DreamWorks Pictures is an American film and television studio founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. It develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television shows. DreamWorks Animation was formed in 2004 as an animated film division. Over the years, DreamWorks has entered various distribution deals with other major studios due to financial difficulties, including current deals with Disney and Paramount. It remains involved in film, television, and video game production and distribution.

1. DreamWorks Pictures
Sarah Byard.

2. • DreamWorks Pictures is a company which
develops, produces and distributes films, video games
and TV shows. This means they are a vertically
integrated company, and involved in every stage.
• DreamWorks was founded in 1994 (it’s the same age as
me, this is more interesting to me than it should be) by
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenburg and David Geffen.
They wanted to make a Hollywood studio in which they
own 72% (as if Spielberg doesn’t get enough money for
being an overrated director).
• DreamWorks Animation SKG was formed in 2004.
• A whole load of business deals that I don’t understand
at all occurred. I think it means that Paramount
distribute the animation films, but Spielberg has his
own studio which is half owned by Reliance.

3. Merges and other business like things I
don’t understand.
• In 2009, DreamWorks entered a distribution deal with Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures, meaning the films would be released under the Touchstone banner for
five years. This is a 30-picture distribution deal. This is probably because they’ve
been close to bankruptcy many times, so needed the Disney/Touchstone banner
to give them credibility.
• This does not include Indian films, which are handled by Reliance Films. Also not
included are sequels to live-action films released before the Paramount merger, or
those released by Paramount themselves – Paramount retains the rights to these
franchises, and one such sequel, Little Fockers, was released by Paramount
internationally in December 2010.
• In South Korea, CJ Entertainment has the rights to release all DreamWorks‘s
films, except some co-productions (for example, Minority Report was distributed
by Fox, and The Island by Warner Brothers, due to these studios having owned the
international rights to these films).
• Television distribution rights are mainly owned by Disney-ABC International, who
Katzenberg fell out with.

4. Companies involved in the
DreamWorks umbrella.
• DreamWorks Picture SKG
• DreamWorks Animation SKG
• DreamWorks Television
• DreamWorks Records, however, this was sold
to Universal in 2005. It no longer exists
now, though, as the main artist cut off to
make his own label.
• EA Los Angeles

5. • They make a load of big films.
• They’ve always made big films, because it was
founded by at least three famous industry
workers: Steven Spielberg (the
director), Jeffrey Katzenberg (the producer)
and David Geffen (the record producer/film
producer). Their first film/distribution was The
Peacemaker, which grossed
$110,463,140, over double its budget.

6. Films they’ve done:
• American Beauty
• Chicken Run
• Meet The Parents
• Catch Me If You Can
• Anchorman
• Red Eye
• Blades Of Glory (under the Paramount deal)
• The Kite Runner (ALL THE FEELS) (under the
Paramount deal)