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DREAM WORKS

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Slide 1

Title: Background

*Founders

Founded October 12, 1994; 17 years ago Founder(s)

Steven Spielberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg

David Geffen

*History

The company was founded following Katzenberg's resignation from The Walt Disney Company in 1994. At the suggestion of a friend of Spielberg, the two made an agreement with long-time Katzenberg collaborator David Geffen to start their own studio. The studio was officially founded on October 12, 1994 with financial backing of $33 million from each of the three main partners and $500 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Citation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks

SLIDE 2

Title IDEA

* Conscience

Rowland also noted in his interview on Bay FM that Steve Spielberg had called his production company DreamWorks, because he recognized that great stories come from somewhere other than the conscious mind. As well as calling it the ‘super conscious’ Rowland remarked that some people call it ‘genius 

Of course, others call it the ‘collective consciousness’ but lately I have started to feel more comfortable with the idea that it’s actually the ‘universe’, that ‘one-ness’ that unites us all.

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* Individual involvement in

Dreamworks.

Mr. Katzenberg has served as our Chief Executive Officer and member of our Board of Directors since October 2004. Mr. Katzenberg co-founded and was a principal member of DreamWorks Studios from its founding in October 1994 until its sale to Paramount in January 2006. Prior to founding DreamWorks Studios, Mr. Katzenberg served as chairman of the board of The Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994.

As chairman, he was responsible for the worldwide production, marketing and distribution of all Disney filmed entertainment, including motion pictures, television, cable, syndication, home entertainment and appsive...