The Working Dream

Spent a long afternoon Friday at DreamWorks, where all is merry, all is bright*. As a story person related to me:.

"We had a fine meeting with Jeffrey. Panda just passed $600 million in worldwide grosses, and he was in a good mood ..."

I guess being a rich person who's not working on The Simpsons crew has its rewards.

Production work is ramping up on the next Shrek, and I'm informed that most of the work on this installment is happening in Glendale (Shrek III) was mostly produced in Palo Alto.) And I got to see a short action sequence in 3-Dfor Monsters and Aliens which looked damned impressive. (Story work on the flick is ongoing. The employee who showed me the clip said "It's coming together ..." Don't they always?)

* Kindly note that this is hyperbole. Every studio always has the 1) Happy, 2) Unhappy, 3) Undecided groups or employees.