DreamWorks Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures announced on February 9, 2009, an exclusive long-term distribution and marketing deal with Steven Spielberg’s production company, DreamWorks Pictures. The first DreamWorks motion picture released under the Touchstone Pictures banner was I Am Number Four, on February 18, 2011. DreamWorks Animation is a separate company and not included in the deal.

Trade name: DreamWorks SKG

Founded: October 12, 1994; 30 years ago

Founders

• Steven Spielberg
• Jeffrey Katzenberg
• David Geffen

Location: 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608

Parent: Amblin Partners

Motion Pictures (My List)

2002: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

2011: I Am Number Four

2011: The Help

2011: Fright Night

2011: Real Steel

2011: War Horse

2012: People Like Us

2012: Lincoln

2013: The Fifth Estate

2013: Delivery Man

2014: Need for Speed

2014: The Hundred-Foot Journey

2015: Bridge of Spies

2016: The Light Between Oceans

Recommendations

1997: The Peacemaker
1997: Amistad
1997: Mouse Hunt
1998: Paulie
1998: Small Soldiers
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1998: Antz
1998: The Prince of Egypt
1999: The Haunting
1999: American Beauty
1999: Galaxy Quest
2000: The Road to El Dorado
2000: Gladiator
2000: Road Trip
2001: Shrek
2001: Evolution
2002: The Time Machine
2002: The Ring
2002: Road to Perdition
2002: Catch Me If You Can
2003: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2004: The Terminal
2004: Shrek 2
2004: Shark Tale
2005: The Ring Two
2005: Madagascar
2005: The Island
2005: Dreamer

Copyright Stamps

• DreamWorks LLC (1997–2008)
• DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC (2011–15)
• Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC

In September 2, 2015, it was reported that DreamWorks and Disney would not renew their distribution deal, which was set to expire in August 2016, with The Light Between Oceans being released in September as the final DreamWorks film distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under their original distribution agreement. Disney retained the film rights to the fourteen DreamWorks films (two through Universal Pictures and Disney; Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens and Steven Spielberg’s The BFG) it released, as well as acquiring the “DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC” copyright from DreamWorks and Reliance Entertainment on December 11, 2015. On December 16, 2015, Steven Spielberg, Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One partnered to launch the content production company Amblin Partners, relegating DreamWorks to a brand for adult-themed films produced under the new company.