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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (DWA) is an American animation studio that mainly produces computer animation films.

history

The company emerged from the animation department of DreamWorks SKG and the company Pacific Data Images (PDI). They had produced cartoons and animated films together from 1997 onwards. After DreamWorks SKG took over the smaller company in 2000, the DreamWorks Animation business unit was created to coordinate the production of both classic and computer-generated animation films.

After the animation films achieved great success, the business unit DreamWorks Animation was separated from the parent company in 2004 and converted into the publicly listed company DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. in October. Since then, the company has been operating independently from the former parent company, but a contract was negotiated according to which DreamWorks SKG should distribute the following 12 films or all films by DreamWorks Animation that are released by the end of 2010.

After DreamWorks SKG was bought by Paramount Pictures at the end of 2005 , they took over the distribution of the animated films. Even after Paramount had sold DreamWorks SKG two years later, the contract remained.

DreamWorks Animation operates two studios: The DreamWorks feature animation studio in Glendale , California , and the former PDI studio in Redwood City , California, in the Silicon Valley region.

After work on the film Me and My Shadow , directed by Alessandro Carloni , was canceled in 2013 , Dreamworks Animation laid off 350 employees. At the beginning of 2015 it was decided to limit production to two films per year for cost reasons and to lay off another 500 employees. In addition, the PDI studio in Redwood City will be closed by the end of 2015.

In early 2016, Comcast acquired DreamWorks Animation for around $ 3.8 billion.

Filmography

Cartoons

Computer animated films

Series

Short films

Success of the animated films

The studio has released 26 full-length animated feature films since Antz and grossed US $ 13.38 billion at box offices worldwide, including 5 billion in the US alone. They celebrated the greatest success there with the four Shrek films which totaled US $ 1.27 billion, most of them Shrek 2 (441 million).

In Germany, all Dreamworks films raised a total of over US $ 417 million, which corresponds to around € 316 million. Here the three Madagascar films were the most successful, which together grossed almost US $ 127.9 million. This corresponds to the equivalent of around € 97.5 million.

So far, the films have been nominated 6 times for the Golden Globe and 10 times for the Oscars, with only the first Shrek winning one of these prizes, namely the Oscar for the best animated film of 2002.

Video games

  • 2001: Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown
  • 2002: Spirit: The Wild Mustang
  • 2004: Shrek 2
  • 2004: Shark Tale
  • 2006: Shrek: Smash n 'Crash Racing
  • 2006: Over the Hedge ( Over the Hedge )
  • 2006: Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts
  • 2007: Bee Movie Game
  • 2008: Kung Fu Panda
  • 2009: Monsters vs. Aliens
  • 2009: Madagascar Kartz
  • 2010: How to Train Your Dragon
  • 2010: Shrek Forever After: The Game
  • 2011: Kung Fu Panda 2
  • 2014: How to train your Dragon 2
  • 2019 How to train your Dragon 3 The hidden World

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Annual Report 2004" ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.8 MB), DreamWorks Animation SKG , March 25, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / files.shareholder.com
  2. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dreamworks-animation-planning-layoffs-764726
  3. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dreamworks-animation-trims-slate-two-766048
  4. ↑ http://variety.com/2015/film/news/end-of-an-era-for-pdi-as-dreamworks-animation-closes-studio-1201412629/
  5. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dwanimation.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126029/awards

Web links

Feature films from DreamWorks Animation


1998-2009

Antz  (1998)  • The Prince of Egypt  (1998)  • The Road to El Dorado  (2000)  • Chicken Run - Hens Run  (2000)  • Shrek - The daredevil hero  (2001)  • Spirit - The wild Mustang  (2002)  • Sinbad - The Lord of the Seven Seas  (2003)  • Shrek 2 - The Daredevil Hero Returns  (2004)  • Big Sharks - Small Fish  (2004)  • Madagascar  (2005)  • Wallace & Gromit - Chasing the Giant Rabbit  (2005)  • Ab durch die Hecke  (2006)  • Flutsch und weg  (2006)  • Shrek the Third  (2007)  • Bee Movie - The Honey Complot  (2007)  • Kung Fu Panda  (2008)  • Madagascar 2  (2008)  • Monsters vs. Aliens  (2009)

2010-2019

How to Train Your Dragon  (2010)  • Shrek Forever After  (2010)  • Megamind  (2010)  • Kung Fu Panda 2  (2011)  • Puss In Boots  (2011)  • Madagascar 3: Escape Through Europe  (2012)  • The Guardians of Light  (2012 )  • The Croods  (2013)  • Turbo - Little Snail, Big Dream  (2013)  • The Adventures of Mr. Peabody & Sherman  (2014)  • How to Train Your Dragon 2  (2014)  • The Penguins from Madagascar  (2014)  • Home - A smectacular trip  (2015)  • Kung Fu Panda 3  (2016)  • Trolls  (2016)  • The Boss Baby  (2017)  • Captain Underpants - The great first film  (2017)  • How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Secret World  (2019)  • Everest - A Yeti aims high  (2019)

2020-2029

Trolls World Tour  (2020)