What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934? (2024)

If you know much about DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation, then you may know in our reality that both studios were founded in 1994 by entertainment legends Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, but just imagine this: what if DreamWorks Pictures was founded in 1934, starting as an animation studio until later expanding into a whole film production studio?

This may be what it could have been.

This theory is interconnected with the Sony Animation AU, the Om Nom AU, the 20th Century Animation AU, the Cuphead AU, the Argosy Media AU, the Disney AU, the Nickelodeon AU, the Joey Drew AU, the Nelvana AU, the Hanna Barbera AU, the Sega AU, the Nintendo AU, and the Tezuka AU.

List of changes

• DreamWorks would've been originally known as Wilson Cartoon Studio (1934-1937), Dora Wilson Productions (1938-1954) and then DW Film Company (1955-1979), DW Film Pictures (1955-1960), DreamWorks Pictures (1960-present), DreamWorks Studios (1980-present), and DreamWorks SKG (1997-present); and as well as DreamWorks Animation would've been DreamWorks' nameless animation department until 1955 where it named into DW Cartoon Department (1955-1960), DreamWorks Cartoon Studio (1960-1979), DreamWorks Animation Studios (1980-1985), DreamWorks Feature Animation (1986-1990), DreamWorks Animation (1990-present), DreamWorks Animation SKG (1997-present) and PDI/DreamWorks (1998-2015).
  • It would've had its original founders named Dora E. Wilson and Mike O. Wilson (not real people but just made-up) until their respective retirements in 1989 and in 1994 (with 1994's Trolls, 1995's Great Depression and The Prince and the Pauper and 1996's All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 as Dora Wilson's last films produced) and deaths in 1996 and 2000.
• DreamWorks would've had its own animated cartoon series named Dreamtoons, which would be the similar concept as Walt Disney cartoons, MGM cartoons, Walter Lantz cartoons and Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies.
  • Just like Mickey Mouse and Looney Tunes, Dreamtoons can have several TV incarnations, most notably The Dreamtoons Show, Joey's Mysteries and Zoo Tales (the latter which would been the AU's version to the Penguins of Madagascar TV series).
  • Two characters, Pudgy Parakeet and Gudge the Cat from the beginning animated scene in 20th Century Fox/Studios' 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, would've star in their short series part of the series, and would've debuted in 1971.
  • Scrat the Squirrel, the mascot of Blue Sky Studios and a supporting character from the Ice Age series, would debut in 1999 as part of Dreamtoons before appearing in the said film series and the production logo for Blue Sky Studios before its closure in 2021.
• DreamWorks would've had its action cartoon short series based on Marvel's Captain America, a similar vein to Max Fleischer/Paramount's cartoons based on DC Comics' Superman.
• Former Disney, Warner Bros. and MGM animator duo Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising would've been part of DreamWorks' animation veterans after DreamWorks would've acquired Harman-Ising Cartoons in 1952 and then folded into DreamWorks Animation, in around mid-1960s. Also, Harman and Ising's few cartoon series would've be produced for DreamWorks until it'd be incorporated into Dreamtoons, after Harman-Ising Cartoons folded into DreamWorks Animation.
• Disney and Van Beuren's Burt Gillett retired from animation career in 1940, while in this AU, he'd continue his career by working at DreamWorks in 1940 until his death in 1970.
• The longest living Disney animation legend Ruthie Tompson would've working with DreamWorks with a couple of animated films.
• After Total Television shut down in 1969, Underdog co-creator Joe Harris would move to DreamWorks and continue to work there until his death in 2017.
• Rankin/Bass veteran writer Romeo Muller would've a writer for DreamWorks animated films while writing for Rankin/Bass works throughout the 1980s to 1992.
• Bill Tytla, a veteran Disney, Paramount and Terrytoons animator would have worked at DreamWorks Animation.
• Well-known Spanish Argentine animator Manuel García Ferré would be a veteran animator for DreamWorks which worked from 1944 to 2000, and his animated films would be produced by DreamWorks Animation.
• Rankin/Bass co-founder Jules Bass would've become a DreamWorks veteran since 1987, after Rankin/Bass was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation.
• Children's book author and former Disney animator Bill Peet would've been a DreamWorks Animation veteran animator, storyboard artist, writer and director after he left Disney in 1964, while he was making picture storybooks.
• Animator Don Lusk would've worked for DreamWorks with some few animated products.
• Sam Singer, an animator who produced infamous cartoons such as Adventures of Pow Wow, The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican, Bucky and Pepito, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse and Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt, would have working at DreamWorks from late-1930s to mid-1940s before independently creating his own said cartoons, until he has returned to DreamWorks in 1966 and died in 2001.
• Nelvana co-founder Clive A. Smith would've worked at DreamWorks in the late 1960s on just two movies.
• Before its acquisition by NBCUniversal, DreamWorks Studios would've been one of the major American film studios, along with Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox (before its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company), Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lionsgate.
  • DreamWorks would've made distributing deals with movie companies to distribute its cartoons and films, such as Liberty Pictures (1934-1937), Republic Pictures (1937-1954; for cartoon shorts), MGM (1938-1948; for animated feature films), and Warner Bros. (1948-1954; for animated feature films) before DreamWorks decided to distribute their projects until mid-2000s where they stopped distribute their films and only producing them as always.
    • In the 1970s, they would’ve joined forces with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to form Cinema International Corporation (currently United International Pictures).
