skunkandburningtires:

Good News for DreamWorks Fans!

(…And Animation Fans, In General)



Steve Hulett, Business Representative of The Animation Guild reports, “I spent a large part of my afternoon at DreamWorks Animation Glendale campus, where animators are on the last few weeks of Kung Fu Panda 3, due for release at the end of January, 2016.

“[While there,] one staffer told me, ‘Jeffrey [Katzenberg] is more focused on the features than he’s been in years. He was stepping away and getting involved in other things. He thought he could leave more of the day-to-day oversight to his executives, but that didn’t work out the way he hoped. But now he’s involved in most of the decisions for the movies in development. Like he was back at the start of the studio.‘”



Awesome, awesome, AWESOME!

I know a lot of folks – myself included – get pretty frustrated with Katzenberg’s odd obsessions with stuff like ‘the future of 3D,’ announcing faraway theme parks that never actually get built, and selling his company for billions and billions of dollars, but when the man is devoting his talents and energies to making animated feature films, the results are often legendary.

The Little Mermaid. Beauty and the Beast. Aladdin. The Lion King.



These are but a handful of the classic cartoons that Katzenberg has shepherded to the silver screen. Here’s hoping that his refreshed focus will result in many, many more.

Welcome back, Jeffery!

