UPDATE: Dreamworks and The Mouse Officially Doing the Grown Up

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 9, 2009

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Special thanks to my friend and future legal giant Alyssa for pointing me in the direction of the Law Offices of Craig Delsack who, for some reason, have a habit of printing AP stories. One such story, the official announcement regarding Dreamworks and Disney hitching their wagons.

While the press release announcement is pretty boring, we’ve been waiting around for it all day, and it only has a few key points:

  • The deal is for exclusive distribution.
  • Disney will do distro and marketing for six Dreamworks films a year.
  • The first film in that grouping won’t be released until 2010.
  • The release brags about Disney getting access to Steven Spielberg but neglects to mention them getting access to a company in terrible financial shape.

Now we’re just hoping it won’t be awkward when Universal runs into Disney and Dreamworks at Urth Coffee or something. Sure, they’ll pretend to be friends, smile and be cordial, but we all know the hurt feelings will bubble up later and Disney will be all handsy with Dreamworks right in front of Universal. As if they need that kind of emotional stress right now. And with Valentine’s Day coming up. Seriously.


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  • So, let me get this straight...

    Disney is supposedly going to distribute both Dreamworks AND Pixar films?

    WTF?
  • Disney distributes Pixar????? that's news to me
  • I sense irony... I'm just not sure where.
  • I wasn't being ironic... i honestly didn't know that Disney distributes Pixar..
  • I...wow, Okay. I mean it's all a little different now that Disney bought Pixar, but, yeah, they've distributed Pixar since the beginning.
  • Disney bought Pixar in 2006 with Steve Jobs joining the Disney Board of Directors and actually owning more in stock than Michael Eisner or Roy Disney. Like, six times more. No idea where he stands next to Iger though.
  • LOL @ the headline
  • In fairness, it was Universal's fault for not paying enough attention to Dreamworks, they were bound to end things eventually. Oh sure, they say they're still going to be friends, but we all know how it'll go. They'll exchange a couple of emails at first, and then they'll try to avoid one another, try not to make eye contact during awards season, until eventually, they find themselves at the Oscars, drunk and vulnerable, and then the next day, they wake up together with shame on their faces and 9 months later...BAM! Madagascar 3.
  • I'm glad you're getting as much from the metaphor as I did.

    Not sure how serious you are with your first point, but do you really think of it as Universal's fault?
  • I wasn't even slightly serious with the first point. I don't know enough about why Dreamworks were shopping for a new distributor to decided whose fault it was. I seem to remember reading something about it a few days ago, but at the end of the day, something happened internally that I'm not aware of so I honestly couldn't say. If you know something you're welcome to enlighten me.
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