    • After acquiring DreamWorks Studios, NBCUniversal would owning the third largest animation catalogue in the United States, right after The Walt Disney Company and WarnerMedia.
• Ron Rodecker (1930-2021), an artist and the creator of Dragon Tales, would work at DreamWorks as concept and storyboard artist for some animated features and television programs (including design the characters for series such as Speller: The Enchanted Owl) before creating Dragon Tales.
• Stephen Hillenburg would be worked for DreamWorks after he left SpongeBob in 2004, before his death in 2018.
  • He would be create new IPs for DreamWorks Animation such as the television series Sailor Cat and Sailor Fish, Family of the Dead, Aura and Sally, Awesome Six, The Pet Adventures of Lego, Animal City, Male and Female, Rocky the Shrimp, Kevin and Violet (the latter which he would co-create with Kim Possible creators Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle), Tex and Avery (the latter which he would co-create with future The Loud House creator Chris Savino), Spy Madness (the latter which he would co-create with Rocko's Modern Life, Camp Lazlo, and Let's Go Luna! creator Joe Murray and Chowder and Harvey Beaks creator/Jellystone! developer C. H. Greenblatt, reuniting with them), Jimmy Two-Shoes and The Doggies (the latter which he would co-create with Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel creator David Feiss) and being an executive producer in some TV shows.
    • Neighbors from Hell would've been a spin-off of Jimmy Two-Shoes, and Lucius Heinoius and Samy would be in the place of Satan and his monkey servant.
• DreamWorks would've start producing and releasing non-Dreamtoons animated shorts in 1940, and animated feature films in 1942.
  • Real life, since DreamWorks' early years, the company is known with animated movies in two genres: occasional traditionally animated movies to be focus on epic standard, and CGI films commonly known for focusing on mostly comedies. So, imagine this if the company's films would've start off as Disney-esque cute and light-hearted musical animated films, with occasional dark and edgy standards, before Jeffrey Katzenberg would've retool DreamWorks' film history by focusing with CGI and traditionally animated comedies and a fewer epic and serious traditionally animated films, before mostly focusing on animated comedies with the use of both CGI and hand-drawn animation.
  • Some of the real-life canceled projects that DWA planned would've be produced.
  • Most of the films produced by DreamWorks Animation would remain in their actual release years, with a few exceptions.
    • In real life, DreamWorks only make CGI films due to the box office failure of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, but in this AU version they would've still making animated films with the use of both hand-made and CGI.
    • DreamWorks' original animated film Kung-Fu Panda would be produced in 1997 as a traditionally animated film instead of CGI and released in 2008, followed by two direct-to-video sequels.
    • Some of the sequels would've been direct-to-video.
    • Some of the real-life version of DreamWorks animated movies would've been part of The Dreamtoons Movie line-up:
      • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas; which in this AU version would be different compared to our real-life version; it would be G-rated (by removing some words) adding more characters, and more scenes and plot-points.
      • Madagascar series, which in this AU version would including more Dreamtoons characters.
      • Megamind would also include more Dreamtoons characters.
    • The main characters from the Madagascar films would've been stars that first debuted in Dreamtoons and later appearing in some Dreamtoons television series such as All Hail King Julien and Zoo Tales, and they would've been created by Alex Lovy, Tex Avery and Michael Lah:
      • Alex the Lion and Marty the Zebra would've been debuted in their own cartoon short series Alex and Marty. They would've originally created by Alex Lovy.
      • Melman and Gloria would've debuted as cameo/background characters in the 1990s and later becoming into main characters in most "modern" Dreamtoons media.
      • Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private would've be debuted in their own cartoon short series Penguins from A.N.I.M.A.L.S. They would've originally created by Michael Lah.
      • Manson and Phil would've also been debuted in their own cartoon short series of the same name. They would've originally created by Tex Avery and Michael Lah.
      • King Julien, Maurice and Mort would've also been debuted in their own cartoon short series King Julien. They would've originally created by Tex Avery.
        • All Hail King Julien would've been debuted in 1994 and ended in 2004 which would've made it as one of the longest-running animated television series in television history, along with Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones, FOX's The Simpsons and Family Guy, Comedy Central's South Park, and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and Rugrats.
    • The character Megamind would've be debuted as a comic book character in the Dreamtoons comics and later appearing in Zoo Tales in two of its episodes.
    • DreamWorks would've obtained the ownership rights to Screen Gems' cartoon library from Columbia Pictures in 1947, with The Fox and the Crow and Flippity and Flop would've been incorporated into the Dreamtoons series with new shorts.
    • The 2017 animated short film Bluehilda would've be a short series on Dreamtoons.
    • DreamWorks would've obtained the ownership rights to Screen Gems' cartoon library from Columbia Pictures in 1947, with The Fox and the Crow and Flippity and Flop would've been incorporated into the Dreamtoons series with new shorts.
    • Shrek 2 (titled Shrek 2: Kingdom of Far Far Away) would been released as a direct-to-video film instead of a theatrical film, making Puss in Boots as a standalone film instead, while Shrek Forever After, which would be the third and final film in the series, while Shrek the Third does not exists, and would be titled Shrek: Happily Ever After and also released as a direct-to-video film.
      • The theatrical releases of Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third would be replaced by theatrical re-releases of the original film.
