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DreamWorks, L.L.C., doing business as DreamWorks SKG, is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming.

The initials "SKG" stand for the company's co-founders, Steven Spielberg (movie director and founder of Amblin Entertainment), Jeffrey Katzenberg (former head of the Walt Disney Company's film studios), and David Geffen (founder of Geffen Records). The company was founded in October 1994 with financial backing from Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft).

The first DreamWorks film released was The Peacemaker, in 1997.

DreamWorks Records never lived up to expectations and was sold in October 2003 to Universal Music Group, which now operates the label as DreamWorks Nashville.

The studio has had its greatest financial success with movies, specifically animated movies. Its Shrek 2 (2004) is the highest grossing animated film of all time. Based on this success, DreamWorks Animation has been spun off as its own publicly traded company. In fact, DreamWorks has emerged as the main competitor to Pixar in the age of computer-generated animation.

Below is a list of its productions as of 2004.

Films

• The Actors (2003)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Amistad (1997)
• Anchorman (2004)
• Antz (1998)
• Anything Else (2003)
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
• The Assumption (2004)
• Biker Boyz (2003)
• Cast Away (2000)
• The Cat in the Hat (2003)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Collateral (2004)
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Envy (2004)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• An Everlasting Piece (2000)
• Fatal Frame: The Movie (2004)
• Forces of Nature (1999)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• Gladiator (2000)
• The Haunting (1999)
• Head of State (2003)
• Hollywood Ending (2002)
• House of Sand and Fog (2003)
• In Dreams (1999)
• Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• The Love Letter (1999)
• Lucky Numbers (2000)
• Meet the Fockers (2004)
• Meet the Parents (2000)
• The Mexican (2001)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Mouse Hunt (1997)
• Old School (2003)
• Paulie (1998)
• Paycheck (2003)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998)
• The Ring (2002)
• The Ring Two (2004)
• The Road to El Dorado (2000)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Road Trip (2000)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Seabiscuit (2003)
• Shark Tale (2004)
• Shrek (2001)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
• Small Soldiers (1998)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
• The Stepford Wives (2004)
• Surviving Christmas (2004)
• The Terminal (2004)
• The Time Machine (2002)
• Tusker (2004)
• Tuxedo, The (2002)
• Walk the Talk (2000)
• What Lies Beneath (2000)
• Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn (2004)
• Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)

In production

• Appearances (2005)
• Back Roads (2005)
• Bee Movie (2005)
• Flushed Away (2006)
• Hammer Down (2005)
• The Hands of Shang-Chi (2005)
• The Heartbreak Kid (2006)
• The Island (2006)
• Killing Pablo (2005)
• Madagascar (2005)
• Magick (2005)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
• Over the Hedge (2005)
• Shrek 3 (2006)
• The Talisman (2005)
• Tortoise Vs. Hare (2005)
• Untitled Alexander the Great Project (2005)
• Baywatch (2006)
• Untitled Marlene Dietrich Project (2006)
• Untitled Steven Spielberg 1972 Olympics Project (2006)
• The Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit (2005)
• War of the Worlds (2005)

TV series

• Alienators: Evolution Continues (2001)
• Band of Brothers (2001) (mini series)
• Champs (1996)
• Freaks and Geeks (1999)
• High Incident (1996)
• Ink (1996)
• Invasion America (1998)
• Job, The (2001)
• Oliver Beene (2003)
• Pacific War, The (2006) (mini Series)
• Spin City (1996)
• Toonsylvania (1998)

TV specials

• The Hatching of "Chicken Run" (2000)
• Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport (2000)
• We Stand Alone Together (2001)
• What Lies Beneath: Constructing the Perfect Thriller (2001)
• Woody Allen: A Life in Film (2002)

Video Games

• Spyro The Dragon (1998)
• Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (1999)
• Spyro 3: Year of The Dragon (2000)
• Rachet and Clank (2002)
• Rachet and Clank: Going Commando (2003)
• Rachet and Clank: Up In Your Arsenal (2004)

Musical artists

Artists who were signed with the DreamWorks label include:

• Chris Rock
• Propellerheads
• Smash Mouth
• Elliott Smith
• Rufus Wainwright

External links

• Official webpage
• Listing of titles produced by DreamWorks SKG at the Internet Movie Database

• Hollywood movie studios