Mark Johnson and Charles Newirth produced the film for DreamWorks, and David Newman composed the music score.

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

This acquisition was seen at the time as a stopgap measure as Brad Grey had been unsuccessful in assembling sufficient films for production and distribution and the DreamWorks films would fill the gap.

As for the DreamWorks Animation library, Paramount owns distributions rights to the present library, and their current distribution deal to future DWA titles expires after 2012.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beautys chances of Academy Award success ; at the 72nd Academy Awards the following year, the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( for Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and Steven Spielberg in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the project at DreamWorks ; he received assurances from the studio — known at the time for its more conventional fare — that it would not " iron the out ".

In an unusual move, DreamWorks decided not to option the script ; instead, in April 1998, the studio bought it outright for $ 250, 000, outbidding Fox Searchlight Pictures, October Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lakeshore Entertainment.

DreamWorks planned to make the film for $ 6 – 8 million.

Mendes had Spacey and Bening in mind for the leads from the beginning, but DreamWorks executives were unenthusiastic.

DreamWorks made around one million copies available for rental ; Blockbuster's share would usually have been about 400, 000 of these.

DreamWorks had launched a major campaign for American Beauty five weeks before ballots were due to be sent to the 5, 600 Academy Award voters.

Nancy Willen encouraged DreamWorks to produce a special about the making of American Beauty, to set up displays of the film in the communities ' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign.

In 2002, California's AFI signed to DreamWorks Records and changed its sound considerably for its successful major label debut Sing the Sorrow.

On July 23, 2012, Classic Media was purchased by DreamWorks Animation for $ 155 million.

In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums.

He also represented DreamWorks SKG and Steven Spielberg in defeating an application for an injunction against exhibition of Amistad.

She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

Witherspoon next provided the voice for Susan Murphy, the main character of the computer-animated 3-D feature film Monsters vs. Aliens, which had a March 27, 2009, release from DreamWorks Animation.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

Plans to move forward with DreamWorks ' adaptation have resurfaced in 2010 since the announcement that Legend of the Guardians screenwriter John Orloff is penning the script for director Anand Tucker.

Pathé and Aardman had both been developing the film since 1996, whilst DreamWorks officially came aboard in 1999.

It has a similar distribution set-up to the parent film: DreamWorks handles ancillary rights in North America, while Trifecta Entertainment & Media handles syndication on behalf of its animation department ( which has been its own company since 2004 ), and Paramount Home Entertainment handles DVD rights.

In 2004, DreamWorks Animation ( DWA ) was spun off from DreamWorks as a separate company headed by Katzenberg in an IPO and has recorded mostly profitable quarters since then.

DreamWorks ( which was co-founded by Spielberg ) has distributed a number of Amblin productions since 1994.

On August 31, 2005, Keith parted ways with Universal Music Group — which had since bought DreamWorks — and launched his own record label, Show Dog Nashville.

Around the same time of then-CPT's formation, Viacom completed its acquisition of DreamWorks SKG, so then-CBS Paramount Television got distribution rights to DreamWorks ' library of films ( such as Shrek and Gladiator ) originally in co-operation with Tribune Entertainment, while being solely responsible for DreamWorks ' TV series ( such as Spin City, which PDT was already distributing anyway having done so since the show's reruns debuted in syndication in 2000, and Father of the Pride ).

Morris ' removal led to speculation that Ostin was being courted to return to WBR, but these reports proved unfounded, since Ostin and Waronker moved to DreamWorks soon after.

As such, S & S continues to publish books based on Viacom properties, which since 2006 has included many DreamWorks films ( Paramount / Viacom owned DreamWorks outright between 2006 – 08, back catalog still owned by Paramount / Viacom ).

A direct-to-video sequel called Road Trip: Beer Pong was released on August 11, 2009, this time by Paramount Famous Productions as Paramount Pictures had acquired DreamWorks ' back catalog in its 2006 purchase of the company ( since undone ).

An animated feature film based on the characters of Mister Peabody and Sherman has been in development at DreamWorks Animation at least since 2007.

Giacchino has since continued his relationship with DreamWorks which also included composing the score for the Small Soldiers video game in 1998, providing full orchestral scores for many of their popular videogames.

But as of 2012 it is not known if he's still involved with Disney as he currently moved on to DreamWorks Animation since 2010.

As a result of Paramount's 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks, Paramount has gained North America distribution rights as well ( though still through the DreamWorks division ).

On February 1, Paramount completed its long-awaited acquisition of DreamWorks.

Some of the TV series cartoons ( from 1958 to 1959 ) were released on DVD by Classic Media, now known as DreamWorks Classics, due to the DreamWorks Animation acquisition.

which is now part of Classic Media, now DreamWorks Classics, due to the DreamWorks Animation acquisition.

" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG ( which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg ) in a deal worth $ 1. 6 billion.

As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.

In 2001 Harvey was purchased by Classic Media and on July 2012, Classic Media was purchased by DreamWorks Animation.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Research In Motion.

The film was distributed by DreamWorks in North America and by Paramount Pictures internationally.

The material recorded during these sessions led to her 1999 record deal with DreamWorks Records, where she was signed by A & R executive Beth Halper, partner of Garbage drummer and record producer Butch Vig.

" Mendes offered Bening the role of Carolyn without the studio's consent ; although executives were upset at Mendes, by September 1998, DreamWorks had entered negotiations with Spacey and Bening.

Although direct mail campaigning was prohibited, DreamWorks reached voters by promoting the film in " casual, comfortable settings " in voters ' communities.

Meanwhile, DreamWorks Records also folded, with artists such as Nelly Furtado, Lifehouse and Rufus Wainwright being absorbed by Geffen as well.

The deal does not include films from DreamWorks Animation ( the pay-cable rights to those films are held by HBO and Netflix starting in 2013 ).

The contract was later bought-out by DreamWorks prior to the release of his album, XO.

The Neverhood ( released in Japan as Klaymen Klaymen ) is a 1996 PC CD-ROM graphic adventure game created by animator Doug TenNapel and released by DreamWorks Studios.

In 2012, it was announced that Classic Media, owner of the Filmation library, would be acquired by DreamWorks Animation.

The latest animated series is with Gerald McBoing Boing ( 2005-2007 ), licensed and co-produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment and DreamWorks Classics, for Cartoon Network.

On July 23 2012, DreamWorks Animation purchased Classic Media for $ 155 million and as a result UPA is now owned by DreamWorks.