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| DreamWorks Classics | |
| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Intellectual property |
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| Founded | May 2000 |
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| Headquarters | New York City, New York , U.S. |
| Key people | Eric Ellenbogen John Engelman Margie Cohn Claire Shaw (VP Consumer Products, United Kingdom) |
| Revenue | US$82 million[1] (2012) |
| US$19 million[1] (2012) | |
Number of employees | 80[2] (2012) |
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Classic Media, LLC, doing business as DreamWorks Classics, is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 2000 by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman,[5] the studio's library consists of acquired intellectual property catalogs and character brands, as well as the licensing rights for various third-party properties. In 2012, Boomerang Media sold Classic Media to DreamWorks Animation, and began trading under the name DreamWorks Classics (the legal name is still Classic Media, LLC).[6][7] DreamWorks Animation became a subsidiary of NBCUniversal in 2016.[8]
Classic Media was founded by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman in May 2000 after acquiring the United Productions of America (UPA) catalog and assets from the estate of Henry Saperstein.[5] Frank Biondi, the former head of Universal Studios, and film producer Steve Tisch invested in the company.[9] Classic Media then bought most assets of The Harvey Entertainment Company on March 11, 2001.[9][10] On August 16, 2001, Classic Media and Random House won a joint bid for the assets of Western Publishing, with Classic Media acquiring the entertainment division (including the Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics libraries[11]) and Random House acquiring the Little Golden Books publishing properties. Classic then purchased the rights to the Jay Ward characters and formed Bullwinkle Studios, a joint venture with Jay Ward Productions, to manage them sometime in 2002.[12][13] On October 31, 2003, Classic Media purchased the assets of the bankrupt Big Idea Entertainment catalog.[14] By 2007, Bullwinkle Studios became converted to a functioning studio.[6][15]
On April 7, 2005, the company underwent a recapitalization led by a group of investors, including Spectrum Equity Investors and existing investors headed by Pegasus Capital Advisors. Additionally, a senior debt facility of $100 million was secured through a bank group led by JP Morgan Chase Bank. With the deal, Spectrum became the majority owner over the existing investors, with a representative on the company board of directors.[11]
In August 2006, Classic Media announced a joint venture with ION Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Corus Entertainment and book publisher Scholastic Corporation to launch Qubo, a kids' entertainment network.[16]
On December 14, 2006, it was announced that Classic Media would be acquired by UK-based rival Entertainment Rights for $210.0 million.[17] Before the acquisition was completed, both companies announced distribution and production agreements with Genius Products LLC, replacing the Sony Wonder deal.[18]
Entertainment Rights fell in to administration on April 1, 2009. On the same day, Boomerang Media LLC, formed by Ellenbogen and Engelman in 2008 with equity funding from GTCR, announced that it would acquire Entertainment Rights' principal UK and American subsidiaries, including Classic Media, Inc. and Big Idea Entertainment, from its administrators.[19] On May 11, 2009, Boomerang Media announced that the former UK and American subsidiaries of Entertainment Rights would operate as a unified business under the name Classic Media, while Big Idea would operate under its own name.[3][4]
Classic Media purchased the then-upcoming manga-inspired television series My Life Me from the bankrupt TV-Loonland AG on February 20, 2010[20][21] and later bought the Noddy[22] and Olivia brands on March 7 and 19, respectively in 2012 from Chorion.[23]
On July 23, 2012, DreamWorks Animation announced that they would acquire Classic Media for $155 million from Boomerang Media, with the deal closing in September of that year.[6][7] Afterwards, Classic Media began trading as DreamWorks Classics to associate itself with its parent company, although the parent company remains under the Classic Media name.
On October 3, 2012, DreamWorks Classics made its first post-DreamWorks sale by securing licensing and distribution rights to Studio Hari's The Owl & Co outside of France and other French-speaking territories.[24]
On September 17, 2013, DreamWorks Animation announced they had purchased the programming library of the British animation studio Chapman Entertainment, and placed distribution through DreamWorks' UK-based TV distribution operation.[25]
On June 18, 2014, DreamWorks Animation bought the Felix the Cat brand and added it to the DreamWorks Classics portfolio.[26]
On April 28, 2016, NBCUniversal announced it would buy out DreamWorks Animation in a $3.8 billion deal.[27] The buyout was completed on August 22.[8]
In January 2020, Classic Media pre-sold streaming rights to three series; Lassie, George of the Jungle and Mr. Magoo, by CBS All Access (now as Paramount+).[28]
US SVOD CBS All Access is growing its children's programming with three new animated series from DreamWorks Animation-owned distributor Classics Media.
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Classic Media, LLC, doing business as DreamWorks Classics, is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 2000 by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman, the studio's library consists of acquired intellectual property catalogs and character brands, as well as the licensing rights for various third-party properties. In 2012, Boomerang Media sold Classic Media to DreamWorks Animation, and began trading under the name DreamWorks Classics (the legal name is still Classic Media, LLC). DreamWorks Animation became a subsidiary of NBCUniversal in 2016.
DreamWorks may refer to: DreamWorks Pictures, an American film production company of Amblin Partners DreamWorks Television, an American television production company and television division of DreamWorks Pictures DreamWorks Records, an American record label and former division of DreamWorks Pictures later acquired by Universal Music Group DreamWorks Animation, an American animation company and former animation division of DreamWorks Pictures that is now currently owned by Comcast (through NBCUniversal) since 2016 DreamWorks Animation Television, an American television animation studio, production company, and the arm and label of DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Classics, a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation and formerly known as Classic Media DreamWorks Experience, a themed land at the Dreamworld theme park in Australia DreamWorks Interactive, a video game production arm later acquired by Electronic Arts DreamWorks Channel, a pay television network owned and operated by the NBCUniversal International Networks division of NBCUniversal
MeTV Toons is an American broadcast television network owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting in partnership with Skydance Corporation that launched on June 25, 2024, as a spin-off of MeTV. The network's programming mainly consists of classic animated content owned by Skydance Corporation (including Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, and Terrytoons libraries), NBCUniversal (DreamWorks Classics, Total Television, Jay Ward Productions, Filmation, United Productions of America, and Walter Lantz Productions libraries), Sony Pictures Entertainment (Screen Gems and United Productions of America libraries), WildBrain (Cookie Jar Group, DIC Entertainment, and Jay Ward Productions libraries), MPI Media Group, and Shout! Studios dating from the 1930s to the 2010s.
PBJ was an American digital broadcast children's television network originally a joint venture between Luken Communications (now Get After It Media) and Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics). PBJ launched on August 1, 2011, and had nineteen broadcast affiliates. The channel quietly closed at the end of March 2016.
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