| Landguy said: Again, I didn't make my point clear. Sony bought Columbia pictures back in 1989. When they decided to start Sony Animation Studios(a division of Columbia which was owned by its parent Sony), that is how this whole thing came to light. The same can be said for Dreamworks. The small company inside of Dreamworks, was Dreamworks Animation. Pixar was also made up of lots of small companies. Most large companies are this way. When it comes to quoting $267 million for Shrek, that was the revenue generate by the movie, not the profit. Dreamworks Animation itself would have only seen a small percentage (probably only 20-30%)of the actual profit($30-40 million) as they distributed all of their movies through movie studios(Paramount at the time I think) with distribution arms. My point was that many of these companies worked togther on many projects through various deals in place by them or their parent companies. Because of that, they may have had an understanding that they would not harm themselves through cut throat business practices. By harming thm, they would in fact be harming themselves. I don't disagree, that this may have impacted the earnings potential of these employees in the short term. But it could just as easily proven to hurt their ability to be employed later by other studios. That was my point in bringing up the demise of Sony's animation studio. They burned the bridges(partnerships) with other studios and eventually failed. Not sure how that helped anyone else out. It probabaly damaged the careers of those who got involved to a degree. Remeber, these "agreements" may have stopped companies from directly approaching employees without consent, but proabably couldn't stop these employees from seeking employment on their own. That is what the Law was about(or at least its apllication here). |
Well Shrek actually made $492 million worldwide. Indicating Dreamworks got $98 to $148 million, not to mention just as much off of DVD sales, according to your %'s...which are flat out deceiving.
If you look at Shrek 2, it is documented as generating >$360 million of revenue for a single quarter for Dreamworks alone, off of DVD sales and the tail end of theaters.
Dreamworks IS and WAS a very large company.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
