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Box office set for record in 2007

U.S. box office sales ought to tip the scales at slightly less than $10 billion this year, an all-time record, followed by a couple years of anemic growth as higher ticket prices offset declining...

Breaking! Could bite-sized--but volatile--DreamWorks ... [Strikewatch]

Breaking! Could bite-sized--but volatile--DreamWorks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg be a secret WGA sympathizer? An operative reports from the Warner Bros. picket line: "Funny story today from the...

[Lost In Translation]

Quick-triggered DreamWorks mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg was reportedly involved in a simple misunderstanding during a recent visit to New York that resulted in a brief dust-up at the Four Seasons;...

Strikewatch: The Hidden Victims: Even billionaire moguls like DreamWorks' ...

Even billionaire moguls like DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg are worried about a possible strike; if the Guilds walk out and Hollywood is crippled by a prolonged work stoppage, he might have to...

In Brief: On a conference call about how much richer ...

On a conference call about how much richer Shrek the Third is making him, DreamWorks Animation's Jeffrey Katzenberg passes up a perfectly good opportunity to throw Paramount emperor Brad Grey under...

Second Acts: Brad Grey Daydreaming About What His Former Studio Chief Scorecard Entry Might Look Lik

LATimes.com uses the occasion of former Warner Bros. head Terry Semel's recent ouster from Yahoo! to assemble a handy, clip-n-save-quality scorecard helping you stay current on how your favorite...

NY Times: 'Top Directors See the Future, and They Say It's in 3-D'

If you are getting weary of reading so many articles about the second coming of 3-D, don't click here. But there's a good quote in this piece about 3-D movie production from Jeffrey Katzenberg, who...

Managing Expectations: A Cautious Jeffrey Katzenberg Not Expecting His Ogre To Smash Spider-Man's Re

Perhaps depressed that his evil, publicity-boosting plan to cut Jerry Seinfeld's zip-line with a comically oversized pair of scissors and send the Bee Movie star hurtling into the sea was foiled by a...

Bee-ing and Nothing-ness

At first glance, the always-disciplined Jeffrey Katzenberg might seem an unlikely heir to such flamboyant showmen as Sam Spiegel and the father-son team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind, but he’s master...

JEFFREY KATZENBERG: Justin Timberlake Ducks Out of Shrek-Whoring 'Idol' Duty

At some point during American Idol's recent blockbuster-pimping Shrek-tacular, in which DreamWorks mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and incomprehensibly accented sidekick Antonio Banderas consumed a puzzling...

DreamWorks Animation: First 3-D Pic Will Be 'Monsters vs. Aliens' in 2009

From Variety:DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said the studio considered adding 3-D effects to some of its 2007 and 2008 releases but wanted to produce pics with the new exhib process in...