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GLENDALE, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that it is in the early development stages on a live arena show based on its upcoming March 26, 2010 release, "How to Train Your Dragon." DreamWorks Animation is collaborating with the Australia-based Global Creatures, the international entertainment group specializing in live theatrical productions employing the latest in state-of-the-art animatronic technology, to conceive and...

GLENDALE, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) announced today that CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is scheduled to present at the 37th Annual J. P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. ET. The event is being held at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston. A live and archived audio webcast of the presentation will be available at the Company's website at www.dreamworksanimation.com. About...

Series Based on Academy Award-Nominated Theatrical Blockbuster Set to Premiere in 2010 BURBANK, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a record-breaking ratings premiere of The Penguins of Madagascar, Nickelodeon today announced that it has ordered 26 episodes of its second co-production with DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA), Kung Fu Panda: The Series -- a new CG animated comedy series adapted from the studio's 2008 blockbuster film. Today's announcement, which strengthens...

Billy Elliot the Musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Broadway musical Monday. The show about a young boy from a working-class community who pursues a dance career against all odds also won the prizes for outstanding new score, choreography, lighting design, director of a musical for Stephen Daldry, featured actress in a musical for Haydn Gwynne and featured actor in a musical for Gregory Jbara. Hair garnered the outstanding revival of a musical honor and The Toxic...

A British couple said they spent three hours in makeup before their wedding so they could walk down the aisle as characters from the Shrek films. Christine England, 40, and Keith Green, 44, of Barnstaple, England, used green paint and costumes to turn themselves into Princess Fiona and Shrek while guests at the wedding dressed as other characters from the animated films, including Donkey and the Gingerbread Man, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. Every girl wants a fairytale wedding and I got...

A U.S. tour of Shrek the Musical is set to begin in Chicago in June 2010, the show's producers said. DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions made the announcement Thursday. The show, which has a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, will launch its national tour as part of the Broadway in Chicago Season Series. The musical will play the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre for a limited engagement. The tour announcement follows the...

The Outer Critics Circle has nominated God of Carnage, Irena's Vow, Reasons to Be Pretty and 33 Variations for its outstanding new Broadway play prize. The nominees in the new Broadway musical category are Billy Elliot the Musical, Rock of Ages, Shrek the Musical and A Tale of Two Cities. In the running for outstanding new off-Broadway play are Becky Shaw, Farragut North, Ruined, Shipwrecked! The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself,) and Why Torture is Wrong, and the...

Animated Blockbuster Breaks Several Records, Including Biggest Opening of 2009, Best 3D Opening Ever and Biggest Spring Opening for a Non-Sequel Animated Film HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The initial DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) 3D animated release "Monsters vs. Aliens" topped preliminary estimates to gross $59.3 million over the weekend at 4,104 locations, of which 1,550 were in 3D, including IMAX. In so doing, the film broke several box office records:...

Actor John Tartaglia says Broadway's Shrek the Musical, like the animated movies that inspired it, offers something for audience members of all ages. Tartaglia told UPI in a recent phone interview he thinks one of the reasons the films are so appealing is that they work on many different levels. The show kind of takes that even further, Tartaglia said. And I do like that. I like the fact that there's the kind of irony for adults -- the kind of wink, wink, nudge, nudge moments. And then,...

GLENDALE, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that the Company's first quarter results will be released on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, after the market close. DreamWorks Animation will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the results on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 4:30 p.m. (ET). Investors can access the call by dialing (800) 230-1059 in the U.S. and (612) 332-0107 internationally and identifying "DreamWorks...