DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.

Current logo since 2004. Current logo since 2004.
Company type	Public (NYSE: DWA)
Industry	Animated films
Founded	1997 (original date) 2004 (official launch)
Headquarters	Glendale, California Redwood City, California , United States
Key people	Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer Roger Enrico, Chairman Lew Coleman, President
Website	dreamworksanimation.com

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NYSE: DWA) is an independent American animation studio which primarily produce a series of critically and commercially successful computer animated films, including Shrek, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie and Kung Fu Panda. It was formed by the merger of the feature animation division of DreamWorks SKG and Pacific Data Images (PDI). Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks SKG, it was spun-off into a separate public company in 2004.

They are currently distributed only through Paramount Pictures (in turn owned by Viacom) who acquired the rest of DreamWorks SKG in February 2006. DreamWorks Animation maintains two studios: the original DreamWorks feature animation studio in Glendale, California and the PDI studio in Redwood City, California.

History

Early years

In 1980, Pacific Data Images was founded by Carl Rosendahl with a small loan from his father. In 1982, he was joined by Richard Chuang and Glenn Entis, who wrote the foundation of the in-house computer animation software that was to be used for the next two decades. During the 1980s, PDI created many animated logos and commercials for television for companies like NBC and Sky Movies. They shifted into motion picture visual effects beginning in 1991 with a contribution to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

1997–2003

In 1997, DreamWorks SKG was formed and founded by a trio of entertainment players, director and producer Steven Spielberg, music executive David Geffen, and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. DreamWorks signed a co-production deal with PDI to form subsidiary PDI, LLC (PDI owned 60% of PDI, LLC while DreamWorks SKG owned 40%). The new unit would produce computer-generated feature films beginning with Antz in 1998. In the same year DreamWorks SKG produced The Prince of Egypt using traditional animation techniques.

In 2000, DreamWorks SKG created a new business division, DreamWorks Animation, that would regularly produce both types of animated feature films.

The traditionally animated feature films were produced by the division's Southern California branch. DreamWorks SKG acquired majority interest (90%) in PDI, reforming it into PDI/DreamWorks, the Northern California branch of its new business division.

The business division separated from its parent in 2004, forming DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. and purchasing the remaining interest in PDI as well as its subsidiary PDI, LLC.

2004–present

Since its official launch in 2004, the studio is dedicated solely to producing CG animated films in-house and has committed itself to make two computer-animated feature films a year. No more traditional 2D animation is expected.

DreamWorks Animation also had a partnership with Aardman Animations, a stop-motion animation company in Bristol, England. This partnership had DreamWorks participating in the production of stop-motion films in Bristol, and also had Aardman participating in some of the CG films made in the US. This partnership ended after the release of Flushed Away in November 2006; the announcement was made before the film's release, on October 3, citing "creative differences" as the reason.

The logo, adapted from the parent studio's logo, consists of a boy fishing on the moon, against a backdrop of the daytime sky albeit with more colorful lettering. The soundtrack of this logo was originally an adaptation of the DreamWorks theme; however, following the global success of Shrek in 2001, this became an shortened adaptation of True Love's First Kiss (the Love Theme from the Shrek soundtrack), composed by John Powell.

Employees at Dreamworks get to enjoy breakfast and lunch for free, a perk not found at many other companies.

Partnerships

Dreamworks Animation has an on-going partnership with HP, and the studio exclusively uses HP workstations and servers. In 2005, AMD signed a 3 year deal to provide processors to the studio. This relationship ended in 2008, and Dreamworks announced that they will use Intel processors for future productions.

see also InTru3D

Board of Directors

The PDI/DreamWorks Studio in Redwood City, California

The following executives are on the DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. Board of Directors:

• Roger Enrico, Chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
• Paul Allen, Chairman of Vulcan Inc.
• David Geffen, Co-Founder of DreamWorks
• Lew Coleman, President of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
• Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Capital Management
• Nathan Myhrvold, Chief Executive Officer of Intellectual Ventures
• Meg Whitman, formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay, Inc.
• Judson Green, President and Chief Executive Officer of NAVTEQ
• Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co.
• Karl von der Heyden, retired Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Pepsico, Inc.

