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...that in 1994 his company produced the year's top movie, The Lion King; the top-rated TV show, Home Improvement; and the hit Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast did not prevent industry prophets from warning that, with the forced exile of his boy-genius studio chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Eisner's kingdom was losing the magic...
...Seagram-owned entertainment giant MCA inked a 10-year deal with DreamWorks SKG, the studio created by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. MCA will distribute the studio's films internationally and its music- and home-video releases worldwide. Geffen valued the overall deal as potentially worth $1 billion...
...execs claim there isn't much that companies can do to restrain artists once they have them on their rosters. "Artists make records, not record companies,'' says David Geffen, the film and record producer who is now one-third of DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. "No record company tells them what to record...
Gates has invested in a variety of speculative alliances: with Hollywood's DreamWorks troika (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) to make interactive entertainment products; with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., to build interactive TV systems; with cellular-telephone pioneer Craig McCaw's Teledesic Corp., to build a network of low-flying telecommunications satellites...
DreamWorks SKG could become a nightmare if there are creative differences among the trio. The result could be similar to what happened when Katzenberg dramatically departed from the Walt Disney Co. One important difference is that the trio will be competing with other entertainment firms in Hollywood. These companies have been in business long enough to know the environment well. However, the director (Spielberg), the musician (Geffen) and the animator (Katzenberg) will not realize the threat that other companies pose until they are fully operational. The three will go their separate ways after establishing DreamWorks. But for now Hollywood...