USC Dedicates Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Center For Animation

COMMENTS (23)

• Fight on! Thank you for your contributions.

  Comment by Thomas Trojan — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 6:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• another front on the long talent war between Dreamworks Animation and Disney…

  Comment by fred ru — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 6:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • There is a real good chance some of this money came from Disney’s settlement with Katzenberg. You must remember the wonderful Eisner/Katzenberg court follies.

    And with Pixar and Lasseter in the Disney house…the battle for talent is one sided.

    Comment by tom — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 7:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • the “long talent war between Dreamworks Animation and Disney” is long over and Dreamworks won

    Comment by exdiz — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 5:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Jeffrey Katzenberg, when he left Disney for Dreamworks stole John Lassiter’s idea for A BUGS LIFE and turned it into ANTZ.
  A real supporter of animation Mr. Katzenberg. A true class act in real Hollywood style.

  Comment by Mickey — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 6:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No David Geffen? I’m surprised that part of the DreamWorks trifecta won’t be there.

  Comment by BasicSand — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 6:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Did he go to USC? Ever? Or is he just buying a building for himself?

  Comment by oops — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 7:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Another win for UCLA!

  Comment by Backwards Bruin — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 7:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• EXTREMELY WELL DESERVED

  Comment by Joe Blaze — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 7:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s nice to see destitute USC finally get some financial love from Hollywood…

  Comment by Schwartzy and Pagana — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 9:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, the Antz script was already in production before Pixar started working on A Bug’s Life.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 9:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Katzenberg knew all about the idea for A BUGS LIFE and rushed ANTZ into production when he left Lassiters side. It’s to this day why Pixar is so secretive with their work. They were stunned, blindsided by Katzenbergs ruthlessness.

    Comment by Carrie — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 1:32am PDT  Reply to this post

  • That’s not true. Katzenberg ripped off A BUGS LIFE in the form of ANTZ and rushed it into production.
    He’s a douche. His money is tainted.
    He can give it all away but he’s still a bad guy.

    Comment by Dina — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 12:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• There are people of accomplishment, like Katzenberg, and then there are those who can only complain because they haven’t accomplished anything………… and they like to post here.

  Congratulations, Jeffrey.

  Comment by disgruntled viewer — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 9:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Dear “Oops”,

  I remember Jeffrey supported USC film school years ago, as host of First Look. He’s no fair-weather supporter.

  Comment by Larry Guterman — Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 10:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The man who wanted to fire Edddie Murphy from 48. Hrs. because he “wasn’t funny”, the man who fired John Lasseter from Disney, the man who wanted to cut “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid, the man who said there was no future in CGI animation. Bravo! Enjoy the building you bought, you incredible phony.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 5:12am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Lasseter was let go from Disney during the Ron Miller era – long before Eisner/Katzenberg arrived (source – Wikipedia).
    Jeffrey has been a passionate student of animation since arriving at Disney in the mid-eighties and will go down in history as one of the greats of animation.

    Comment by exdiz — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 7:41am PDT  Reply to this post

    • I cannot believe you had the nerve to correct a post based upon something you read in Wikipedia! Did you work at Enron?

      Comment by Michael — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “, the man who fired John Lasseter from Disney”

  Huh? When did he do this, again? I don’t THINK so…Lasseter was gone from Disney before Kaztemburg arrived. And Kaztemburg QUIT Disney.

  John Lasseter is still with Disney.

  Comment by Scott — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 7:45am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Disney DID let John Lasseter go, and he went to work with Ed Catmull and Lucas designing hardware/software which could do cg animation. Eventually, both left Lucas and Pixar was later sold to Steve Jobs.

    It is not only true that Disney fired John…they did it in a most ungraceful way.

    And, of course, John is now the creative leader for both Pixar and Disney animation.

    Comment by tom — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 8:16am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Scott-his name is KatzeNberg. KatzeNberg.
    Are you the same guy who always misspells this on the animation Guild blog?
    And to the other guy, “anonymous”: an “incredible phony” doesn’t build and sustain the only major independent animation studio in the world for lo these many years. The proof is in the theaters and on DVD shelves.

    Comment by beenthere — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 10:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m still waiting for the new Dreamworks Animation flick, “Automobiles”.

  Comment by LuigiDaMan — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 9:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• What the heck? He already has the Katzenberg center at BU! Go Terriers.

  Comment by James — Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 10:31am PDT  Reply to this post