Films and series

Traditionally-animated films

Note: All traditionally animated films were made at the Glendale studio.

Film	Year	Worldwide Gross	Metacritic	Rotten Tomatoes
The Prince of Egypt	1998	$218,613,188	64	79
The Road to El Dorado	2000	$76,432,727	51	47
Joseph: King of Dreams	2000	(direct-to-video)	N/A	70
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	2002	$122,563,539	52	68
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	2003	$80,767,884	48	46

Stop-motion films

Note: All stop-motion films were produced by Aardman Animations.

Film	Year	Worldwide Gross	Metacritic	Rotten Tomatoes
Chicken Run	2000	$224,834,564	88	97
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	$192,610,372	87	95

Computer-animated films

Note: Only one computer-animated film was produced by Aardman.

Film	Year	Budget	Worldwide Gross	Metacritic	Rotten Tomatoes
Antz	1998	$105,000,000	$171,757,863	72	97
Shrek	2001	$60,000,000	$484,409,218	84	90
Shrek 2	2004	$150,000,000	$919,838,758	75	89
Shark Tale	2004	$75,000,000	$367,275,019	48	34
Madagascar	2005	$75,000,000	$532,680,671	57	55
Over the Hedge	2006	$N/A	$335,206,062	67	74
Flushed Away (Aardman co-production).	2006	$149,000,000	$176,319,242	74	74
Shrek the Third	2007	$160,000,000	$794,561,223	58	42
Bee Movie	2007	$150,000,000	$287,076,833	54	51
Kung Fu Panda	2008	$130,000,000	$630,563,684	73	90
Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa	2008	$150,000,000	$544,193,991	61	60

Upcoming computer animated films

• Monsters vs. Aliens (March 27, 2009) (Glendale, in production)
• Crood Awakening (2009)
• How to Train Your Dragon (March 26, 2010) (Glendale, in production)
• Shrek Goes Fourth (May 21, 2010)
• Master Mind (November 5, 2010)
• Kung Fu Panda 2: Pandamonium (June 3, 2011)
• Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer (2011)
• Madagascar 3 (2011)
• Shrek 5

Live action film with animation

Note: Tom and Jerry are the similar to Star Wars movies.

• Tom & Jerry: The Great Beginning (December 25, 2013) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 2: Beware of the Clones (April 1, 2014) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 3: Winx Club United (Columbus Day 2014) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 4: Escape The Saturn (Mother’s Day 2015) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 5: Enter the Toonsville (March 17, 2016) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 6: Battle of Toons (Father’s Day 2016) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 7: The Lost Royal Treasure (Labor Day 2016) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 8: The Bait Escape (Memorial Day 2017) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 9: Operation: Flying Dutchman (October 31, 2017) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 10: The Barrier of Kung Fu Gnome (July 4, 2018) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 11: Revenge of Dagonzard (Thanksgiving Day 2018) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)
• Tom & Jerry 12: Return to the Medieval Island (February 14, 2019) (also with Nickelodeon Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, O Entertainment, National Geographic Society, Phoenix Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, & Rainbow S.p.A.)

TV Specials

• Shrek the Halls (2007)

Short films

• Shrek 4-D (2003) (PDI, ride film for Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Movie World)
• Far Far Away Idol (November 5, 2004)
• The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (October 30, 2005) (PDI)
• First Flight (May 19, 2006) (Glendale)
• Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (October 19, 2006) (Glendale)
• Secrets of the Furious Five (November 9, 2008) (Glendale)

Traditionally-animated television series

• Toonsylvania (February 7, 1998-December 1, 1998)
• Invasion America (June 8, 1998-July 7, 1998)

Computer-animated television series

• Father of the Pride (August 31, 2004-May 27, 2005)
• The Penguins of Madagascar (March 2009)

Sources

• History of Pacific Data Images
• DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. 2004 Annual Report (PDF file)

External links

• Official site
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