      • The 2011 film Puss in Boots would've not only a standalone film as already said, but also would've been released in 2004 (replacing our real Shrek 2's theatrical release).
      • Also, Shrek 2 would have the ending scene from Shrek the Third, which would not exist at all.
      • Gingy the Gingerbread Man would appear in cameos in some DreamWorks Animation CGI films and A Graceful Ninja-Rina Movie, as the butt monkey in his scenes.
      • The Shrek short is Far Far Away Idol would've been a series of shorts who feature characters from other DreamWorks Animation films.
      • Arthur Pendragon from Shrek the Third would star in a standalone film, Hail Arthur instead.
      • In reality, Shrek has this honor to be the first non-Disney animated film in history and the first DreamWorks animated movie to be honored being part of the National Film Registry in 2020. But in the term of this alternate version, the AU 1942 film Headin’ South would've been the first DWA film to be honored in NFR in 1990.
    • Don Bluth/MGM’s All Dogs Go to Heaven, its sequel, and The Pebble and the Penguin would’ve been co-produced and wholly owned by DreamWorks Pictures.
      • The franchise would have two differences for its AU version: having two additional characters named Fee and Line, who are shown as cat versions of Jasper and Horace Baddun from Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians, as well as have a hidden society populated by other animals besides dogs.
      • For the AU version of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, it would've taken place in 1940, a year after where the first film took place, rather than present day, and David, a boy from the real-life version of the film would be replaced by Anne-Marie from the first film.
        • However, David would debut in the franchise's AU Valentine special as Anne-Marie's love interest.
      • The All Dogs Go to Heaven franchise and The Pebble and the Penguin would've been released by DreamWorks via its home video label rather than MGM.
    • The 1954 animated film Animal Farm would've been produced under a joint effort between Louis de Rochemont and DreamWorks Pictures co-distributed by Warner Bros.
    • Trolls would be produced in 1994 as a traditionally animated film instead of in 2016 as a CGI one, being one of the fewer 1990s musical animated films who came close in terms of matching the same critical and financial success, like the animated films of the Disney Renaissance.
      • This AU version of Trolls, would be rated G, would have different scenes, would have no crude humor (except in a few scenes), would be the first animated film to have pop culture-themed references and humor, as well as featuring well-known songs (with the pop songs uses in the real-life version of the film being introduced in the AU version).
      • However, it can have a live action/CGI remake in 2016.
        • Humans would appear as well.
      • The character Guy Diamond would be fully clothed and sneeze out glitter for the AU version, compare to the real-life version, who is fully naked and farts out glitter, which would happen only in the live action/CGI remake.
      • The songs "Can't Stop the Feeling!" and "Move Your Feet" first originated in 2016 and 2002 by Justin Timberlake and Junior Senior respectively but imagine if these songs originated in 1994 by former Beatle Paul McCartney as original songs for Trolls.
    • A trio of comic relief characters named Lancy (a cat based on Azrael from The Smurfs), Rascal (a bulldog based on Muttley from Wacky Races) and Battly (a bat based on Bartok from Anastasia) appear in several DreamWorks animated films, as henchmen for the main antagonists.
    • The 2003 film The Cat in the Hat would've be animated rather than a live action.
      • Unlike the real-life live-action one, this version would've been more successful in this AU.
      • Most of the adult gags in the film are tuned down in this version.
      • In this version, Sally would be a main character with Nick instead of Conrad.
      • The video game adaptation would, while remaining the same, being different than what it is in real life. For example, the game would've designed to be cartoony, Conrad would be replaced with Nick, the beginning of the story would have rhyme, narrated by the Cat, and some of the Cat's line would've been different as well.
    • MouseHunt, DreamWorks' live-action film, would've be first made as an animated feature called Mouse in the House in 1961 and then got its live-action remake in 1997.
    • Five animated TV specials, 1964's Return to Oz, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 1969's Frosty the Snowman, 1970's Santa Claus is Coming to Town and 1971's Here Comes Peter Cottontail, all produced by Rankin-Bass, would've be theatrical feature films and co-produced and released by DreamWorks, and even adding more scenes to make them as hour long films. Later, along with other Rankin/Bass pre-1974 works, got fully sold to General Electric in 1974 (three years after the time where Rankin-Bass was under the ownership of General Electric's Tomorrow Entertainment from 1971 to 1974. Though DreamWorks would've continued hold the US distribution rights to the four Rankin-Bass works until 1988), Broadway Video in 1988, Golden Books in 1996, Classic Media in 2001 and in 2012 where DreamWorks acquired the Rankin/Bass pre-1974 works, including re-acquiring the four films, to its DreamWorks Classics library.
      • In Return to Oz, it was originally produced as a 90-minute special before being edited as a 50-minute special. However, as a film in this AU, despite it still remains mystery on what scene they took out, the scene would've included as a 90-mintue film.
      • In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the song "Fame and Fortune" and the ending scene where Rudolph and Santa take the Misfit toys from the Misfit Island, which were shown in its 1965 airing, would be used in this AU version of the film.
      • The song "King of the Cats" from Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (one of the Tom and Jerry films) would've been debuted in Frosty the Snowman and would've later been used for Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale under permission.
      • Frosty the Snowman would've had a Japanese anime series adaptation titled Frosty, produced by Mushi Production, who provided the animation for the 1969 classic, in association with DreamWorks Classics.
