![]() ![]() Over the past 25 years, DreamWorks Animation has had a huge impact on feature animation, for both good and ill, and have created a house style as easily identifiable (and marketable) as Disney or Pixar. As of now, the future of DreamWorks Animations seems both assured (with a number of sequels to high-profile originals in development, beginning with Trolls World Tour) and uncertain (they now reside in the same corporate portfolio as Illumination Entertainment, famous for making wildly successful films at a fraction of the cost of DreamWorks Animation features). It would come close a few times, but DreamWorks Animation has also had a famously rocky history and was recently purchased, wholly, by Universal (one of three different studios who have distributed DreamWorks Animation features over the years). ![]() A key component of this new endeavor was DreamWorks Animation, a fiefdom ruled over by Katzenberg and designed to challenge Disney’s dominance in the marketplace and cultural zeitgeist. When Jeffrey Katzenberg got fired from Disney, after the unexpected death of Frank Wells and a power struggle between himself and Michael Eisner, he would strike back by collaborating with two powerhouses ( David Geffen and Steven Spielberg) and form DreamWorks, the first new full-fledged movie studio since United Artists.
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