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The maker of popular Facebook games including FarmVille and Mafia Wars says this morning in an SEC filing that it hopes to end up with nearly $890M from a public offering of 100M shares at an expected price of about $9.25 a share. The stock will trade at NASDAQ under the symbol ZNGA. The cash will be used for “general…

UPDATE, 2:25 PM: DreamWorks Animation shares jumped all over the place in after-hours trading when the company reported its earnings — but settled at -2% as CEO Jeff Katzenberg discussed his expectations and plans. He talked up Puss In Boots, predicting that it will set a record this weekend by generating more than…

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is the leading cheerleader for 3D — and lobbied theaters hard to raise ticket prices for 3D films. So it’s funny to hear him say that “the bloom is off the rose” for the technology for a while “driven by a singular and unique characteristic that only exists in Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: Media Moguls With Out-Of-Whack Pay Compensation My previous post showed that a lot of media company bigwigs have pay that’s out of whack with the other 4 top executives whom the SEC requires these corps to list. Now I want to show the flip side — CEOs that don’t set off alarm bells with corporate governance…