Mweheheh
I wonder how they'll incorporate their movies into the parks (as mentioned in the article). The Orlando park already has a Shrek attraction.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
NBC Universal buys DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion.
Not sure if this is a good thing or not...
Man, remember when Dream Works Animation films were automatic money-makers while Disney animation films were struggling about a decade ago? The shoe's definitely on the other foot now.
I have no idea how well Dream Works's TV shows are doing (never watched them), but I've seen it theorized on other forums that their Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon TV series actually kneecapped their film series by making their theatrical sequels feel like less of an unique event. Which wouldn't necessarily be bad if the company was getting enough revenue from these shows and their other non-film investments to compensate for a box office bomb here and there, but they're not.
I really don't know if the deal with Comcast/Universal will help Dream Works, but I hope it does. Even though I'm more a Disney fan than a Dream Works fan, It'd be sad to see the studio that trailblazed the way for post-Bluth non-Disney animation studios to find success quietly fade away like Bluth's own studio did.
Indeed.
The age of the record-breaking, award-winning, excellent Dreamworks animated movies is likely over.
Mweheheh
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Except for HTTYD2 & KFP3, I've felt that way since Madagascar 3.
edited 28th Apr '16 12:15:33 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
... okay I mean aside from whatever's in development right now.
Financial stability-wise, it's a good thing. Before, when they had no parent company, their stability was strictly at the whim of their investors which led to all of those layoffs when their movies started to not make bank after the first HTTYD.
My best guess though is, basing it on Illumination Studio's output, Dreamworks is probably going to become even more franchise driven. I wouldn't be surprised if the Shrek franchise gets resurrected.
This will probably put a kaboosh on Dreamworks's deal with Netflix. While I doubt it will affect their current productions, we probably won't see much after that. A shame, since I was enjoying some of their content and I was looking forward to Voltron and Trollhunters.
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This is most likely the optimist in me talking, but I don't know why you would make a bleak assumption like that...
I'd think it'd be in Universal's interest to stick with the Dream Works X Netflix deal. Voltron, if I'm not mistaken, is a pretty big property to resurrect and a substantial number of Guillermo Del Toro's movies end up coming from Universal, and Trollhunters is based on his book series.
In any case, I say we stop assuming this will do anything negative to Dream Works's Netflix shows. The law of attraction states the more we think about something, good or bad, the more likely it'll happen.
Well the assumption is mostly from the fact that apparently Netflix and Comcast have some long history of feuding all the time I guess.
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o_o
...M-m-meep.
My thoughts exactly. XD I'm an optimistic person myself but I can't say I'm not worried about Dreamwork's fate with Netflix.
I think you guys are forgetting that Universal co-produces Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I don't think DreamWorks's current deal with Netflix will be affected by this.
...Oh.
Suddenly, I'm not as worried.
I had no idea, I don't keep track of all these TV corporations. Too many.
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The Dishonorable
I wonder what Universal will do to the DreamWorks Classics stuff. I'm fairly certain Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will return back to its original home on NBC once the deal with CBS is over, but what then? Aside from the Rankin/Bass stuff and maybe the Jay Ward archives, I don't think Universal will care much about the rest of it.
Hell, I'm not even sure if they're even interested in Felix the Cat or Casper the Friendly Ghost aside from merchandising.
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher
My guess, probably absolutely nothing. I doubt they care much about the classic Dreamworks stuff. It's probably not acknowledged much by Dreamworks even. Not insulting them, but it doesn't quite fit Dreamworks style anymore so they probably let people do what they want with it.
edited 29th Apr '16 5:54:12 PM by diyedas
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New clip for the Trolls film, featuring the (new?) character Cloud Guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnJSFn4jbuc
This is actually a lot better than the teaser trailer that was posted a while back. Why wasn't this clip posted first instead, rather than the teaser?
edited 12th May '16 6:22:47 AM by Yeow95
has a clue, but it's usually not the correct one 0.55% of the time
Why is he a cloud?
Prim, proper, and yet so socially awkward
Yeah, that was pretty good. Hopefully the rest of the movie will be as good as that.
"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"
Dreamworks? Guys? Anyone?
.... let me guess. No one ever explains why Cloud Guy is a cloud.
Okay then.
- -_- This generation...
I wouldn't know, I've never heard of Cloud Guy. I dunno much about the Trolls other than owning a couple of them as toys.
"That's a to-go order. See! It's already gone!!"
... To my knowledge, Cloud Guy is wholly created just for this movie. He wasn't in the original toy set that I am aware of.
That's a little strange, why have a cloud as a character if you can just use another troll?
"That's a to-go order. See! It's already gone!!"
Oh, never mind then.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?