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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.
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 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]
DreamWorks Records (often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music, LLC) was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Mo Ostin, his son Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures. [1] The label operated until 2003 when it was sold to Universal Music Group. [2]
This was DreamWorks SKG, an omnibus entertainment company founded in 1994 that was supposed to be a major power in film, TV and music. ... The Motley Fool owns shares of Netflix and Walt Disney.
In 2004, DreamWorks Animation (DWA) was spun off from DreamWorks as a separate company headed by Katzenberg. [20] DWA held an initial public offering that same year in conjunction with the spinoff which raised more than $812 million. [21] The live-action DreamWorks movie studio was sold to Viacom in December 2005.
In late 2005, Viacom's Paramount Pictures acquired DreamWorks SKG after acquisition talks between GE and DreamWorks stalled. Universal's long-time chairperson, Stacey Snider, left the company in early 2006 to head up DreamWorks. Snider was replaced by then-Vice chairman Marc Shmuger and Focus Features head David Linde. On October 5, 2009, Marc ...