      • After pre-1974 Rankin/Bass works were sold to GE, DreamWorks would've continued handled the distribution rights to the Rankin/Bass films in USA, until the late 1980s, before they would get re-acquired by DreamWorks in 2012.
    • Three live-action films, Paulie, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Hotel for Dogs would've been produced as animated films.
    • Bee Movie would've been produced as a live action/animated hybrid film.
    • The plot of another animated films by a different company Barbie as Rapunzel (2002), Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, and The Magic of Pegasus would've been taken as Rapunzel, 12 Princesses, and The Magic of the Pegasus, but adding with a late 1940s film twist and even replace Barbie characters with DreamWorks versions of the characters. Also, imagine if those Barbie movies do not exist at all.
      • Disney would have permission to make their own adaptation of Rapunzel, thus making the Tangled franchise.
    • Another Barbie film Barbie of Swan Lake, which the plot would've be part of a 1970 film version, but with a twist of the 1970s and replacing Barbie characters with DreamWorks versions of the characters. Again, imagine if that Barbie movie does not exist at all.
    • DreamWorks would’ve partnered with Aardman Animation from 1990-2006.
      • Aardman’s 1993-2004 short films would’ve released by DreamWorks in USA.
      • The films and shorts co-produced with Aardman Animations would've been fully owned by Aardman (except Chicken Run and Flushed Away, which are co-owned by both DreamWorks and Aardman)
    • Since our reality's Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron that animals don't talk (even though Spirit does the narration), the AU version of the film would've had animals talk.
      • Spirit: Untamed would be a sequel to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron instead of Spirit: Riding Free and would receive better in the box office.
        • Lucky and the PALs wouldn't be featured in Spirit: Untamed.
    • Harvey Street Kids, an animated series would've been first debuted as a 2015 hand-drawn animated feature film.
    • Tom and Jerry: The Movie would've been distributed by DreamWorks Studios in worldwide, until it later was bought by Tuner Entertainment and Warner Bros. (both divisions of TimeWarner/WarnerMedia), the current owners of the Tom and Jerry franchise.
    • The Smurfs films would've been produced by DreamWorks instead of Sony Pictures, and even the CGI design style of the Smurfs, Azrael, and the Naughties in the live-action film duology would look cartoony and identical to Peyo's artwork, much like Smurfs: The Lost Village.
• They would've also started to make live-action shorts in 1949 and live action films in 1955.
  • The Road to El Dorado would've been a 1955 live-action film (as DreamWorks' first live action film) and then be remade as an animated film in 2000, and the 1955 version would've not been a musical compared to the 2000 version.
    • Not being a musical compared to the 2000 version.
    • Bibo the Armadillo does not appear in the 1950s version.
    • The opening theme of the 1955 film would been different.
    • In the 2000 version, the two main characters, Miguel and Tulio challenge in a ball game, while the 1955 version would've been how they are challenging with tough fighters.
    • In length, the 2000 version is 1 hour long, while the 1950s version would've been 2 hours long, to include more scenes.
    • Chel's outfits for the 1955 film would been different from the 2000 version.
    • The 1955 version would been in CinemaScope.
    • The 2000 film would've been loosely based on the 1955 film.
    • DreamWorks SKG's 1997 logo music would be first heard in one scene from the 1955 film before it became into the studio's logo fanfare in 1997.
  • Deep Impact would've been made in 1958 before it was remade in 1998.
  • The 2003 film Old School would be originated as a 1979 film before getting remade.
  • The 2019 remake of the horror film Black Christmas would been co-produced by DreamWorks, and history-wise for the AU, it would've against Dora Wilson's rule by never produce Christmas-themed horror films before her death.
  • The 1960 film adaptation of The Time Machine would've been made by DreamWorks instead of MGM, just like the 2002 remake.
  • Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and Rings (2017) would've been produced by DreamWorks instead of Paramount.
  • Road Trip: Beer Pong would've been released in theaters instead of being a direct-to-video release.
  • The Transformers film series would've been co-produced by DreamWorks.
  • The 2001 Tom Hanks' film Cast Away would've been originated as a live-action short film produced in 1959 before remade as a full-length movie adaptation.
    • In this AU version, it would be different from the reality's film version such as the main character would been a sailor in the 1959 version, while the 2001 remake counterpart is a FedEx deliver man.
  • The Fright Night film series would've been produced by DreamWorks instead of Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment, just like the 2011 remake.
    • Fright Night 2: New Blood would've also been released in theaters instead of being a direct-to-video release, just like Road Trip: Beer Pong.
• DreamWorks would've had its own space opera franchise named Galaxy Worlds, which would be the same concept as ViacomCBS' Star Trek, Disney/20th Century Studios'/Lucasfilm's Star Wars, NBCUniversal's Battlestar Galactica, BBC's Doctor Who, and 20th Century Studios' Lost in Space.
• In 1994, DreamWorks would've been acquired and took over by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen and then later NBCUniversal in 2016.
  • In real life, DreamWorks Animation is owned by NBCUniversal while DreamWorks Pictures is owned by Amblin Partners (despite Universal jointly own it), but in this AU, DreamWorks and its divisions would be wholly owned by Universal.
    • Speaking of Amblin Partners, in this AU version it would been jointly owned by DreamWorks, especially two companies are running by Steven Spielberg.
    • Amblin Partners would've had the label Storyteller Pictures (STP) in the AU, different from real life how Amblin has DreamWorks Pictures label.

