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DreamWorks Animation in trouble

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  1. The beleaguered DreamWorks Animation just announced in a written statement that it will eliminate approximately 500 jobs at its company, far exceeding the previously anticipated number of layoffs. Many of those five hundred layoffs will come from the unexpected shutdown of one of its main studios, PDI DreamWorks, in Redwood City, California.

    The closing of that studio will begin immediately. The studio is expected to begin holding private one-on-one meetings with PDI artists as early as tomorrow, and offering some of them an opportunity to relocate to the southern DreamWorks campus in Glendale, California.

    The layoffs at PDI and Glendale will be structured as “equal force reductions,” according to a report by the Animation Guild. That’s possible because of the PDI artists who are being offered the opportunity to relocate. Any artist who leaves the studio will be paid an additional sixty days of wages after the layoff.


    I wonder what this will mean for the scores they hold the rights to. Previously we've been told some studios don't place a lot of money and time into getting the scores out and now with this large reduction, will any occur?


    DreamWorks Animation films list:
    http://www.imdb.com/company/co0129164/

    DreamWorks Studios films list:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980648/combined

    DreamWorks SKG films list:
    http://www.imdb.com/company/co0040938/

    DreamWorks Pictures films list:
    http://www.imdb.com/company/co0095166/


    Most of it isnt' a huge loss, in my opinion, but some often requested scores are on the SKG list:

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (John Williams)

    Cast Away (Silvestri)

    Small Soldiers (Goldsmith)

    Mousehunt (Silvestri)
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2015 edited
    justin boggan wrote

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (John Williams)

    Cast Away (Silvestri)

    Small Soldiers (Goldsmith)

    Mousehunt (Silvestri)


    What do you mean? All of these films have been released. Scores too, except for CAST AWAY, which only has the credits sequence released (the rest is available on the promo).
    I am extremely serious.
  3. You have to understand, you're Thor.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorJim Ware
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2015
    Also, Dreamworks Animation is not the same corporate entity as Dreamworks SKG.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2015
    justin boggan wrote
    You have to understand, you're Thor.


    Care to explain what you mean, then, for us who are too dense to understand?
    I am extremely serious.
  6. Jim Ware wrote
    Also, Dreamworks Animation is not the same corporate entity as Dreamworks SKG.


    This. They're separate companies from the Dreamworks studio, now owned by... I think, Paramount?
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website

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