DreamWorks Animation Now Owns Everyone's Childhood

Written by Cole the Kid Critic Monday, 23 July 2012 20:47

Dreamworks Animation (Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon) just bought out Classic Media for $155 million and have now called the company Dreamworks Classic. So what did Classic Media do or have that calls for such a grand number? Well glad you asked, Classic Media was a animation/production/distribution company that had collected the rights to a lot of old kid properties. Now that Dreamworks bought them out they now have the rights (not all of them complete) to the following...(takes deep breath)

alt Postman Pat

Where's Waldo?

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Frosty the Snowman

The entire Filmation catalog (HUGE IN THE 80's) He-Man, Fat Albert, etc.

The Lone Ranger

Lassie

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Richie Rich

Rocky and Bullwinkle

Dudley Do-Right

Underdog

Tennessee Tuxedo

Gumby (that takes me back)

Felix the Cat

Mr. Magoo

Gerald McBoing-Boing

Little Golden Books (Pokey the Puppy Anyone?)

Turok

Little Lulu

Noddy (huge east of the Atlantic)

Olivia

Dick Tracy

Brenda Starr

US Rights to certain Godzilla films

Voltron

Defender of the Universe

Everything from Big Idea including Veggie Tales (VEGGIE TALES??)

All pre-50's United Artist movies

All together they have around 450 different properties that now belong to Dreamworks Animation.

Ty-Simpkins: Meet IRON MAN 3's 11-year Old Star

alt by Miranda R., Age 15

At 11 years old, Ty Simpkins already has quite a few credits on his resume. Simpkins has been in movies since he was barely 3 months old, and has roles in flicks such as Insidious, The Next Three Days, and Little Children. Maybe even more interesting is how many times he's been cast in films with his real life sister Ryan Simpkins - they play siblings in Revolutionary Road, Pride and Glory and Arcadia, among others.

alt But for Iron Man 3, Ty's first action movie, he goes it alone. Ty plays Harley Keener, an intelligent kid who has a run-in with Iron Man and actually helps him save the day.

Ty's favorite part of working on Iron Man 3 was being able to spend time with its star Robert Downey Jr. "Robert's really fun to work with. He's a really nice guy."

Like many kids his age, Ty is a huge Iron Man fan. "My favorite superhero is Iron Man and I'm not just saying that because I worked on the Iron Man movie. It actually is Iron Man," he says very emphatically....

To read more about Ty Simpkins, click HERE.