million dollars over its debut weekend, outpacing Dreamworks' horse-racing drama "Dreamer," which took second place, grossing 9.3 million, preliminary figures showed. "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," the claymation release from Dreamworks Animation, dropped to third place, grossing...
Ripples from Shrek 2 ugliness are spreading: studios, retailers adopt cautious postures.(SUPPLIERS)(ifluence of the less sales of the motion pictures Shrek 2 and Shark Tale on retail market)
Missed sales forecasts by DreamWorks Animation and Pixar on Shrek 2 and The Incredibles, respectively, shook investors, but industry sources suggest all the big DVD releases are having a hard time reaching sales heights of the sort marked in the pa Missed sales forecasts...
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...
Parsing the guesswork: how are competitors or gross-profit participants supposed to know if reports are accurate?(THINK INC.)
Maybe the escalating issues relating to the number of copies DreamWorks Animation sold of Shrek 2 finally will spark the industry to create credible tracking of such data. After going public last October with bold projections of DVD sales for ...
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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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