With DreamWorks' The Wild Robot and Paramount's Transformers Ones both bringing robot movies, and both releasing next to each other, it seems we have the next contender for the Barbenheimer treatment.

Paramount Joins Bidding for DreamWorks. By Alex Armitage. December 9, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit is in talks to buy DreamWorks SKG for more than $1 billion, ...

The separation agreement involved 200 DreamWorks-developed projects with DreamWorks taking the lead on 15 to 20, according to trade reports. Paramount will take the lead on about 15 to 20 projects ...

Vollman, a DreamWorks alum, continues to report directly to Par worldwide marketing prexy Gerry Rich. In his expanded role, Vollman will run all national publicity campaigns for Paramount films ...