• DreamWorks Animation would've been remained as part of the main DreamWorks studio instead of becoming into a separate company.
• Also in real life, the 1997-2010 library is owned by Paramount Pictures, while the 2011-2016 library is owned by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. In this AU however, the entire live action library would be owned by NBCUniversal.
• DreamWorks' home video distribution label would've founded in 1977.
  • It would've gone through names such as DreamVision (1977-1983), DreamVideo (1984-1986), DreamWorks Home Video (1987-1997), and finally DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1998-present).
  • Though some non-USA video publishers for DreamWorks would've been various home media distributors, both formerly and currently, like Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in Japan and India, Village Roadshow Home Entertainment in Australia, etc.
• DreamWorks Pictures would've had two buildings like its animation department at Glendale, CA and its department with live-action films and TV shows at Universal City, CA.
• DWA's division DreamWorks Classics would've be a division of DreamWorks Studios founded in 1995 which holds the collection of pre-1995 animated and live action movies and TV shows produced by DreamWorks before acquiring Classic Media in 2012.
  • Most of Don Bluth's films would've been bought by and transferred to DreamWorks Studios through its DreamWorks Classics label in 2017, with the exceptions of Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park, Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E due to being owned by The Walt Disney Company via 21st Century Fox.
  • The rights to Peyo's The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit would've been owned by DreamWorks through its DreamWorks Classics banner.
• DreamWorks Interactive would've been founded in 1982 (formerly known as DreamGames until 1990).
• DreamWorks' defunct division Go Fish Pictures, which distributed independent, art, foreign and anime films in USA, would've be remained operating and then would’ve been transferred to DreamWorks Animation.
• DreamWorks Television would've been founded in 1956 and still operating.
  • Planet Sketch would been produced by DreamWorks Animation Television as Sketch Satires, an adult sketch show co-created by Matt Groening and Seth MacFarlane with more segments and it would still be running.
    • Also, the superhero episodes from the YouTube webseries How It Should Have Ended would been also as a segment in Sketch Satires, while it remains also on Internet.
    • Making Fiends, a popular webtoon and TV series would've appearing as part of Sketch Satires.
    • YouTube channels such as AOK, mashed, How It Should Have Ended, Piemations, Flashgitz, CartoonHooligans, Smosh, Alligator Tub, and GoonCartoons would make segments for Sketch Satires.
    • Some segments in the show are just made-up and original.
  • Two 1960s cartoons The Funny Company and Roger Ramjet would've been co-produced by DreamWorks Television.
  • The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! would've be co-produced by DreamWorks Animation Television. It would've been also based on the 2003 film, as well.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes and Camp Lakebottom, two Canadian cartoons would've been co-produced by DreamWorks Animation Television.
    • Jimmy Two-Shoes would've been co-created by Stephen Hillenburg as one of his post-SpongeBob SquarePants works in the AU.
    • Fugget About It would've been produced under the Moonboy Animation banner.
  • A PBS Kids animated series Adventures from the Book of Virtues would've been co-produced and labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television.
  • PBS Kids' Arthur would've been co-produced and labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television.
  • The 1998-1999 series Toonsylvania would have a third season between 2001 and 2002, the year where Fox Kids was replaced by Fox Box/4KidsTV, by adding new characters.
  • The infamous 1997 DiC cartoon The Wacky World of Tex Avery would've been produced by DreamWorks Animation Television, would be titled The Wacky World of Taxi Celery, and made several changes to make it better.
  • The 2017-2019 Mexican animated series Legend Quest, which is based the Leyendas animated film franchise, would be labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television.
  • Eric Weiner, creator of Dora the Explorer, Jojo's Circus and Little Einsteins, would have worked for DreamWorks on interactive animated IPs such as Protectors of Galaxy Worlds (2010-2017), The Supremes (2017-2021) and Krazy Kart Kids (2021-present).
  • DreamWorks would've had a live-action western television show in the 1950s called Outlaw Oscar, which is inspired the legend of Robin Hood, ran from 1954 to 1964.
  • In the AU version of the Monsters vs. Aliens TV show:
    • Insectosaurus would appear in the show.
    • Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, and Hugh Laurie would reprise the roles as Ginormica, B.O.B., Link, and Dr. Cockroach.
    • The episodes would focus on someone else rather than B.O.B.
    • It would have better animation with proper rendering.
    • Ginormica would be a giant, like in the film.
    • The characters would keep their personalities they had in the film.
    • It would last four seasons.

