DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures, officially DW II Distribution Co., LLC, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, or simply DreamWorks, is a California film studio which develops, produces, and distributes live action films,  and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totaling more than $100 million each. Most of the films from the new DreamWorks (DW II Distribution Co,LLC) are marketed and distributed by The Walt Disney Studios under its Touchstone Pictures label and Mister Smith Entertainment.

DreamWorks began in 1994 as an attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (forming the SKG present on the bottom on both the DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation logos) to create a new Hollywood studio of which they owned 72%. The studio has had its greatest financial success with movies, specifically animated movies. The studio has had its greatest financial success with movies, specifically animated movies. DreamWorks Animation (Who would later become a separate company in 2004)  teamed up with Pacific Data Images (now known as PDI/DreamWorks) in 1996, emerging as the main competitor to Pixar in the age of computer-generated animation and one of the few competitors to Disney in creating traditionally animated feature films. DreamWorks' animation arm has produced some of the highest grossing animated hits of all time, such as Antz (1998),The Prince of Egypt (1998), Chicken Run (2000), Shrek (2001), and its sequel Shrek 2 (2004), before it has been spun off on October 27, 2004 as its own publicly traded company simply know as DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.

In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the live action studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. When DWA discovered that DreamWorks was acquried by Paramount, It was annouced that DreamWorks Animation terminated their deal with DreamWorks, and decided to release it movies through Paramount instead. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio as a new independent entity known as DreamWorks II Distribution Co LLC. Whom was the Successor of The Old DreamWorks Studios (DW Studios LLC). Clark Hallren, former Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries group of J.P. Morgan Securities and Alan J. Levine of J.P. Morgan Entertainment Advisors led the Reliance team in structuring the capital and business plan for the company.