DreamWorks also has a distribution agreement with Universal. Viacom has been rebuilding its troubled Paramount division after several years of poor results.

The sale to Paramount, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2006, would terminate DreamWorks’ distribution contracts with NBC Universal, which currently releases its movies outside ...

Paramount put its offer together just last week, after DreamWorks had been discussing terms with NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co., for nine months. NBC Universal made an offer in ...

Fox, Sony, Universal and Disney have in-house ... It dates to the contentious rupture between the live-action DreamWorks unit and Paramount in 2008. Even though DWA already had been spun off ...

But Universal's parent ... MONTAGNE: NPR's Kim Masters, speaking to us about Paramount acquiring DreamWorks.

Paramount and DreamWorks have hammered out a joint arrangement ... need to strike a distribution-only pact, likely with Universal, to release the new company’s slate, minus the 15 projects ...

Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit is in talks to buy DreamWorks SKG for more than $1 billion, topping an offer by NBC Universal, people briefed on the talks said. DreamWorks yesterday ended ...

Paramount’s parent, Viacom Inc., acquired DreamWorks for $1.6 billion in ... the leading candidate continues to be Universal Pictures. David Geffen, one of the original founders of DreamWorks ...

LOS ANGELES – Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio has signed on with Universal Pictures to distribute its films as his company parts ways with Paramount. Under the seven-year deal, Universal ...

Paramount and DreamWorks have hammered out a joint arrangement ... need to strike a distribution-only pact, likely with Universal, to release the new company’s slate, minus the 15 projects ...