• The Cats and Dogs film series would be produced by DreamWorks as animated films instead of Warner Bros. as live-action ones.
• Don't Look Up, a science fiction comedy film by Netflix, would be made by DreamWorks as a kid-friendly animated film instead of being fully made by Netflix as an adult-oriented live-action one, although still being made as a Netflix-exclusive original.
  • The bombs that attempted to blow up the comet would actually be really strong and would actually work. As a result, the comet would be completely destroyed, and Earth would be saved at the end.
  • There would be sequels to Don't Look Up.
  • The post-credit scenes would be changed to look more appropriate.
• Fun Sh*tposting Wiki for both Miraheze and FANDOM would most likely never exist at all, leaving only the Hitler Gum Girl, Gum Goatse and the Hookuai Gum Girl memes.
  • This would make the Gum Girl hacking controversy never happening.
  • This would also make Atrocious Deviants Wiki remained open.
• A delay in shipping involving Gum Girl would never happen. This would make "Gum Luck" would keep its 2014 release.
  • "Popped Star" (2018) would come out in 2015.
  • "Cover Blown" (2019) would come out in 2016.
  • "Stick Together!" (2021) would come out in 2017.

• DreamWorks would've had its own premium network, FlickWorks Networks, similar to WarnerMedia's HBO and Cinemax, ViacomCBS' Showtime, Lionsgate's Starz, The Walt Disney Company's Freeform, and MGM Holdings' Epix.
• There would've been a DreamWorks Scene It? DVD game released in 2008 and two DreamWorks Trivial Pursuit board games released in 1990 and 2010.
• Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios would've been given permission by DreamWorks to use the concept of the 1970s animated series The Fantastic Family, thus creating The Incredibles which was released in 2004.
• One of Jeffery Katzenberg's own companies, Quibi, would've been a streaming service division before Peacock launched and still be shutting down.
• DreamWorks would've had a joint venture with Discovery Kids (later The Hub in 2010 and Discovery Family in 2014) called "Toon-A-Rific."
• The Upside-Down Show, an Australian live action preschool series that aired in late 2006, would've been co-produced by DreamWorks Television.
  • It would've been produced in 1.78:1 high-definition widescreen.
  • Season 2 would've been produced and aired in late 2007 and later Season 3 in late 2008 along with a 44-minute special.
  • DVDs and Blu-Rays of The Upside-Down Show would've been released in North America.
  • The Upside-Down Show would've had a movie released in 2010.
• Catscratch and T.U.F.F. Puppy, two Nickelodeon animated series, would've been labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television, with the latter being fully owned by DreamWorks.
  • However, Catscratch can have a direct-to-video finale film released in 2012.
• Team Umizoomi, another Nickelodeon animated series, would've been labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television.
  • Just like The Upside-Down Show, it would've been produced in 1.78:1 high-definition widescreen.
  • It would've first aired in January 2009 rather than January 2010, because most of Season 1 was produced in 2008.
  • However, Journey to Numberland, Team Umizoomi vs. the Shape Bandit, and Umi Space Heroes can have their own unique openings.
• The Modifyers would actually be greenlit and would be produced by DreamWorks Animation.
• The Minority Report TV series would've been produced by DreamWorks Television instead of Paramount Television.
• The Smurfs 2021 TV series would've been produced and labeled by DreamWorks Animation Television as a traditionally animated series instead of a CGI series.
  • In that case, Netflix would've picked up the series instead of Nickelodeon.

Information

DreamWorks Studios (also known as DreamWorks, DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, The DreamWorks Company, or DW) is an American film production studio owned by NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast. It was founded in 1934 known as Wilson Cartoon Studio by Dora Elysian Wilson (1902-2000) and her older brother Mike Ollie Wilson (1900-1996), which started as an animation studio, then later expanded into a whole film and television studio after producing feature films, live-action productions and television programs as the studio renamed from Dora Wilson Productions to DW Film Company, with divisions such as DW Film Pictures (later known as DreamWorks Pictures) and DW Cartoon Department (later known as DreamWorks Animation). From 1955 to 2006, DreamWorks distributed its own and third-party films by itself.

On October 12, 1994, during after the production of Wilson's four last films produced (this year's Trolls, 1995's Great Depression and The Prince and the Pauper and 1996's All Dogs Go to Heaven 2), she retired and sold her studio to Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (together, SKG), for their takeover to revive the studio. On May 1, 2000, Dora Wilson passed away at the age of 97. The 2001 animated film Shrek was dedicated to her.

