The Dream Team is a thoughtful book on the rise and fall of DreamWorks SKG. The author points out the main reasons why the company started by heavyweights, Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen with so much hype and promise failed to meet the promise. The author attributes DreamWorks failure outside of animation due to initially trying to do it all - film, tv, interactive games, distribution, and music. The large studios (Disney, Time Warner, etc) do all of this with success but as a startup it was impossible. The inability to do all of it of course made DW dependent on film which is difficult as every year you have a few winners and many losers. The larger reason may have been that two of the three founders (S and G) had very little to prove. Spielberg was first and foremost a movie maker and not a movie mogul. He made as many movies for other studios as he did for DW. Geffen having become a billionaire after two successful ventures in the music business had no interest in the day to day operations of DW. Katzenberg was different and hence Dream Works Animation SKG is still a successful independent company. The author also does an admirable job pointing out that none of the main players involved actually failed. In terms of both financially due to the sale to Paramount and the spin off of the Animation unit and from a film perspective some movies that will go down in history as exceptional.
The book was informative and easy to read at 206 pages. Mr. Kimmel is not a business journalist so I was left wanting more details of the business side. Also the narrative style as not as interesting as a similar book - "Disney War" which chronicles the downs, ups and then downs of the Walt Disney Company. However it fulfilled it's thesis of explaining why Dream Works failed.
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