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[Press release] AOL to launch Shrek online interactive game
…Third,” said Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO, DreamWorks Animation. “And on top of that, they will have a chance to win some great prizes along the way.” “We’re excited to partner for… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…Musical, Avenue Q. Shrek the Musical is DreamWorks Animation’s first venture in legitimate theater. The production was initiated by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sam Mendes, who has a long-term relationship with… |
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Five Kung Fu Panda sequels on the way?
…I just come in and do the acting voice, it’s those animators and directors that have to really make the sacrifice.” In much more surprising news however, Jeffrey Katzenberg stated… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…and economically, keeping the animation division off the chopping block for a little longer at least. Asserting his position as head of the Studio, then new head Jeffrey Katzenberg picked… |
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3-D movies: The answer to filling theaters?
NPR.org has posted an article featuring Jeffrey katzenberg seeing 3-D as the third great revolution in the history of film. He predicts that in less than a handful of years… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…4 or 5 years. It seems like forever. Gosh, that was during the time of the takeover. Eisner and Katzenberg came in, and they moved us all out to a… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…at present, due to the runaway success of a little studio called Pixar. Then, of course, there was the small issue of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s bitter exit. For a time, this… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…producer and DreamWorks Animation head-honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg put it), with some amazing set pieces and darker-than-usual themes. The first rule of movie-music is that sometimes “less is more”. This was… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…Jeffrey Katzenberg, with none other than Steven Spielberg expressing an interest in coming on board as producer. Their choice to direct such a large-scale film was Zemeckis, who had just… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…he plays, plus the usual smiles and honors poured all over Katzenberg. There’s a little talk about how Sinbad (“that fabulous adventure character” according to director Tim Johnson) “breaks boundaries… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…animated features amongst the recent offerings. First mentioned as ripe for story treatment as far back as when then Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg was trying to up the ante on… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…the series. That Father Of The Pride was also wrongly promoted as being family-friendly (whatever the 9pm slot and creator Jeffery Katzenberg – also the K in DreamWorks SKG –… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…many jumped on Disney’s single-handed animation renaissance – not least DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had been responsible for much of the hoopla surrounding Disney’s return to glory – it was… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…this week by DWs honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg that the pair are to split. This not only proves the old adage that “there’s no smoke without fire”, but that the bottom… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…the dark final days of The Black Cauldron. Without a follow-up project in the works, Ron ‘n’ John convinced Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg to give the department a chance,… |
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Hollywood Reporter roundup: Peanuts and Dragon 2
…acquire UFS’ 80% share, with the remaining 20% retained by the Charles Schulz family. With $180m in box-office grosses so far, DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced How To Train Your… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Fantasia as the masterpiece it was. By the film’s 50th anniversary in 1990, the new Studio regime of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were on a roll with reissuing the… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…around the studio. So when Jeffery Katzenberg announced that the studio would be split in two to make two films simultaneously, many of the top animators wanted to work on… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…The Lion King in the early 1990s, Disney’s then Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg was on a roll and determined to build on the mature aspects of these successes to create… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…entertainment history books may well note Disney’s success (notorious or otherwise) with its animated direct-to-video spin-offs for around a decade starting in the mid-1990s, but long before Jeffrey Katzenberg had… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…the works, Ron ‘n’ John convinced Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg to give the department a chance, and pitched the film as a fairly low-budget, tightly paced adventure in the… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…and Jeffrey Katzenberg staved off the asset-hunting money men and ensured Walt’s legacy could continue boldly. So followed another build up of creativity and a further twenty years or so… |
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Frankenweenie
…home to Pee Wee, Beetlejuice and Batman. Burton first returned to Disney for 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, produced at a time when Disney Animation under Jeffrey Katzenberg was undergoing… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…mentioned as ripe for story treatment as far back as when then-Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg was trying to up the ante on animated films and build on the critical and… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…for another couple of years until it resurfaced under the guidance of new Mouse chiefs Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, with none other than Steven Spielberg expressing an interest in… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…The release of Toy Story in 1995 really can’t be underestimated, bringing about a sudden change in audiences’ taste in family film-going that, coupled with then-Disney head Jeffrey Katzenberg’s desire… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…least and arguably providing the groundwork for the renaissance to come. Asserting his position as head of the Studio, then-new head Jeffrey Katzenberg picked the story of Oliver Twist as… |
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Obama visits DreamWorks and “wants to work there.”
…Katzenberg. There was speculation that Obama’s speech would be overrun with an audience in green shirts protesting visual effects jobs being outsourced, says Cartoon Brew. Animation Magazine does not mention… |
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Is the Dream over? NBC/Universal to acquire DreamWorks Animation
…Universal. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DWA will finally compete with Disney on a massive scale, from television to theme parks and, while he will stay on in a new capacity, Universal’s Illumination… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…up on Part One here. When DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1994, it was as a division in a new major Hollywood studio, DreamWorks SKG. With co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg at… |
