Deals
DreamWorks Animation Agrees to Buy Owner of Casper Shows
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DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the movie studio run by Jeffrey Katzenberg, agreed to acquire Classic Media for $155 million, adding a library of vintage film and television characters including Casper and Lassie.
Classic’s co-chief executives, Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman, will run the new DreamWorks Classics unit, according to an e-mail yesterday from Shannon Olivas, a spokeswoman for Glendale, California-based DreamWorks Animation. Classic Media is owned by an affiliate of private equity firm GTCR LLC.