DISNEY REMAKES THE MOVIE STUDIO In early October, Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert A. Iger installed a new chairman at the company's movie ...
DreamWorks Animation beats 3rd-quarter earns forecast; `Monsters vs. Aliens' home sales strong DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. shot past analyst estimates in releasing third-quarter ...
This image provided by DreamWorks shows a scene from the animated feature, "Monsters vs Aliens." While 3-D movies played the hero at the box office this summer, the format hasn't helped a slumping home video market _ mainly because most people still ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ending a complete lack of suspense, director Michael Bay said Thursday that he will shoot a third "Transformers" film, whose release date has been brought forward by exactly one year to July 1, 2011. Stars Shia LaBeouf ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When DreamWorks announced in May that it planned to make a movie about Martin Luther King Jr., it took less than 24 hours for the prestige project to hit a speed bump. Two of King's children disputed ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - How's this for an unexpected switcheroo? Action director Peter Berg, who had been talking with DreamWorks about taking on the studio's futuristic robot boxing movie "Real Steel," has moved on, opening up the gig to Shawn Levy. ...
WOLVER-MOUSE? Walt Disney's $4 billion offer to buy comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment went over well with investors, who sent Marvel shares up 25% when the deal was announced on Aug. 31. Bringing Spider-Man and the X-Men's Wolverine into Disney's orbit should ...
TIME WARNER: HEAT FROM SPIDER-MAN Walt Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment shows the Mouse House is still willing to make big bets in parlous times. The surprise move is also certain to put renewed pressure on other media companies to ...
Analyst downgrades DreamWorks Animation, poking hole in acquisition speculation An analyst downgraded the shares of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. on Wednesday, saying speculation it would be bought by a media giant was unfounded. David Miller of Caris & Co. said DreamWorks experienced ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's a 7-year-old boy's dream team -- Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates. DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the action-adventure novel "Pirate Latitudes," which Crichton ...
The new DreamWorks Studios run by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider announced it had finalized an 825-million-dollar deal with Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group. DreamWorks said it had secured the final piece of financing for its plan to shoot about six films ...
