Shark Tale the world, measuring more than six stories tall and over . It required of air to inflate and more than 50 tons of water for stabilization. The premiere was attended by 6,000 visitors, including Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, and Michael Imperioli. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the executive producer of the film, explained that they "wanted to find a unique way to introduce this movie to the world. We needed a big idea. … More than anything, we are in showbusiness. This is the show part." "Shark Tale" opened at #1 with $47.6 million, which was, at the time, the
Modern animation in the United States "Shark Tale", "Madagascar", "Bee Movie", "Kung Fu Panda", "Monsters vs. Aliens", "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Croods". DreamWorks Animation eventually became a separate company from its parent; it is now owned by Universal Studios through its parent company NBCUniversal/Comcast as of 2016. In 2003, noting the growing success of studios that relied on computer animation, executive Bob Lambert announced Walt Disney Feature Animation would be converted into a CGI studio. Two years later, "Chicken Little", the first computer-animated film from the studio, was released to moderate success in the box office and mixed critical reception. On January 24,