Tag archive: Dreamworks

Some people enjoy speculating about celebrity romances, some people enjoy speculating about corporate mergers. Every once in a while, we sit down with a beer and talk about cool mergers that will never happen, but might be really interesting to watch. This week I figured I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you. Disney + Apple It wouldn’t matter which one bought the other, but this could be a really cool combination. In many ways,… Read More

Netflix may need to start keeping an eye on YouTube's rental service. Thanks to a new partnership, Disney movies will be available for rent through the popular Google-owned streaming service. The first batch of many Disney movies are available beginning today, some starting at $1.99. The official announcement, via blog post, points out that today's batch is “the first of hundreds of The Walt Disney Studios Movies,” with more releases… Read More

Announced by AMC Networks and Netflix Inc. earlier today, the partnership between the two companies has expanded to include more AMC shows, including exclusive access to the modern-day zombie survival tale The Walking Dead. The entire first season of The Walking Dead is currently available on Netflix's streaming video service and future seasons will become available shortly prior to the airing of the following season. For instance, the… Read More

Nintendo and DreamWorks Animation SKG have entered into a partnership to deliver 3D content in the form of animated movies to the portable 3DS gaming system. To begin the joint venture, Dreamworks will be providing two animated shorts for the 3DS related to the upcoming Halloween holiday. Titled “Night of the Living Carrots”, the first features characters from the 2009 Dreamworks animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens and is available… Read More

It’s the question that’s been on every gadget enthusiasts’ mind for the last few years: What’s going to happen with this whole 3D TV thing? Critics and analysts have gone back and forth, telling us that reports from consumers reveal low interest in the medium and that it’s simply a fad – only to swiftly reconsider and sing the 3D TV’s praises and potential earning power. This in turn makes it difficult for manufacturers and consumers alike to… Read More

Dreamworks and Paramount return to the mystic Orient with the most famous panda that the world isn’t waiting to procreate. Po, the kung fu panda returns with the Furious Five, as a new bad guy–the emperor peacock–attempts to take over China with a powerful new weapon. To defeat the emperor and save all of kung fu, Po must confront his own past to find the strength to win. Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, David Cross, Lucy… Read More

Director Michael Bay along with Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures have released a new trailer for the third Transformers film. It is a surprisingly subdued clip from Bay, with nary an explosion to be seen, and not a single half naked woman in the entire trailer. The third film involves a secret mission to the dark side of the moon during the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, which confirmed to humans that there is alien life in the universe.… Read More

Even though the summer movies of 2011 won’t come out until, well, summer of 2011 obviously, now is the time of year when films begin to slowly feed the hype machines in order to generate some early buzz by releasing trailers. Green Lantern just released the first official trailer, and not to be outdone, Jon Favreau (Iron Man 1&2, Zathura), Universal and Dreamworks have dropped the trailer for one of their summer 2011 blockbuster, Cowboys… Read More

It’s starting to look like companies are going to ride the 3D wave whether consumers decide to join in or not. Toy company Hasbro is updating its classic ViewFinder to pair with iPhones and iPod touches for 3D gaming and viewing. Apple, Dreamworks, the Discovery Network, Sony, and IMAX are developing content for the new toy, dubbed the My3D. We’re not quite sold on the product yet. While it’s really cool that one of the simplest childhood toys… Read More

With 3D coming to market aggressively, both in the movie theater and at home on 3D TVs, it got me wondering what was likely to be next. After listening to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg speak on 3D technology the other day, it would seem that the real ramp for 3D will come with TVs that don’t require glasses. They should arrive at good price points sometime around 2018 to 2020, so we have a bit of a wait. Still, it is fun to break out the… Read More

Earlier this week, DreamWorks Animation was saying it didn't know when it would stop releasing films in HD DVD format, with DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg noting the companies had signed “lucrative” contracts with Toshiba and saying the ball was in their court. Apparently Toshiba knows how to play ball: today Video Business is reporting that Paramount's HD DVD releases (Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the… Read More

While seemingly every movie studio, retailer, and rental store has jumped on board with Blu-ray in the aftermath of the format war, it turns out it will not be quite as easy for former HD DVD ally DreamWorks animation. According to Reuters, the company is still legally bound to the format by lucrative contracts it inked with Toshiba before the format’s fall. “As you know, we have been well-compensated for our support,”… Read More

The new version 4.1 of Apple's Emmy award-winning Final Cut Pro now delivers simultaneous playback of seven fully uncompressed standard definition (SD) video streams with real-time effects using adual 2.0 GHz processor Power Mac G5 and Xserve RAID. The new G5-optimized Final Cut Pro 4.1, Shake 3.0.1 and DVD Studio Pro 2.0.2, with the new Compressor 1.1 update, are immediately available forcurrent Final Cut Pro 4, Shake 3 and DVD Studio Pro… Read More