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Panda sequel has a release date
…a global success,” states DreamWorks Animation’s CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Because of their imaginative work, Po’s path to heroism proved popular with moviegoers of all ages around the world.” Kung Fu… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…cracking up Jeffrey Katzenberg and equaling Steve Martin for one of the two funniest lines of the evening at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theater in… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…what monsters I’d like to see. Then, later on, my co-director, Rob Letterman came. He had gone to Jeffrey [Katzenberg] and said: “I want to do a ‘Dirty Dozen‘ movie”,… |
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Monsters Vs Aliens to get 3D Super Bowl promo
…of any 3D telecast, with Jeffery Katzenberg pegging it as “perhaps the biggest media-advertising event in history.” About 150 million pairs of 3D glasses will be given away at various… |
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Disney and DreamWorks deal is done and dusted
Ever since Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg left Paramount Studios to run The Walt Disney Company in 1984, the Mouse House has wanted to break into the Steven Spielberg business…. |
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Bolt
…name is long gone, replaced by Executive Producer Lasseter, still the only production executive that seems to take a credit on these films nowadays: even Jeffrey Katzenberg gave up that… |
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DreamWorks Animation income falls 45%
…the motion picture studios. Added concern for the Broadway musical Shrek and overall DVD sales are among the topics Jeffrey Katzenberg addresses in relation to DWA’s last quarter profit figures…. |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…Pluto and Minnie – could do. Once Rescuers Down Under was greenlit and moved forward, my understanding was that Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted to release it with something else, just to… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
…the face of DreamWorks’ smart and sassy Antz? This was back, if you recall, when Jeffrey Katzenberg had recently left the Mouse House and had launched his own animation studio… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…to put the story into song, they managed to come up with a way to make the story work with songs driving the characters. In an unprecedented move, Katzenberg hired… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…English noble, and Aladdin had three best friends. The story was shown to then Walt Disney Pictures Chairman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who suggested changes to the original story. A year and… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…Father of the Pride, the TV show that DreamWorks did. After that, I started working on Shrek the Third, as co-director. Jeffrey Katzenberg was so nice to offer me the… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…satirical way and be just as effective. And we went down that road for quite some time until it was very clear that Jeffrey [Katzenberg] really wanted a very, very,… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…you’ve worked under the management of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Schumacher and John Lasseter – all but David Stainton. Could you compare and contrast how it was working for each of… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…Katzenberg. Because they came from a live-action background they were used to having scripts and so they demanded that the animated films have scripts as well. Although to me I… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…Jeffrey Katzenberg saying that he’d like me to do Tarzan and he wanted me to do it through the TV division. He wanted to set up a new studio in… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…us about the origins of that twist on Oliver that is Oliver & Company? George Scribner: The idea was pitched in a group meeting very early on when [Jeffrey] Katzenberg… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…Holmes, Basil was every bit as clever as Conan Doyle’s mystery-story hero, but obviously skewed towards the younger reader set. Michael Eisner and Jeffery Katzenberg – the then new execs… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…choice and search deep within herself to find the answers to her destiny… The Sweatbox Review: Before Jeffrey Katzenberg came to Disney and heralded the “second coming” of feature animation… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…King, Disney’s then Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg was on a roll, and he was determined to build on the mature aspects of these successes and create a blockbuster epic that… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…surpasses the rather lazy approach to Robin Hood the Studio would tackle next, and remained a quotable movie for recycled animation shots well into the Eisner/Katzenberg era, also unquestionably influencing… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg! The huge sets needed to recreate Popeye’s town of Sweethaven began construction in Malta, and casting began in earnest (with such names as Dustin Hoffman and… |
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Big release Tuesday: Muppets, Darkwing and Tick!
…first profit he’d seen from the deal. DWA honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg has said Allen will remain an “adviser” to the company, while Allen himself remarked that he was “pleased to… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…with as much as $50 million being shunted Paramount’s way and talk of $100m going to DreamWorks. For Jeffrey Katzenberg, however, it’s all about reaching families: “We decided to release… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…a number of highpoints that continue to outweigh the often over-maligned output of the proceeding decade. If it wasn’t to be until the Eisner/Wells/Katzenberg era, from 1984 onwards, that Disney… |
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The Wild
…films take up to four years to produce (with notes on The Wild going back as far as 1991, when a certain Mr Katzenberg, cough-cough, was still very much at… |
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Fantasia 2000
…Disney’s most successful. The stage was set for a rebirth of Fantasia. A new Fantasia has been discussed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Katzenberg (rumor is that in his version… |
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2009 Annie Nominees announced
…— Tim Burton, Bruce Timm, Jeffrey Katzenberg June Foray — Tom Sito Ub Iwerks Award — William T. Reeves Special Achievement — Martin Meunier and Brian McLean Certificate of Merit… |
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DreamWorks at CES
…the new equipment. In other news, the Wall Street Journal reports that DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is excited about the possibilities of Internet-connected TV. The move to content providers being… |
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A look at Waking Sleeping Beauty
…doesn’t paint over the conflicts that not only were inevitable in Disney’s resurgence but also were an outcome of the turnaround itself, as the studio’s most senior executives (Jeffrey Katzenberg,… |
