And Shrek 2 utterly obliterated Disney’s summer cartoon flop Atlantis: The Lost Empire on its way to beating Pixar’s groundbreaking superhero family adventure The Incredibles. In 1998, for instance, Pixar followed up Toy Story, a film in which Katzenberg was involved, with A Bug’s Life. Katzenberg’s success with the Shrek movies may have been part of the reason that his old boss Michael Eisner was pushed out at Disney. 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Inc behind by raking in a huge $974,755,371 worldwide. Although it has been in theaters for a full three months now, the animated DreamWorks sequel THE CROODS: A NEW AGE somehow returned to the top of box office … [141], A shot-for-shot fan remake titled Shrek Retold was released through 3GI Industries on November 29, 2018. (The Lord Of The Rings and Spider-Man both get moments of affectionate parody during the opening, a Shrek-in-love montage set to a Counting Crows song that would get an Oscar nomination.) 4 earner at the 2001 box office. As a young executive, Katzenberg had taken the lion’s share of the credit for the sudden creative and commercial rebirth of Disney animation in the early ’90s. Katzenberg had pushed the studio’s feature-length cartoons back toward the formulas that had once worked so well: the bright visuals, the songs, the wacky anthropomorphic sidekicks, the princesses. It’s less than half the length of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, the biggest hit of the previous year. This massively successful children’s film franchise owes its entire existence to corporate resentment and hubris. Box office. But after Shrek 2, DreamWorks Animation never beat Disney at the box office again. Besides Shrek 2 and The Incredibles, audiences flocked to Robert Zemeckis’ misbegotten motion-capture experiment The Polar Express and to DreamWorks’ Finding Nemo bite Shark Tale. Reluctantly designated as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away, Shrek hatches a plan to install the rebellious Artie as the new king while Princess Fiona tries to fend off a coup d'état by the jilted Prince Charming. S h [132] It also inspired a number of computer animated films which also spoofed fairy tales, or other related story genres, often including adult-oriented humor, most of which were not nearly as successful as Shrek, such as Happily N'Ever After, Igor, and Hoodwinked! Next time: George Lucas wraps up his dumbfounding prequel trilogy with Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. [136] The Broadway production was recorded and released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital media. Shrek also had huge movie stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, all of whom had headlined big comedy hits in the years before Shrek. DreamWorks cranked out two more Shrek sequels and a Puss In Boots spinoff in short order, and all of them made money. Along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, Katzenberg founded DreamWorks, and he did everything in his power to turn his new studio’s animation division into something that could bury his ex-employer, directly undermining Disney at every step along the way. Also, Puss In Boots is a swashbuckling swordsman who wins fights by being cute! [125][126] Shrek was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the "100 Greatest Family Films", losing out on the top spot to E.T. (Watching Shrek 2 with my kids, the Puss In Boots scenes got the biggest reactions by far. Katzenberg tried, but his “fuck you” wasn’t enough. For years, it reigned as the highest-grossing animated film in history. The climax is similarly noisy. "Shrek 2" is still one of the top-grossing animated films. [132] Particularly after Shrek 2, animated films began to incorporate more pop culture references and end-film musical numbers. DreamWork Pictures According to IMDPro's Box Office Mojo, when "Shrek 2" was released in 2004, it was the highest-grossing movie worldwide, beating out "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Spider-Man 2." [142][143], Three sequels were released over the years – the Oscar-nominated Shrek 2 in 2004, Shrek the Third in 2007, and Shrek Forever After in 2010. For the franchise, see, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), National Film Registry Spotlights Diverse Filmmakers in New Selections|Library of Congress, "We Asked ... Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, "Shrek Forever After, "Shrek 5 Is Happening: Is It A Sequel Or Reboot & When Will It Release? Pixar bosses Steve Jobs and John Lasseter seethed at Katzenberg for years, accusing him of stealing the whole idea for A Bug’s Life and taking it elsewhere. Donkey: Hey, come back there. DreamWorks cranked out two more Shrek sequels and a Puss In Boots spinoff in short order, and all of them made money. It received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations including Best New Musical. Pixar’s groundbreaking superhero family adventure. Shrek/Blind Mouse: no this is one of does drop it and leave it alone things Shrek/Blind Mouse: This is the part where you run away! Directed by Chris Miller, Raman Hui. In the year-end box office top 10 of 2004, the only R-rated film is an unrepeatable fluke: Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ, which had the good fortune to become a culture war weapon and which rode church-group field trips and water-cooler