In December 2005, the new owners agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed new deals with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to distribute all DreamWorks' mature-oriented films through Touchstone Pictures until 2016; and with Fox Filmed Entertainment to distribute DreamWorks' family films through 20th Century Fox until 2017. As of August 2016, NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks and its divisions, along owning its pre-1995 live action works and all of its animated films in its library, for about TBD, making it as a division of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.

History

Dora Elysian Wilson era (1934-1994)

Animator and movie producer Dora Elysian Wilson, along with her eldest brother Mike Oliver Wilson, founded her animation studio based in Hollywood in 1934, after moving away from New York City where she founded her first animation studio, New York Comic Studio, Inc. (1930-1933).

In 1947, after the release of The Christmas Tales, Dora Wilson Productions ended its feature film partnership with MGM after making a new distribution deal with Warner Bros., which lead MGM to keep the rights of the films it co-produced with Dora Wilson Productions, except Headin' South since MGM decided to refuse to renew the rights.

Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen (SKG) era (1994-present)

In August 1994, the announcement was made regarding Dora Wilson would sell her studio to entertainment figures Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen and leave her studio for her retirement. On October 12, 1994, TBD.

On January 1, 1997, the transactions of DreamWorks Studios were completed, and the three new owners created a division for the studio's collection of feature films, shorts and television programs that were produced prior to December 1996 which called DreamWorks Classic Entertainment (later known as DreamWorks Classics).

In December 2007, DreamWorks founded Bright Star Pictures, a new label for film and television genres aimed at the Christian audiences.

Paramount ownership (2006-2009)

Distributing partnerships (2009-2017)

Acquired by NBCUniversal (2016-present)

TBD

Shorts and featurettes

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Shorts and Featurettes

Films

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Feature Films

Television

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Television Shows

Video games and computer games

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Video Games

Live shows and Broadways

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Live Shows

Cancelled projects

See: What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Cancelled Projects

Franchises

• Felix The Cat
• Dreamtoons
  • The Dreamtoons Movie
• Casper
• DreamWorks Animation films
  • Headin' South
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • Trolls
  • Kung-Fu Panda
  • Shrek
  • Puss in Boots
  • Lancy, Rascal and Battly
  • DreamWorks' Splatoon

DreamWorks Network Media

DreamWorks Network Media is a television network company, owned by NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUniversal/Comcast) that operated its television channels only in Europe, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, founded on January 1, 1990.

DreamWorks Character Brands

DreamWorks Character Brands, Ltd. Inc. (DWCB) is a company of the character-related marketing brands that established in 2015, owned by Universal Licensing & Partnership.

• DreamWorks Girls - featuring female child characters from various DreamWorks films, comics and shows.
• DreamWorks Boys - featuring male child characters from various DreamWorks films, comics and shows.
• DreamWorks Animals - featuring animal characters from various DreamWorks films.
• DreamWorks Superheroes - featuring superhero characters from various DreamWorks TV series.
• DreamWorks Fantasies - featuring characters from DreamWorks fantasy films.

Other media

• DreamWorks Movie Adventure Park - a theme park dedicated to the works of DreamWorks Studios. Opened in 1992. Located at Vancouver, Canada.
• Dreamtoons World - a Dreamtoons-themed theme park area in Universal Studios Florida.
• DreamWorks Place - a DreamWorks animated films-themed theme park area in Universal Studios Florida.
• World of DreamWorks - a theme park in Hudson, Texas which holds lands based on DreamWorks animated films, and one based on live-action films.
• DreamWorks Podcast - an official podcast related to the works of DreamWorks Studios.
• DreamWorks Hotel - TBD
• Joey's Family Center and Pizzeria - a former chain of restaurant and entertainment center, which a competitor of Chuck E. Cheese's, but themed to Dreamtoons characters which ran from 1980 to 2007, although some still existing in DreamWorks Movie Adventure Park and Worlds of DreamWorks.
• Shrek: Home for the Holidays (2001) - a seasonal soundtrack which features Shrek and Donkey are celebrate their quiet time during Christmas time while they got visited by fairy tale characters singing Christmas carols on the front door. It was only available on the Shrek VHS.
• Little Dreamtoons - a media franchise featuring baby/younger versions of Dreamtoons characters market at young children ages 0-6.
• Dreamtoons Comics - a comic book series based on Dreamtoons characters. Between 1955 and 1975, most Dreamtoons characters were getting their own titles.
• DreamWorks Comics - a comic imprint which a joint venture between DreamWorks and Dark Horse Comics which ran from 1990-1999.
• DreamWorks Magazine - (formerly DreaMagazine until 1992) a media magazine which shows DreamWorks-related productions.
• GameWorks - a video game center chain jointly owned by Sega and DreamWorks founded in 1997 until being sold in 2001.
• DreamWorks Holiday Hits (2017) - TBD
• DreamWorks' Storybook Collection (2018) - published by Golden Books, it's a book showcases the stories of DreamWorks family films, alongside with Classic Media library.
• Dreamtoons: Dark World (2019-present) - TBD. Published by Dark Horse Comics.

