DreamWorks is an animation company owned by Universal. The company is located in Glendale California and creates animated films, TV and games. The studio currently have 38 feature films starting with 1998s Antz and their most recent 2020s Trolls World Tour. In 2016, NBC Universal bought DreamWorks for $3.8 billion, making it part of universal animation. As of May 2019 these films have grossed over $15.09 billion USD, with an average of $400 million per film. The studio has earned three Academy Awards, as well as 41 Emmy Awards and have numerous Annie Awards, and multiple Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were originally shown worldwide to be by DreamWorks Pictures from 1998 to 2005, then by Paramount Pictures from 2006 to 2012, and then 20th Century Fox from 2013 to 2017. Universal Pictures now is seen to lead DreamWorks Animation films, which began on February 22, 2019 with the release of How To Train Your Dragon 3.
On October 12, 1994, a trio of creatives, a film director and producer named Steven Spielberg, a former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, and a music executive David Geffen, founded DreamWorks SKG (the three letters taken from the surnames of the founders). To build the talent base, Spielberg brought over artists from his London-based studio, Amblimation, while Katzenberg recruited some of the top animation staff from Disney. Some of Amblimation's artists came to DreamWorks in 1995, when the studio's last feature film was completed, with the rest doing so following the studio's closure in 1997.
In 1997, DreamWorks partnered with Aardman studios, a British stop motion studio. In 2001, Shrek was released and went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Due to the success of CGI animated films, DreamWorks decided the same year to exit hand-drawn animation after the current ones in development were finished. This move began with Shrek 2 in 2004, and all released films, other than some co-produced with Aardman, were to be produced with CGI/3D animation. The releases of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale also made DreamWorks the first studio to produce two CGI animated features in a single year.
DreamWork's partnership with Aardman ended after the release of 2006s Flushed Away in November 2006, having delivered three out of five films. On March 13, 2007, DreamWorks Animation announced it would release all of its films, from 2009s Monsters vs Aliens in a new software, stereoscopic 3D. Together with Intel, a software company, they co-developed a new 3D film-making technology, InTru3D.
The Studio
Personally I love the look of DreamWorks Studios but there is not much to go off. Unlike Pixar or Disney the studio has had very old tours that are no where near up to date and it may have changed dramatically inside. The studio itself would be an honour to work for but I don't find the interior as exciting from what I can find. Being one of the top studios, it is disappointing they don't have any studio tours but it is understandable as some studios prefer a completely closed door set up rather than word spread.
Feature Films Produced
Feature Films Produced After Paramount Buyout
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures or Paramount is an American film studio. It is the fifth oldest film studio in the world and is the second oldest in the USA. The company's studios are located in Hollywood, California. The studios were founded over a century ago in 1912 by 3 men by the names of William Wadsworth Hodkinson, Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. In 1916, Adolph Zukor hired 22 actors and actresses under contract and honoured each with a star on the logo. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
On December 11, 2005, the Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG (which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg) in a deal worth $1.6 billion. The agreement does not include DreamWorks Animations SKG Inc., the most profitable part of the company that went public the year prior.
On December 11, 2005, the Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG (which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg) in a deal worth $1.6 billion. The agreement does not include DreamWorks Animations SKG Inc., the most profitable part of the company that went public the year prior.
Paramount Pictures Animation
Paramount Animations is the side company to Paramount Pictures and was founded in 2011. The studio has tended to be a collaboration studio working alongside DreamWorks and Nickelodeon. The studio have produced very few feature films and nearly all of them have been cross studio produced and due to them being a small studio belonging to Paramount there is not much available information about the small studio itself.