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Dreamworks Animation: Will DVDs Ruin an Otherwise Good Outlook?
Steve Birenberg submits: Analysts and investors are rightly looking ahead to 2010 when deciding how to invest in Dreamworks Animation DWA. The company has three films coming out next year including two originals and Shrek 4. 2009 is in the books and although Monsters vs. Aliens produced disappointing...
Spielberg's DreamWorks raises $825m
Steven Spielberg first went to India more than 30 years ago to film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. "I remember driving from the hotel to the location through Bombay and there were movies being shot on every corner," he recalls. The celebrated Hollywood director behind Jaws and Schindler's List...
DreamWorks Animation: A Dream to Invest in
Q2 EPS of $0.30, versus the analyst estimate of $0.16. Revenue for the quarter was $132 million, versus the consensus of $116.79 million. DreamWorks Animation DWA reported Tuesday second-quarter earnings that blew past Wall Street forecasts and said cheaper advertising and its bigger film...
Earnings Watch: Viacom and DreamWorks Animation
Seth Gilbert submits: Tuesday, Viacom VIA delivered some good news. The company said its premium movie channel joint venture, Epix (developed jointly with Lionsgate LGF and MGM), has signed a carrier deal with Verizon VZ. Viacom also said it was “very pleased” with advance bidding (called “up...
McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy Meal
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DreamWorks Stock Looking Animated
Zachary Maxfield submits: DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. DWA has recently put up some impressive numbers. On April 28, the company announced earnings for the first quarter and the stock rallied 25% immediately. The stock has held the gains firmly and it’s perhaps even more impressive that DWA has...
Dreamworks: A Storybook Quarter
Ockham Research submits: Dreamworks Animation SKG DWA reported earnings that outpaced analysts' estimates despite not having a major domestic theater release during the first quarter. Well, technically, “Monsters Vs. Aliens” was released in the last week of the quarter, but very little of that was reflected in this...
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Jessica Reif-Cohen – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Jessica Reif-Cohen – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Shrek the Musical when should we see the touring company impact the financials? Jeffrey Katzenberg It...
Imax Is the Future of Movies
Julia Boorstin submits: ShoWest is abuzz about Imax IMAX now that the company's big format theaters broke records this past weekend with the debut of DreamWorks Animation's DWA Monsters vs. Aliens. The movie was Imax's biggest 3-D debut ever, generating $5.2 million in revenue from just 143 screens. That...
Will the Credit Crunch Squeeze 'Monsters vs. Aliens'?
Julia Boorstin submits: This will be a monster-size weekend at the movies, and I'm not just talking about box office numbers. Yes, if you have kids, you're sure to find yourself at a matinee of Monsters vs. Aliens, which is opening on 3,500 screens. The performance of this film...
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| 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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