#dreamworks studio

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Mr. Wolf from the Bad Guys

I watched the movie yesterday at the cinema and it was Awesome! the story, the song, the animation it’s just so good!, I can’t wait for the digital copy 😁

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Made a Keith Watercolor badge. Ruined the lion at the back but meh.

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CGI Dreamworks Animation Studio Pipeline

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Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review

I just really, really liked it. Overall a 7/10. While watching it I was in the midst of formulating a review, but I don’t feel like typing it all out. so instead just have me gushing over this movie. jshgfjdghfjhdfjhduglughuehg

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChXy1Qtv9TE)

So this is going to be happening! *///0///*

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my dream work is work at dreamworks

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DreamWorks Animation finds itself in the news again for talks of a merger with toy-maker Hasbro and a partnership with media conglomerate Hearst.

On the same evening the New York Times reported that Hasbro was "in advanced talks" to buy previously struggling DreamWorks Animation, I was purchasing the above How to Train Your Dragon toy, on sale at a local grocery store. Little did I know how quickly the toy and the studio whose film it was modeled after might stay connected. 

It is interesting to note that just a month ago, DreamWorks was reportedly in talks with Japanese group Softbank, and that at the end of August, DreamWorks signed onto a partnership with Korean animation power Studio Mir. Currently, DreamWorks is also "considering selling a stake of AwesomenessTV to Hearst Publishing for $81.5 million," according to Variety.

Clearly, DreamWorks Animation is driven to find new ways to strengthen its business in light of feature films not earning enough on their own, and because of this, the stories unfolding in business journals become nearly as interesting as the studio's movies. I sincerely hope that, with whatever deal is finally struck, DreamWorks will be able to find a path to continue to make good movies, and I will be most interestedly watching the outcome of their current talks with Hasbro. 

The partnership could be very beneficial to both sides, giving each access to new markets to increase sales. Hasbro, taking notice of the success of Warner Brothers' Lego Movie rather than the dismal wreck that was Hasbro's own game-based flicks Battleship and Ouija*, hopes to find a market for more movies based on its stock of merchandise, and, as much as I'd hate to see DreamWorks create a Play-doh movie, there is certainly room for some new My Little Pony animation, and who wouldn't like to see a reboot of Clue? Just me? All right...

 Selling movie merchandise is a lucrative business, and a partnership with Hasbro would help DreamWorks out in two big ways in regards to that. 

1) DreamWorks Animation needs a sale to save the company. The company saw two consecutive quarters with millions of dollars in losses, and while more recently it has been reporting an increase in profit — with more expected from the Penguins of Madagascar at the end of the month — the business needs a continual run of good luck to keep going.

2) Hasbro knows the toy business, an obvious benefit for a studio who produces so many kid-friendly films. 

Then again, maybe DreamWorks is missing something more obvious. Like releasing their films in Japan, as Miyapridelander pointed out on an earlier post.

I know nothing about these kind of business stuff, but all I want is just a theatrical release of How To Train Your Dragon 2 in Japan. It’s not released yet, and all the recent DW animated movies went to direct-to-video release for some years (we had no chance to see Guardians and The Croods on big screen).

- Courtney (HarmonicaCave)

*Ouija is finding financial success in that the film was relatively cheap to make, but terrible. Please stop making terrible films.