Disney hooks up with Dreamworks

[Moonliner]

The Walt Disney Co.'s motion picture arm said Monday it has agreed to a long-term exclusive distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG movie studio after a similar agreement between DreamWorks and Universal Pictures fell apart last week.

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[Ghoulish Delight]

Whoa. So now they are Pixar AND Dreamworks? Good for Disney. I suppose it remains to be seen if it's good/bad/neutral for animation.

[Alex]

No, Dreamworks Animation is a separate spun off company from Dreamworks SKG. Animation is still under contract with Paramount.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

[Alex]

What's interesting to me is that Disney apparently will distribute under the mostly dead Touchstone label. I was expecting them to keep it all under the Dreamworks name (so they could make the money off of R movies withouth putting a Disney-familiar name on them.

[Disneyphile]

Wow. Katzenberg has now come full circle!

[Alex]

Katzenberg is with Dreamworks Animation not SKG so he hasn't quite yet made the circle.

[RStar]

DisPixWorks?