Given their first chance to play this new entertainment technology, investors rushed to buy shares in Pixar , Steven Jobs ' computer animation company, this past November.
Top leaders from organizations including DreamWorks Animation, Fast Company, Zappos, Inkling and Black Rock City (aka Burning Man) participated in the project.
DreamWorks Animation is a public company that lives and dies on the performance of two or three films per year.
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DreamWorks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg took the animation arm of his company public in 2004, then sold the live-action business to Paramount.
DreamWorks co-founder JeffreyKatzenbergJeffrey Katzenberg took the animation arm of his company public in 2004, then sold the live-action business to Paramount, part of Viacom.
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DreamWorks Animation is a tough public company to love.
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But that doesn't mean he can stop innovating in the company's animation technologies to meet the changing tastes of consumers, who want ever more wow when they pay for a movie ticket.
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Chief executive, DreamWorks Animation, a film production company.
The company is working a short animation series, and is working on some distribution deals for the show.
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He bought Pixar, the company that breathed new life into animation, by digitizing it.
The Walt Disney Company now has two premiere computer animation studios with Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.
Uniquely in Hollywood, many of Disney's movies come not from its namesake studio but corporate siblings including Marvel Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and, soon, Lucasfilm, the company behind "Star Wars" that Disney acquired last year.
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One stellar company that builds this principle into its operating procedure is Pixar Animation Studios, known for such blockbusters as Cars, Toy Story, and Ratatouille.
Last month, the company failed to renew a lucrative film partnership with Pixar, a computer-animation business, after Disney accused Pixar of holding out for overly generous terms.
The company is active in the music business, produces feature films, television programmes and animation, and operates a cable business.
He's slumped at a large desk at KatzSmith Productions, the company he co-founded last year with his close friend and collaborator David Katzenberg, son of DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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