DreamWorks Animation is owned by Comcast (the United States, NASDAQ: CMCSA), which acquired the brand on 22 August 2016 for $3.8 billion.[1][2] DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1994 in the United States and was independent until 2016.
Evidence: Comcast Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-03, SEC EDGAR, 3 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
DreamWorks Animation made Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, founded as part of the studio Steven Spielberg and two partners started in 1994. Comcast acquired it in 2016 for about $3.8 billion. It had been spun out as a separate public company in 2004 and struggled with the cost of releasing only one or two films a year, which is what made the sale attractive.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
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Comcast controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in media & entertainment.
The 13 brands in animation studios on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is TOHO, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Science SARU | TOHO | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Doga Kobo | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| House of Cool | WildBrain | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Studio Bazooka | CJ ENM | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| NITRO PLUS | CyberAgent | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Pixar | Disney | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Tatsunoko Production | Nippon TV Holdings | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Toei Animation | Toei | 🇯🇵 Japan |
Comcast is a publicly listed company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1963. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CMCSA.
Comcast began in 1963 with a small cable system in Mississippi and grew into the largest cable operator in the United States. Its 2011 purchase of NBCUniversal made a distribution company into a studio owner, and Sky added most of European pay television in 2018.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; DreamWorks Animation is not one of them.
Comcast acquired DreamWorks Animation for about $3.8 billion, adding Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon to Universal. The studio had struggled as a standalone public company because a single failed film could ruin a year.
The parent company of DreamWorks Animation is Comcast, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. DreamWorks Animation originated in the United States in 1994 and its owner, Comcast, is also headquartered in the United States.
Comcast completed its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation on 22 August 2016, after announcing the deal on 28 April 2016. The deal was valued at $3.8 billion (enterprise value).
DreamWorks Animation was an independent company from its founding in 1994 until Comcast acquired it in 2016.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, DreamWorks Animation is still owned by Comcast. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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