DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures (also known as DreamWorks SKG and formerly DreamWorks Studios, commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film distribution label of Amblin Partners. It was originally founded on October 12, 1994 as a live-action film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (together, SKG), of which they owned 72%. The studio formerly distributed its own and third-party films. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses of more than $100 million each.

In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006 (this version is now named DW Studios). 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. Since 2016, Universal Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by DreamWorks Pictures. Currently, DreamWorks operates out of offices at Universal Studios Hollywood.

DreamWorks is also distinct from its former animation division of the same name, which was spun-off in 2004 and became a subsidiary of NBCUniversal in 2016.[5] Spielberg's company continues to use the original DreamWorks trademarks under license from DreamWorks Animation.

Original[edit]
The original DreamWorks logo features a boy sitting on a crescent moon while fishing. The general idea for the logo was the idea of the company's co-founder, Steven Spielberg, who wanted a CGI image. Illustrator Robert Hunt was commissioned to execute the idea as a painting, and he used his son as the model.[48] The logo was then turned into a motion graphic at Industrial Light & Magic, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Films, Dave Carson and Clint Goldman.[49] It was animated by ILM animation supervisor Wes Takahashi.[50][51] Music accompanying the logo to start in many live-action DreamWorks films was specially composed by John Williams.

Animation[edit]
Further information: DreamWorks Animation § Logo

The animation logo originally had music adapted from the track "Fairytale" for the film Shrek, based on the children's picture book of the same name by William Steig. The logo was composed by Shrek co-composer Harry Gregson-Williams and made its debut in 2004, with the release of Shrek 2. Two years after its acquisition by Universal Pictures, it received a new fanfare composed by John Powell, the other composer of Shrek, adapting some cues from Shrek 2 and some tone from John Williams' fanfare to create the music for the logo. The new fanfare debuted in 2019, with the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, for which Powell also composed the score for.