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DreamWorks beats 3Q estimates with `MvA' on video
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DreamWorks beats 2Q expectations; costs seen down
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Dreamworks close to Disney deal after Universal falls through
Stephen Spielberg’s Dreamworks film studio is close to a six-films-a-year distribution deal with Walt Disney. The studio had until recently been in negotiations with Universal after an acrimonious end to its relationship with Paramount. The deal with Universal had involved...
Stay at home.(DreamWorks/Universal Deal)(Universal Studios Home Video will distribute DreamWorks Home Entertainment product through 2010)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
* Universal Studios Home video will distribute DreamWorks Home Entertainment product through 2010 after the companies agreed to a 4-year extension last week. NBC's impending purchase of Universal triggered the talks that led to the new deal. The Dr * Universal Studios Home video...
The final frontier. (A VB Purchasing Guide).(DreamWorks Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Video make DVD announcements)(Brief Article)
DreamWorks Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Video are offering different TV series in different ways. DreamWorks Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Video are offering different TV series in different ways.
Escape clause. (Wide Angle).(DreamWorks gets a clause in its distribution deal to let it take its home video and foreign theatrical business from Universal Studios)(Brief Article)
* In anticipation of the sale of Universal Studios by Vivendi, DreamWorks has asked for and received a clause in its distribution pact that allows Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to take their home video and foreign theatrical * In anticipation of...
Terminator 2 lands first on high-def VHS.
The first high-definition movie for the home market will hit stores around May 28 when Artisan Home Entertainment releases Terminator 2: Judgment Day on Digital-VHS (D-VHS), Artisan officials said. Titles expected to join T2 on that date or so ...
Certain sell-through garners licensees of its own - DreamWorks, Universal Studios film marketing campaigns - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
LOS ANGELES -- Movie studios and their licensing partners usually part ways after an "event" feature film ends its run in theaters, but this won't be the case when "Shrek" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" debut on video in November with an impressive lineup of licensees.
The future looks statuesque.(the 73rd annual Academy Awards)(Brief Article)
Gladiator, Tiger win Oscars; let the marketing begin! As if being the top-selling DVD of all time wasn't enough, Gladiator walked away with top honors at the 73rd annual Academy Awards, copping statuetres for best picture and lead actor Russel ...
Oscar nods at video hits.(Universal Studios Home Video's Erin Brockovich, DreamWorks Home Entertainment's Gladiator)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
DreamWorks Home Entertainment's Gladiator and Universal Studios Home Video's Erin Brockovich, two of 2000's top performers on video, were nominated for a slew of Oscars on Feb. 13, including best picture, best actor/actress, best director and best DreamWorks Home Entertainment's Gladiator and Universal...
GameWorks on its own.
* DreamWorks is ending its five-year founding partnership in the Game Works entertainment centers. Co-founding partners Sega Enterprises and Universal Studios are finalizing negotiations to ... * DreamWorks is ending its five-year founding partnership in the Game Works entertainment centers. Co-founding partners Sega Enterprises...
Video in 2000: A $20 billion business.(Statistical Data Included)
Consumers spent more than ever on home video in 2000, with sales and rentals of VHS and DVD software hitting the $20 billion mark for the first time. Rental revenue was at an all-time high of $8.25 billion, according to VSDA...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| 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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