Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

"...Sky High director Mike Mitchell, and the folks at DreamWorks Animation. Hand these guys some Gatorade, buy a SXSW..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap

Sheet music

"...producing a bounce album. Waving the prospects of a Dreamworks contract under the noses of hungry rappers, Cohn builds..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Into the Blue

Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness

"...The Island (Dreamworks, $29.99): Thrill to the psychodrama of Michael Bay restraining..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

The rise of the networks' fall

"...of the Pride. The first prime-time CGI-animated series from DreamWorks Animation is created by Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose Shrek films..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Cedar Street Courtyard Although her anticipated debut sits in post-DreamWorks limbo, this Australian MC is more than just the..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Upping the Animé

Satoshi Kon's 'Tokyo Godfathers' is social commentary transposed onto a toonscape: an interview

"...define Japanese animated films in juvenile terms. This despite DreamWorks picking up the director's second feature -- the elegiac..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...days. In the wake of the box-office success of Dreamworks' Shrek, many of the larger, California-based film studios are..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rufus Wainwright

Record Review

"...Rufus WainwrightWant One (Dreamworks) Everyone knows that scene at the end of Sunset..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...was the time when suddenly everyone was producing animation. DreamWorks was starting an animation department, Warner was doing animation,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Eels

Record Review

"...EelsShootenanny! (DreamWorks) The Eels craft the sort of dormitory melancholy you..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Music Review by Matt Dentler

'Lost Ark,' Resurrected

Three boys, seven years TK, and one heck of an homage -- a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark that earned the blessing of their hero.

"...a fan. So when Roth had a meeting at DreamWorks -- run by Steven Spielberg -- he slipped a..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Friends & Neighbors, an Albini-produced EP setting up their Dreamworks debut. With Lillian Berlin's deft balance of rage and..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

The Producers

The fourth annual National Association of Latino Independent Producers conference met in San Antonio Nov. 7-10 to talk shop and fête its most promising players.

"...of a Feature Package" plenary with Mike Grillo of Dreamworks SKG (American Beauty), attorney and executive producer John Sloss..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Sugar on the Asphalt

How Jimmy Eat World bleeds teen angst tunefully, responsibly

"...would never have guessed it was issued by mega-label DreamWorks. Actually, one would never have guessed the band was..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Sparta, The Fall on Deaf Ears

Record Review

"...SpartaWiretap Scars (DreamWorks)The Fall on Deaf Ears (Post-Parlo)..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

The Woodman Cometh

In promotion of his new film 'Hollywood Ending,' reluctant traveler Woody Allen appeared briefly in Austin to talk bats, barbecue, and why he'll never go back to stand-up.

"...colleges. I've done all colleges ... two years ago. DreamWorks tries to find these ideas to promote the films...."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a new bassist, as Sparta. They promptly inked with DreamWorks, recording the Jim Ward-fronted Austere EP, which doesn't miss..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...mode with the slacker-soul of the brand new Souljacker (DreamWorks), chock-full of guest performances from folks like Koool G..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Last Waltz DVD/box set hype, he's brought his and Dreamworks' latest signing, Eastmountain South. Though now based in L.A.,..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

SXSW News

"...showcase last night, A&R reps from Elektra, Columbia, and Dreamworks were expected to attend. Of course, weirdness has already..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Running a Dom Perignon PR Campaign on a Miller Lite Budget

Conference Panel

"...Wuelfing (Columbia Records), Kay Clary (FrontPage Publicity), Bryn Bridenthal (DreamWorks), Jim Merlis (Big Hassle), and Matt Hanks (Shore Fire..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Eels

SXSW Records

"...EelsSouljacker (Dreamworks) Sing along, "Odelay ... Odelay ..." Jesus, when did..."

March 8, 2002 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Short Cuts

More Harry to love: Ain't It Cool News guru Harry Knowles hits the shelves and the airwaves.

"...-- www.aint-it-cool-news.com -- knows what to expect, although with Dreamworks honcho Mike DeLuca blurbing "Knowles is the Indiana Jones..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...special-effects extravaganza directed by Simon Wells (H.G.'s great-grandson), had DreamWorks brass fearing it might get lost in the holiday..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...Inc. looks likely to take a bite out of DreamWorks' summer-of-Shrek, with the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman,..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...The Last Castle (DreamWorks)..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature

Jimmy Eat World

"...Jimmy Eat WorldBleed American (DreamWorks) 2001 will go down as the year tuneful, bracing..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Rufus Wainwright Poses

"...Rufus WainwrightPoses (Dreamworks) Talking about Rufus Wainwright, we find ourselves slightly mortified...."

July 27, 2001 Music Review by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Austin literary agent Jim Hornfischer hasn't been sleeping. He's taking the bar at the end of the month, he and his wife have three children, and he recently founded his own agency, Hornfischer Literary Management, Inc., after eight years with The Literary Group, an agency headquartered in New York known for handling celebrity books.

"...bestseller, and the film rights have been sold to DreamWorks; Austin's Bill Broyles is writing the screenplay). Among local..."

July 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

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