Distributors

Film

• Monogram Pictures (1934-1937)
• Republic Pictures (1937-1954; short films)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942-1947; feature films and featurettes)
• Warner Bros. (1948-1954; feature films and featurettes)
• DreamWorks Pictures (1955-2006; though currently continuing producing its films under its name)
• Paramount Pictures (2006-2013)
• 20th Century Fox (2013-2017; family films)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2009-2017; mature-oriented films)
• Universal Pictures (2017-present)

Television

• Netflix (2013-present)
• Amazon Video (2018-present)

Home entertainment

USA

• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1977-present)
  • Magnetic Video (1977-1981)
  • Family Home Entertainment (1982-1983)
  • Worldvision Home Video (1984-1989)
  • MGM Home Entertainment (1990-1997)
  • Paramount Home Entertainment (2006-2017 for both DreamWorks’ pre-2012 animated films, and pre-2009 live-action films)
  • 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2012-2017 for DreamWorks' family films)
  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2009-2017 for DreamWorks’ mature films)
  • Universal Studios Home Entertainment (1997-2005, 2017-present)

Non-USA

United Kingdom

• CIC Video (1984-1998)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1998-present)

Australia

• Village Roadshow Home Entertainment (1990-2006)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2006-2017 for both DreamWorks’ pre-2012 animated films, and pre-2009 live-action films)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2012-2017 for DreamWorks' family films)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2009-2017 for DreamWorks’ adult-oriented films)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (1997-2005, 2017-present)

Singapore

• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (1989-2006, 2017 -present)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2006-2017 for both DreamWorks’ pre-2012 animated films, and pre-2009 live-action films)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2012-2017 for DreamWorks' family films)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2009-2017 for DreamWorks’ adult-oriented films)

Malaysia

• Paramount Home Entertainment (2008-2012)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2012-2017 for DreamWorks' family films)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2012-2017 for DreamWorks’ adult-oriented films)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (1997-2005, 2017-present)

Spain

• CIC Video (1984-1998)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1998-present)

UAE

• Warner Home Video (1988-1998)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (1998-present)

Ireland

• CIC Video (1984-1993)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video/Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (1993-2005)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (2005-present)

India

Logo history

1958-1960

1961-1963

1964-1967

1968-1973

1974-1985

1986-1996

1997-present

2004-2009

2010-2017

2018-present

Assets

Current

Film and home entertainment

• DreamWorks Pictures
  • DreamWorks Animation
    • Go Fish Animation (formerly known as Go Fish Pictures, as a former division of DreamWorks Pictures)
    • Moonboy Animation
  • Bright Star Pictures
  • DreamWorks Home Entertainment

Television

• DreamWorks Television
  • DreamWorks Animation Television
    • MoonBoy Animation

Other

• DreamWorks Classics
  • Classic Media
    • Felix the Cat Productions
    • Fantasmical World Pictures
    • Rankin/Bass
    • Jay Ward
    • Studio Peyo
    • UPA

Former

• DreamWorks Consumers & Licensing (folded into Universal Partnerships & Licensing)
• DreamWorks Interactive
• DreamWorks Publishing Worldwide
• DreamWorks Run
• DreamWorks Records
• Pacific Data Images
  • PDI/DreamWorks
• TBD

Library

Current

• DreamWorks Studios films and television library
  • DreamWorks Animation library
    • DreamWorks animated shorts and featurettes
      • Dreamtoons
    • DreamWorks animated feature films
  • DreamWorks live-action shots and films
  • DreamWorks Television
    • DreamWorks Animation Television
• DreamWorks Classics library
  • DreamWorks pre-December 1996 film and television productions
    • pre-1996 DreamWorks Animation short and film works
      • pre-1996 Dreamtoons cartoons
    • pre-1996 DreamWorks live-action shorts and films
      • 1949-1977 DreamWorks live action shorts
    • pre-1996 DreamWorks Television library
      • pre-1996 DreamWorks animated TV programs
      • pre-1996 DreamWorks live-action TV programs
  • Classic Media library
  • Most Don Bluth works
• ???

Former

See also

• List of film adaptations by DreamWorks Studios
• Internet phenomenon
• List of DreamWorks Studios' film and television acquisitions
• Made-up DreamWorks productions - an example sub-page just in case to avoid everybody confusion.
• Dora Wilson's Animated Classics - a VHS/DVD collection of DreamWorks' classic animated feature films that ran from 2001-2004.
• Dora Wilson Signature Collection - a DVD and Blu-ray collection of DreamWorks films.
• List of DreamWorks video titles
• List of DreamWorks characters - The sub-page hold the list of characters from productions by DreamWorks.
  • List of DreamWorks supporting characters - the sub-page of supporting characters that appeared in various DreamWorks films.
• DreamWorks Shorts - a collectible name of DreamWorks' animated short films.
• Comparison list
• List of merchandising based on DreamWorks properties
• List of remakes of DreamWorks Pictures films
• Stephen Hillenburg Cinematic Universe

Here are the links from Wikipedia to give you real information and details about both DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation.

• DreamWorks Pictures
  • List of DreamWorks Pictures films
• DreamWorks Animation
  • List of DreamWorks Animation productions
  • List of DreamWorks Animation programs