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詳しく読んでいないけれど、今日のUSA TODAYによると、スピルバーグのドリームワークスがディズニーと提携したそうな。

来年にも提携作が公開されるとか。スピルバーグにとっては、憧れのディズニーと手を組めて嬉しいのかもね。ちなみにアニメ部門は対象外。そりゃ、さんざん『シュレック』でディズニーにケンカ売るようなシーンを織り込んでましたもの。

USA TODAYの記事コピー
DreamWorks partners with Disney
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

Steven Spielberg has found a home in the Disney castle.
The filmmaker's DreamWorks Studios, in the market for a larger company to
help support and distribute its films, worked out a deal Monday to partner with The Walt Disney Co. after an abrupt split with Universal Pictures late last week.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this enables Spielberg and partner
Stacey Snider to move ahead on a number of scripts awaiting the go-ahead.
They made such films as Transformers, Disturbia and Tropic Thunder at their
former home, Paramount Pictures. Spielberg recently spent about $27 million
to buy back projects that were being developed there for a new incarnation
of DreamWorks.

The arrangement does not include DreamWorks Animation, maker of the
Shrek and Madagascar films, which broke off on its own as a separate
company — and is a rival to Disney and its partner Pixar.

Disney officials said they would be releasing about six DreamWorks films a
year, and the first one would likely be in 2010. DreamWorks officials hope
to begin rolling on their first new live-action film this summer. The details of
the first projects have not yet been revealed.

Spielberg had initially been enthusiastic about partnering with Universal,
which made his early hits Jaws and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. But the
worldwide economic woes tied up outside financing he and Snider aligned,
and attempts to rework the deal failed.

Universal's sudden announcement that it was finished with DreamWorks was
a rare flash of hostility in Hollywood, where happy endings in business deals
are often as forced as they are in the average romantic comedies, and even
breakups occur amid smiling faces.

The troubled talks with Universal led DreamWorks to Disney, one of its original
suitors.

"Disney is the birthplace of imagination," Spielberg said in a statement, adding
that the company appealed to DreamWorks because it has one of Hollywood's
best operations for reaching out to a worldwide audience.

The arrangement also benefits Disney, which has had trouble in recent years
developing grown-up fare such as Sweet Home Alabama, Unbreakable and The
Royal Tenenbaums.

Bob Iger, Disney president and CEO, praised DreamWorks' "creative and
commercial track record" and said Spielberg's "artistic vision and
commitment to quality filmmaking are legendary."

by matc_tomo | 2009-02-10 13:21 | 普段のできごと

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