The Complicated History of Dreamworks & Disney Explained
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Does Disney Own Dreamworks? Or is it Disney Vs Dreamworks?
It’s not uncommon to mistake a Dreamworks Animation film for a Disney one. From The Prince of Egypt to Trolls, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Disney might have had a hand in those films. But does Dreamworks have anything to do with Disney? Let’s find out.
This question is best answered by exploring the fascinating origins of Dreamworks the company. Established in 1994, the company was original called Dreamworks SKG. Those three letters at the end stood for the three founding members of the company. Steven Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberg and David Geffen.
Considering this video is about Dreamworks and the Walt Disney Company, we’re going to focus on Jeffery Katzenberg because, before co-founding Dreamworks, his job was chairman of Walt Disney studios. Katzenberg oversaw film and television production from 1984 to 1994 at Disney, a time that has been described as the Disney Renaissance. We're talking: Little Mermaid, beauty and the beast, Aladdin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the list goes on.
So, when Katzenberg left in 1994, was it an amicable break up and perhaps he started Dreamworks as a Subsidiary of Disney? No, no quite the opposite actually.
The story of how and why Katzenberg left Disney is fascinating and far too complex to go into during this video. But if you are interested, I can highly recommend this book, Disney War which is about Michael Eisner’s time as CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, Jeffery Katzenberg had a huge falling out with then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and he resigned in the summer of 1994, a few months later, Dreamworks SKG was formed. The company would go on to produce or co-produce a number hugely successful animation and live action films, including: Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Kung-Fo Panda, Madagascar and, the iconic Shrek - a film which would be filled with a number of jokes aimed at Disney.
Since Dreamworks’ founding, it has been a powerful rival to Disney animation empire. Even winning the inaugural Best Animated Film category at the 2001 oscars beating out Disney Pixar’s Monsters Inc. But this rivalry was never more evident than during the debacle around A Bug’s Life and Antz. My word what a mess that was.
A Bug’s Life was a Disney Pixar film that came out in 1998. It was about a young, quirky male ant, that struggles to win the princess's hand while saving their society. Meanwhile Antz was a dreamwork film that came out in 1998 that was about a young, quirky male ant, that struggles to win the princess's hand while saving their society. Wait a minute.
A lot of this story is hearsay, so it’s difficult to know exactly what was true and what happened when. But Pixar claims they had pitched Disney the concept of A Bug’s Life before Katzenberg left the company. According to business week, it seems that the pitch could have been the day that Katzenberg left Disney.
Katzenberg denied hearing the A Bugs Life pitch and apparently, it was a DreamWorks executive who pitched the idea of Antz to him. In the end, Antz took $170 million at the box office and A Bug’s Life cleaned a dreamy $350 million. So Disney one at the box office. In my opinion they’re both great movies, well, actually I haven’t seen Antz in over a decade so I can’t really comment on that. But, I do believe that the similarities are probably a coincidence and there wasn’t anything sinister at play.
So, does Disney own Dreamworks? No, even though their histories are intertwined, Disney has never owned Dreamworks or even bid for it as far as my research suggests.
Thank you for watching this video. Got any other Disney related questions you’d like me to answer? Feel free to put them in the comments and perhaps I’ll make a video about them.
And if you’re interested in whether you can rent out Disneyland for the day, check out one of my most recent videos. Thanks again for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.
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The guys who founded DreamWorks (Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen) literally did it out of spite of Pixar and Disney. It's actually a very interesting story.
"In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and made a deal to produce films with India's Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group,[4] re-creating DreamWorks Pictures as an independent entity. The following year, DreamWorks entered into a distribution agreement with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, wherein Disney would distribute DreamWorks films through Touchstone Pictures; the deal continued until 2016." -Wikipedia
Megamind is my favorite Dreamworks movie 🎥
Megamind is a GREAT film!
@@DefinitelyOwen Indeed!
Shrek is mine
@@Vintagevibeproductions Smelly ogre!
@@Vintagevibeproductionsi respect your opinion BTW I imagine this What If Idea here it is
What If Idea:What If both Don Bluth and Jeffery Katzenberg never had their Falling outs with Disney and Chris Meledandri never left Blue Sky Studios?🤔💭
I think Dreamwork’s releasing their own on the same day Pixar Released theirs is what caused Disney to topple. Dreamwork’s was new, it’s been just Pixar, Disney and Don Bluth for years.
But really, from the day that Katzenberg step into Disney, up to the premier of Roger Rabbit, everything was failure after failure.
But then, when he started DreamWorks, it was success after success
Disney was struggling before even he got hired on lol
What do you mean? Like before Katzenvurg arrived or after? Because either way, I kinda find on what you say yo be pretty exaggerated, since both eras did have their fair share of successes, but absolutely the latter when it was the DISNEY RENAISSANCE
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Disney was all about the folklores and Fairy tales…..and making them kid appropriate and classics.
Dreamworks though with their movies is all about Creativity and doing the impossible.
Agree, dreamworks studio is full of smart and great people who add adult jokes into kids movies, so that way both audiences can enjoy the movie
Thanks for the video. It's really informative. I heard about the Dreamsworks co-founder being a former Disney member but I didn't know much. So thanks again.
May I ask, what are the differences between Disney and Pixar? For example, I believe Disney bought Pixar outright around 2006. But Pixar had already created several film by then. So what was the relationship like before and how is it now?
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! In regard to Pixar & Disney, before Disney bought Pixar they had a distribution deal which meant that Disney would distribute the films that Pixar made. Now, even though Disney owns Pixar, they (Pixar) have made an effort to remain relatively independent. They wanted to make sure that Pixar’s culture, staff and projects stayed with the company and didn’t merge into Disney’s animation arm. Disney obviously still distributes the movies though haha If you’re interested, I can recommend a great book called To Pixar & Beyond written by the first CFO of Pixar exploring the company’s journey from its origins.
@@DefinitelyOwen Wow. Thank you so much for the reply and recommendation. I greatly appreciate it :)
You're welcome!
It's hands off for me with Disney and all their affiliated partners. I won't purchase anything with Disney.
Katzenburg: I made the Lion King. (laughs evily)
Eisner: (frustrated) What is this guy even thinking, Roy?
R.E. Disney: (sighs) I know, Mike. First he pushes Steve Jobs and his team to make Toy Story the Katzenburg way, and now this? This guy doesn't deserve to be President of our animation department.
Eisner: Don't worry, Roy. I'll make sure he doesn't go anywhere near it.
(In Eisner's Office)
Eisner (cont'd): What the hell were you thinking out there, Jeffrey? I don't understand why you had to push everyone against the wall to get that "President" job when Frank died not too long ago. Don't you care that he's no longer with us? You know, I could've made you President if you waited a little longer, and stopped being pushy towards the animators here and at Pixar, but now the last person I want to give this position, is to an egotistical, stressful, and greedy individual like you. Now don't ever ask me for the job again, and GET BACK TO WORK.
Katzenburg: (grunts) Fine! Have it your way, Mike. (He walks back to his office visibly upset and defeated.)
And shortly not long after The Lion King’s release he resigned and sued the company for money that he was owned at the time.
I’m Half way reading Disney War and Katzenberg was a huge narcissistic assh*le. What an unlikeable guy. No doubt hugely talented and intelligent though
@@collierparker8213 Indeed I think that they may have got the inspiration for the emperors advisor in Mulan probably based Him off Katzenburg and made him so unlikable
Dreamworks is definitely the good guy here
@@JosephRailwayStudios2000 yup and he won against Disney
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