" 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.

Computer animation helped make blockbuster films such as Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) ( Disney / Pixar ), Avatar ( 2009 ), Shrek 2 ( 2004 ) ( DreamWorks Animation ), and Cars 2 ( 2011 ) ( Disney / Pixar ).

In 2012, Classic Media was sold to DreamWorks Animation and renamed DreamWorks Classics.

In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

" The agreement does not include DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the most profitable part of the company that went public the previous year.

On October 6, 2008, DreamWorks executives were starting a new DreamWorks having license from DreamWorks Animation to use the DreamWorks name.

In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the animated feature, Rango, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.

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

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.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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

The latter is a spin-off of the popular DreamWorks Animation film series, Kung Fu Panda ( film series ).

Since the late 2000s, after the channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation in 2006 to develop the studio's animated films into weekly series, the channel often can be compared to Cartoon Cartoons from Cartoon Network.

Zimmer's next project was The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ), which was produced by DreamWorks Animation.

In August 2012, 20th Century Fox signed a five-year deal with DreamWorks Animation to distributed their domestic and international markets.

" Roger Ebert reported that Oldman's denunciation of the film never happened, and quoted Urbanski as saying Oldman is " the least political person I know " ( against outlets calling him a " conservative " for his comments ) and taking credit for producing the film independently from DreamWorks, which eventually adopted it.

" The band eventually signed with DreamWorks Records, which was then taken over by Interscope Records.

With consistently lacking revenue, the label would eventually be dismantled, with much of its roster absorbed into Geffen Records in 2004 ( other acts went to Interscope, while starting in 2007, many of the alternative groups once signed to DreamWorks moved to DGC Records ).

In 2006, as mentioned earlier, Paramount became the parent of DreamWorks SKG.

In 2001, Ron and Ernie released the album, Eternal on DreamWorks Records, which became one of their biggest-selling releases in years, selling over two million copies and peaking at # 3 on the Billboard 200, sparked by the top 20 hit, " Contagious ".

DreamWorks released a music video for the single " Early to Bed "; directed by Jamie Caliri and released in March 1997, the nightmarish yet humorous video became an instant favorite among fans and was later nominated for a Grammy award.

He was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games ( which became LucasArts Entertainment ), DreamWorks Interactive ( which became EALA ), and The 3DO Company ( which became defunct ).

In late 2008, DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films are distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

Eels became one of the first groups to sign a record deal with DreamWorks Records, followed by Elliott Smith.

* Joe Cannizzaro ( Dunderhead ) became a television / video producer and was a videographer for DreamWorks Animation SKG.

In 2008, the live-action DreamWorks studio again became an independent production company, releasing its films through Disney.

In 2006, Paramount Pictures became the primary distributor of animated features produced by DreamWorks Animation, many of which, such as Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, were notable critical and financial successes.

After DreamWorks became independent again, their live-action studio announced a distribution pact with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

This edit has been made available in original color form by former rights holders Classic Media, which in 2012 became the DreamWorks Classics division of DreamWorks Animation.

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.

Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks in 1997 by some of Amblin Entertainment's former animation branch Amblimation alumni, it was spun off into a separate public company in 2004.

Geffen's absorption of the MCA and DreamWorks labels, along with its continuing to sign new acts such as Ashlee Simpson, Angels & Airwaves, Snoop Dogg, and The Game, had boosted the company to the extent that it began gaining equal footing with the main Interscope label, leading some industry insiders to speculate that it could revert back to operating as an independently managed imprint at UMG again.

In 1994, the death of Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells, and the departure of studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg to co-found DreamWorks, left Michael Eisner in full control of the company.

He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and does films like The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and works with other composers through the company which he founded, Remote Control Productions.

DreamWorks beat out studios like Universal Studios and Warner Bros. and largely won due to the perseverance of DreamWorks co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who as a company were eager to make their presence felt in the animation market in an attempt to compete with Disney's dominance of the field.

The company also developed the games In Cold Blood and The Road to El Dorado ; a game based on DreamWorks ' 2001 animated film.

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.

* DreamWorks Animation SKG – Formerly co-owned by Vulcan, later spun off as an independent company.

* Pacific Data Images ( 1980 – 2000 ), former American computer animation production company, purchased by DreamWorks

The show, which was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg and his company DreamWorks Animation, revolves around a family of white lions, the patriarch of which stars in a Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas.

However, a few post-1998 films still had distribution by Columbia or a related company, such as Envy ( distributed by Columbia outside the US, as DreamWorks had American rights ), or the 2007 remake of Sleuth ( through the Sony Pictures Classics division in North America ; Paramount Pictures handled distribution in a few other English-speaking countries ).

Examples include Michael Eisner ( who was President & COO of Paramount Pictures while Diller was Chairman & CEO of Paramount Pictures, who went on to become Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company ), Dawn Steel ( future head of Columbia Pictures and the first woman to run a movie studio, who worked under Diller at Paramount ), Jeffrey Katzenberg ( head of PDI / DreamWorks Animation, principal of DreamWorks SKG, former head of Walt Disney Studios, and a head of production of Paramount under Diller ), Garth Ancier, President of BBC America, and Don Simpson, who was President of Production at Paramount under Diller and Eisner, was also included – he later went on to run a production company based on the Disney lot with Jerry Bruckheimer.

On July 23, 2012, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation acquired Classic Media for $ 155 million ; the company will be a division of DreamWorks Animation and renamed DreamWorks Classics.

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 ).

In a quest to cut costs, DreamWorks SKG sold the label to Universal Music Group ( MCA's successor company ) in October 2003.

In 2012, animation studio DreamWorks Animation purchased Harvey Comics parent company Classic Media, for $ 155 million.