Last year Steven Spielberg took his DreamWorks studio (which produced Transformers) and moved it to Disney along with any future great ideas the director might hatch.
Spielberg, who is in India, told The Times of India newspaper that the film would be produced by his DreamWorks studio and the Mumbai-based Reliance Entertainment.
Paramount co-produced War of the Worlds with Spielberg's Dreamworks studio.
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Spielberg also gets a consistent cut of the ticket sales at Universal Studios amusement parks in addition to the money he earns at DreamWorks studio and his directing fees.
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On June 17th the Wall Street Journal reported that one of India's biggest conglomerates, Anil Ambani's Reliance group, was in talks to form a film-making partnership with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio, owned by Viacom, a media giant.
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Paul Rademacher, a programmer at film studio DreamWorks SKG, was looking for an apartment and, when he was not rendering Shrek 2, figuring out how Google Maps worked.
"It's a preconception with a modern house that everything in it has to be really small, " said Mr. Damaschke, 48-year-old chief creative officer at movie studio DreamWorks Animation, noting the 15-seat couch that anchors the living room.
DreamWorks SKG , the studio formed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen , has similar dreams.
DreamWorks, a new studio set up by a trio of Hollywood moguls, will start production in the next year or so, adding to the competition.
DreamWorks Animation is building a studio in Shanghai with local partners.
In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
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If fewer people see DreamWorks movies as a result of this new partnership, the studio could ultimately lose money on the deal.
The studio said Littleton, while asking for more money from DreamWorks after it bought one of his horses, falsely accused the company of neglecting the horse.
Much of that responsibility at DreamWorks Animation falls to Bill Damaschke, the co-president of production at the studio.
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The L.A. Times story says that while Dreamworks would not say now many people might be affected, a union official at the studio says the number of jobs lost is likely to be in the 250-450 range.
On the studio front, Paramount was the most represented with four on the list, including DreamWorks Animation projects.
One was that its grandiose plans to set up a new studio on an expanse of marshland north of Los Angeles airport got into trouble, leaving DreamWorks embroiled in nasty rows with both environmentalists and developers, and with premises inefficiently scattered around the city.
Marvel President Kevin Feige called his approach "a confidence-booster" and DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider said a note from Mr. Horn prompted a decision to rework the epilogue of her studio's coming movie "The Fifth Estate, " about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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DreamWorks is also at a disadvantage because it only releases 2-3 films per year as opposed to a big studio which might release 25 films per year.
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