22 Facts About DreamWorks Animation

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DreamWorks Animation LLC is an American animation studio that produces animated films and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast.

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Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were originally distributed by DreamWorks Pictures until 2005.

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In 1995, DreamWorks Animation signed a co-production deal with Pacific Data Images to form subsidiary PDI, LLC.

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In 1997, DreamWorks partnered with British stop-motion animation studio Aardman Animations to co-produce and distribute Chicken Run, a stop-motion film already in pre-production.

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Animation division was spun off into a publicly traded company named DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc on October 27,2004, and traded via the New York Stock Exchange.

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On March 13,2007, DreamWorks Animation announced it would release all of its films, beginning with Monsters vs Aliens, in stereoscopic 3D.

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In July 2012, DreamWorks Animation won a $155 million bid to acquire Classic Media, which has since been renamed to DreamWorks Classics.

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DreamWorks Animation, which has "big plans for the franchise", has become the exclusive worldwide licensor of the merchandise rights, except for Scandinavia, where Dam Things remains the licensor.

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DreamWorks Animation announced their launch into the television broadcasting business on December 9,2014, by creating their own channel called the DreamWorks Channel.

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On January 5,2015, DreamWorks Animation announced that Bonnie Arnold, producer of the How to Train Your Dragon series and Mireille Soria, producer of the Madagascar series were named co-presidents of the studio's feature animation division.

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DreamWorks Animation was later promoted to president of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group in February 2019 following the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and DreamWorks Animation subsequently hired former Sony Pictures Imageworks head Randy Lake as the new chief operating officer of the company three months later.

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On November 13,2017, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation had started a shorts program, called DreamWorks Shorts, which will show original animated short films before DWA's feature films, much akin to what Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios do for their feature films.

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Pearl Studio collaborated with DreamWorks Animation to produce Abominable, with the film's original director, Jill Culton, returning.

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On February 27,2018, DreamWorks Animation announced that Kelly Betz has been promoted as Chief Financial Officer.

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On May 2,2018, Hulu announced its first license deal with DreamWorks Animation, becoming the exclusive streaming home for future DWA feature films, as well as library films.

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On January 16,2020, five new DreamWorks Animation shows were announced for Hulu and NBCUniversal's new video streaming service Peacock.

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In 2004, DreamWorks Animation unveiled its own logo, in which the boy flies up to the moon via balloons.

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In 2010, DreamWorks Animation unveiled a new logo, this time with the boy fishing on the moon in space.

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Many of DreamWorks Animation's films are animated internally at their Glendale campus, but some of their films were animated by Pacific Data Images, a subsidiary of DreamWorks, until its closure in 2015, in a somewhat similar fashion to Illumination, which has most of its films animated by Illumination Mac Guff.

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DreamWorks Animation has an ongoing partnership with Hewlett-Packard that has been active since 2002, and the studio exclusively uses HP workstations and servers.

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DreamWorks Animation has a partnership with NetApp in order to supply cloud-based storage that allows the company to complete its films.

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DreamWorks Animation Experience is a package of character interactions and experiences, including shows: Ice shows, Aqua shows, Sailaway parties, parades, wow moments, meet and greets, and character dining, featuring from the Shrek franchise: Shrek, Princess Fiona, Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws.

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