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D'Works 3-D 'Monsters' moves to avoid 'Avatar'


September 20, 2007 Backing off from a showdown in the 3-D corral, DreamWorks Animation is moving Paramount's 2009 release date for the 3-D animated feature Monsters vs. DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg unveiled the move Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York, where he also took issue with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman's very public dis of Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, who co-founded DreamWorks with Katzenberg. DreamWorks spun off DWA in a public offering in 2004, and Viacom's Paramount unit acquired the live-action-oriented DreamWorks in late 2005, with Spielberg and Geffen signing contracts with Paramount that run through the end of 2008.

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