| DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. | |
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Type |
Public company |
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Industry |
Animated films |
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Founded |
October 12, 1994 |
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Founder(s) |
Steven Spielberg |
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Headquarters |
Glendale, California, United States |
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Key people |
Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO |
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Products |
Theatrical animated feature films Television animated series |
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Owner |
DreamWorks SKG (1994–2004) |
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Employees |
2,200 (2013) |
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Website |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television programs, and online virtual worlds. They have released a total of twenty-six feature films, including the franchises of Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon. As of October 2012, its feature films have made over $10 billion worldwide,with its $430 million average gross surpassing all other studios besides Pixar ($595 million). Four of DreamWorks Animation's films—Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted—are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and fifteen of the films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films, with Shrek 2 being the fourth all-time highest.
Even though the studio also made traditionally-animated films about serious subjects earlier, such as The Prince of Egypt, Joseph: King of Dreams, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, most of their computer-generated films and television series have now gained the studio a reputation for being focused on humor and satire although their most successful recent franchises have it balanced with more dramatic narratives.
The studio was formed by the merger of the feature animation division of DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images (PDI). Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks in 1997 by some of Amblin Entertainment's former animation branch Amblimation alumni, it was spun off into a separate public company in 2004. DreamWorks Animation currently maintains two campuses: the original DreamWorks feature animation studio in Glendale, California and the PDI studio in Redwood City, California.
Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were formerly distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Viacom, who acquired the DreamWorks live-action studio in February 2006, spinning it off again in 2008. In 2013, however, 20th Century Fox, a subsidiary of News Corporation, will distribute DreamWorks Animation films for a 5-year-deal.
List of Films[]
Feature films[]
Released films[]
| # | Title | Release date | Budget | Gross | RT | IMDb |
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| 1 | Antz | October 2, 1998 | $105,000,000 | $171,757,863 | 95% | 6.7 |
| 2 | The Prince of Egypt | December 18, 1998 | $70,000,000 | $218,613,188 | 79% | 6.8 |
| 3 | The Road to El Dorado | March 31, 2000 | $95,000,000 | $76,432,727 | 49% | 6.6 |
| 4 | Chicken Run | June 23, 2000 | $45,000,000 | $224,834,564 | 96% | 7.1 |
| 5 | Shrek | May 18, 2001 | $60,000,000 | $484,409,218 | 89% | 7.9 |
| 6 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | May 24, 2002 | $80,000,000 | $122,563,539 | 69% | 6.7 |
| 7 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | July 2, 2003 | $60,000,000 | $80,767,884 | 45% | 6.5 |
| 8 | Shrek 2 | May 19, 2004 | $150,000,000 | $919,838,758 | 89% | 7.3 |
| 9 | Shark Tale | October 1, 2004 | $75,000,000 | $367,275,019 | 36% | 5.9 |
| 10 | Madagascar | May 27, 2005 | $75,000,000 | $532,680,671 | 55% | 6.8 |
| 11 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | October 7, 2005 | $30,000,000 | $192,610,372 | 95% | 7.6 |
| 12 | Over the Hedge | May 19, 2006 | $80,000,000 | $336,002,996 | 75% | 6.8 |
| 13 | Flushed Away | November 3, 2006 | $149,000,000 | $178,120,010 | 72% | 6.8 |
| 14 | Shrek the Third | May 18, 2007 | $160,000,000 | $798,958,162 | 40% | 6.0 |
| 15 | Bee Movie | November 2, 2007 | $150,000,000 | $287,594,577 | 51% | 6.2 |
| 16 | Kung Fu Panda | June 6, 2008 | $130,000,000 | $631,744,560 | 87% | 7.6 |
| 17 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | November 7, 2008 | $150,000,000 | $603,900,354 | 64% | 6.7 |
| 18 | Monsters vs. Aliens | March 27, 2009 | $175,000,000 | $381,509,870 | 72% | 6.6 |
| 19 | How to Train Your Dragon | March 26, 2010 | $165,000,000 | $494,878,759 | 98% | 8.2 |
| 20 | Shrek Forever After | May 21, 2010 | $165,000,000 | $752,600,867 | 57% | 6.4 |
| 21 | Megamind | November 5, 2010 | $130,000,000 | $321,885,765 | 73% | 7.3 |
| 22 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | May 26, 2011 | $150,000,000 | $665,692,281 | 81% | 7.3 |
| 23 | Puss in Boots | October 28, 2011 | $130,000,000 | $554,709,226 | 84% | 6.7 |
| 24 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | June 8, 2012 | $145,000,000 | $742,110,251 | 79% | 7.0 |
| 25 | Rise of the Guardians | November 21, 2012 | $145,000,000 | $303,355,095 | 74% | 7.5 |
| 26 | The Croods | March 22, 2013 | $135,000,000 | $283,000,000 | 70% | 7.2 |
| 27 | Turbo | July 17, 2013 | $127,000,000 | $273,000,000 | 67% | 6.5 |
| 28 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | March 7, 2014 | $145,000,000 | $273,000,000 | 79% | 6.9 |
| 29 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | June 13, 2014 | $145,000,000 | $619,000,000 | 92% | 8 |
| 30 | Penguins of Madagascar | November 26, 2014 | $132,000,000 | $373,000,000 | 71% | 6.8 |
| 31 | Home | March 27, 2015 | $132,000,000 | $369,000,000 | 46% | 6.7 |
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Rise of the Guardians[]
Rise of the Guardians was the last DreamWorks Animation DVD release to be distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, since 20th Century Fox would announce its distribution agreement with DreamWorks Animation a few weeks after the theatrical release (it was completed in August 2012).