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Spielberg, Steven
Is a well know American film director, producer, screenwriter, video game designer and much more. Through out his teen years he made 8mm "adventure" films, he even charged admissions at his home to watch them. At 13 he he won a prize for a 40 minute film and at 16 he wrote and directed his his first independent film that was 140 minutes long.
He started his professional television career in 1969, which then landed him a short contract with Universal Studio's. Soon after he was offered the directors chair in Jaws, it won 3 Academy Awards. "Jaws made him a household name, as well as one of America's youngest
multi-millionaires, and allowed Spielberg a great deal of autonomy for his future projects."
Spielberg shot down the offers to direct King Kong, Superman, and Jaws2. He wrote and directed Close Encounters of a 3rd kind. In return it won several Academy Awards and Oscars. He then went on to be nominated for numerous awards in his work for Indian Jones, E.T.. Between 1982 and 1985 he produced Poltergeist, The Twilight Zone, The Goonies, Gremlins, & The Color Purple.
1987 he shot the first American Film in China since the 1930's Empire of the Sun.
1989 He directed the 3rd Indiana Jones film.
1991 was Hook,
1993 Jurassic Park and then Schindler's list.
Katzenberg, Jeffery
In 1975 Katzenberg worked for Paramount Pictures in the Marketing & Television departments. "He continued to work his way up and became President of Production under Chief Operating Officer Micheal Eisner". He was also in-charge of and successful in reviving the Star Trek franchise.
In 1984 Katzenberg was brought over into Disney when Eisner became the CEO of The Walt Disney Company. At first he was to turn around the adult-oriented comedies under the title Touchstone Pictures.
"Katzenberg was also charged with turning around Disney's ailing Feature Animation unit". It is then when Disney started creating there highest grossing animated films. Katzenberg also got the deal that created the partnership between Pixar and Disney and Miramax Films . In 1994 the positioned opened up for the president and Katzenberg felt like he earned and deserved this position, though Eisner would not give it to him. He was forced to resign from Disney, he sued and settled out of court for $250 Million.
Geffen, David
Is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist.
Geffen founded Asylum Records in 1970. "The label was distributed by Atlantic Records at this time." Soon After Warner Communications took it over and merges it with Elecktra Records. Geffin was in charge of the record label until 1975 when he became the Vice Chairman of Warner Bothers film Studios.
1980 He founded Geffen Records he had many famous artist sign on to his record label. In 1990 the label was sold to MCA, and then somehow ended up being Universal music Group.
"It started all the way back in 1980 when Carl Rosendahl founded Pacific Data Images, a company that would go on to help found the DreamWorks Animation world. For a good part of the '80s, PDI created mostly just animated logos and worked on some television advertisements, but their first foray into film work was a huge one, contributing special effects to James Cameron's landmark Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen founded DreamWorks SKG (the first initials of their last names) in 1994 and the two companies, PDI and SKG, eventually formed a co-production deal in 1996 which led to their first big-screen animated feature the next year, the CGI comedy"(UGO)
