DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures, officially called DW II Distribution Co., LLC,^[1] also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American movie studio. It has made or sold more than ten movies which made more than $100 million each at the box-office.

DreamWorks Pictures

Logo used since 2025
Trade name	DreamWorks SKG
Formerly	DreamWorks Distribution, LLC (1994–2006) DreamWorks LLC (1994–2008)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film
Founded	October 12, 1994; 31 years ago (1994-10-12)
Founders	Steven Spielberg Jeffrey Katzenberg David Geffen
Headquarters	100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, U.S.
Key people	Steven Spielberg (chairman) Jeff Small (CEO) Holly Bario (president of production)
Number of employees	80 (2012)
Parent	Paramount Pictures (2006–present) Amblin Partners (2015–present)
Divisions	DreamWorks Television (1994–present) DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1998–present) DreamWorks Interactive (50%) (1995–2000) DreamWorks Records (1996–2003) Go Fish Pictures (2000–2007)
Subsidiaries	DreamWorks Animation (1994–present) Pacific Data Images (1995–2004) GameWorks (50%) (1996–2001)
Website	amblin.com/movie/dreamworks/

History

DreamWorks began in 1994. It was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (making the SKG at the bottom of the DreamWorks logo). They own 72% of the company. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Paramount Pictures. The sale was done in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced that it would split from Paramount. It signed a $1.5 billion deal to make movies with India's Reliance ADA Group.^[2] Reliance gave $325M to help recreate DreamWorks studio as its own company. Clark Hallren led the Reliance team in making plans for the company.^[3][4] The movie studio is 50% owned by Reliance. Reliance is led by Anil Ambani.^[5]

The part of DreamWorks which makes animations was made into DreamWorks Animation SKG in 2004.