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...However, the apparent derivativeness seems to be part of the idea: this DreamWorks/Netflix production may promote an explicitly stated message of “Feel the fear and do it anyway”, yet it patently sends up...
...It is an ambitious undertaking that will put his upstart animation group in competition with Disney, DreamWorks, Illumination and, of course, Pixar, a unit of Disney since 2006....
...The man who was credited with turning Disney round in the late 1980s (before being fired), and who went on to launch DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, then hive off the animation business...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 20 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Newer short-form streaming platforms such as Snapchat and the soon-to-launch Quibi — the latest venture from DreamWorks Animation co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg — have also been investing in the genre....
...Famously, Zhonghong also looked at DreamWorks Animation and elderly care group Brookdale....
...Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former DreamWorks Animation chief executive — and who was instrumental in forming Oriental DreamWorks with Chinese partners — says there has been a noticeable change....
...But if a deal cannot be struck with Warner to take on Universal’s Oriental DreamWorks stake, the future of the animation group is unclear....
...As Comcast last year conducted secret talks about a potential acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, five Chinese investors — including an elderly couple in Beijing — acquired an enormous stake in the storytelling...
...Enter Mr Katzenberg, who sold DreamWorks Animation to NBCUniversal for $3.8bn in 2016, and toured Cannes last week with his new pitch....
...But for a man whose partners include Hollywood luminaries such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, the chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, he is hardly the showbiz type....
...Comcast said on Thursday its NBC Universal unit will buy DreamWorks Animation in a deal that values the group at about $3.8bn....
...Comcast’s $3.8bn purchase of DreamWorks Animation is the culmination of years of attempts by Mr Katzenberg to unload his creation....
...It became a majority owner of AwesomenessTV, which makes YouTube videos, through its purchase of DreamWorks Animation last year, and owns part of Hulu, the streaming video service....
...The animation company was spun out of DreamWorks, the studio started by music executive David Geffen, film director Steven Spielberg and Mr Katzenberg, in 2004....
...Comcast buys Dreamworks We knew they were talking and now it’s official. Comcast’s NBC Universal unit will buy DreamWorks Animation in a deal that values the group at about $3.8bn....
...Comcast has held talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation for as much as $3bn in a deal that would bring the film studio behind some of Hollywood’s biggest cartoon hits under the same roof as Universal Pictures...
...Verizon is beefing up its mobile video service by buying a 24.5 per cent stake in AwesomenessTV, the teen-focused digital media network owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst....
...Animation by Comcast’s NBCUniversal....
...In 2014, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks, suggested that we are close to an era when films will only last in cinemas for three weeks....
...Mr Spielberg will use the new company – called Amblin Partners – to distribute DreamWorks films across the world....
...Even the DreamWorks deal is expected to mean that Entertainment One pays out cash initially, before any revenues or profits become visible....
...The owner of the NBC TV networks and Universal Pictures film studio, which announced a $3.8bn bid for Dreamworks Animation in April, lost 4,000 video customers in the three months to the end of June....
...His company was linked with a purchase of DreamWorks Animation last year but the talks broke down....
...Comcast-Dreamworks talks Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney...
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