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DreamWorks Pictures (also known as DreamWorks SKG commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film studio and distribution label of Amblin Partners.It was originally founded on October 12, 1994, as a live-action and animation film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (which together form the SKG of DreamWorks SKG), of which they owned 72%.
Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC, doing business as Amblin Partners, LLC., is an American independent entertainment production company. It develops and produces films under the Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, as well as television series through Amblin Television .
The animation division was spun off into a publicly traded company named DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (doing business as DreamWorks Animation LLC) on October 27, 2004, and traded via the New York Stock Exchange. [citation needed] Katzenberg headed the new division, while Spielberg and Geffen remained on board as investors and consultants. [25]
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) [1] is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor.In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records (with Mo Ostin, Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker) in 1996.
The Amblimation label was shut down in 1997 and most of the studio staff was transferred to DreamWorks Animation, which Spielberg co-founded in 1994. [17] Two more films were in development at the time Amblimation was shut down.
For decades, Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures, has served as an arbiter of presidential fundraising in Los Angeles, usually dictating the terms of who gets to host the first ...
LaBelle, a 19-year-old Vancouver native, grew up with Spielberg DVDs and Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones Lego sets in his home. “It’s mind-blowing. “It’s mind-blowing.
Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, [a] where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016.