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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Animated films |
Predecessor | Amblimation Pacific Data Images |
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Headquarters | 1000 Flower Street, Glendale, California 91201 , U.S. |
Number of locations | 2 facilities |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 1,400 (2022)[2] |
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Website | dreamworks |
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA,[4] also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio and a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, itself a division of the NBCUniversal subsidiary of Comcast. The studio has produced 50 feature films; its first film, Antz, was released on October 2, 1998, and its latest film, Dog Man, was released on January 31, 2025. Their upcoming theatrical slate of films includes the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon on June 13, 2025, The Bad Guys 2 on August 1, 2025, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie on September 26, 2025, Forgotten Island on September 25, 2026, Shrek 5 on December 23, 2026, and an untitled film on September 22, 2028.[a]
Formed as a division of DreamWorks Pictures in 1994 with alumni from Amblin Entertainment's former animation branch Amblimation, it was spun off into a separate company in 2004. NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in 2016. The studio initially made some traditionally animated films, as well as three stop-motion co-productions with Aardman Animations, but now exclusively relies on computer animation. However, in 2022, President Margie Cohn stated that the studio is open to traditional animation.[18]
The studio's productions, including The Prince of Egypt, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls franchises, have received various accolades, including three Academy Awards, 41 Emmy Awards, numerous Annie Awards, as well as multiple Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Several of their fiims are also among the highest-grossing animated films of all time, with Shrek 2 (2004) being the highest at the time of its release.
Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were originally distributed by DreamWorks Pictures until 2005. Paramount Pictures took over distribution from 2006 to 2012, and 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) did the same from 2013 to 2017. Most DWA films from 2019 onward have been released through Universal Pictures, which also owns most of the rights to its back catalogue.[19]
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