chatter to earn an astonishing $370 million domestic, finished just behind Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2. [136] It starred Brian d'Arcy James in the title role, Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad, Daniel Breaker as Donkey, and John Tartaglia as Pinocchio. Every major Hollywood studio was in a rush to find properties with franchise potential that wouldn’t exclude paying audiences, and they’ve kept up that practice to this day. [140] The musical received many Tony Award nominations and won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Costume Design. [149] A fifth feature film was originally planned during the development of Shrek Forever After, but the idea was later abandoned by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Other big hits from that year—Spider-Man 2, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, The Day After Tomorrow—had entire sequences that were mostly computer-animated. As Pixar worked on Monsters Inc., its own movie about a sympathetic big lug of a creature, DreamWorks adapted a William Steig storybook about an ogre with a heart of gold. With the help of his faithful steed Donkey, Shrek takes on a potion-brewing Fairy Godmother, the pompous Prince Charming, and the famed ogre-killer, Puss In Boots, a ferocious feline foe who's really just a pussycat at heart! [132] However, Shrek itself has noticeably influenced the current generation of mainstream animated films. America’s ticket-buying public was apparently awfully impressed with computer animation in 2004. He went off to start Quibi, which became one of the great schadenfreude stories of 2020. But after Shrek 2, DreamWorks Animation never beat Disney at the box office again. Database of box office statistics on motion pictures released from 1989 to the present, plus weekend preview and review. the Extra-Terrestrial. But when Disney head Michael Eisner fired Katzenberg in 1994, Katzenberg vowed revenge. That’s probably why it was successful. [136] A London production opened in the West End on June 7, 2011. Shrek had fart jokes and sex jokes and pop songs and pop culture references, most of which were in short supply in Disney movies at the time. The film is available on YouTube for free. [132] Such elements can be seen in films like Robots, Chicken Little and Doogal. The film’s big themes—about rejecting dominant narratives, embracing who you are, the shallowness of beauty—are the same big themes from the first Shrek. Donkey sings a song over the end credits, just as he did in the first Shrek. Once DreamWorks got going, the studio began a practice of cranking out movies that were thematically close to whatever Disney and their partners at Pixar were doing at the time—something that was pretty easy, since Katzenberg had been in the pipeline for those movies’ development. A short 4-D film, Shrek 4-D, which originally was a theme park ride, was released in 2003. He’d also enlisted the voices of show business legends Julie Andrews and John Cleese. Nothing besides The Passion Of The Christ took itself seriously. [127] In 2005, Shrek came sixth in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons poll behind The Simpsons, Tom and Jerry, South Park, Toy Story and Family Guy. 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[134], In 2003, Dark Horse Comics released a three-issue mini-series comic book adaptation of Shrek which was written by Mark Evanier, and the issues were later compiled into a trade paperback. Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into another hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek and Fiona. The Croods return to the top! Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie; Caroline, or Change) and a sidesplitting book by David Lindsay-Abaire.Shrek brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there's more to the story than meets the ears. During their time in the spotlight, the Harry Potter movies were a box office juggernaut. Although box-office records are often contradictory, spotty, unreliable and sometimes non-existent (the further you go back in cinematic history), it has been possible to compile listings of the top domestic hits all the way back to 1913 - both by decade (beginning with the silents and the 1920s) and by individual year, up to the present year. Shrek is a media franchise by DreamWorks Animation, loosely based on William Steig's 1990 picture book of the same name.It includes four computer-animated films: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010), with a fifth film currently in the works. At this point, Disney isn’t even really in competition with the other film studios anymore. The Popcorn Champs looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. Disney still won. Shrek opened on around 6,000 screens across 3,587 theaters; eleven of them showed the film digitally, made possible by the THX Division of Lucasfilm. Shrek was a “fuck you.” That was the entire point. [131], Shrek premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or,[7] making it the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to be chosen to do so. But then Shrek becomes a handsome human! Iger also pushed Pixar’s storytelling braintrust into the rest of Disney animation, which led to a whole new renaissance with Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen and everything afterwards. Shrek (2001) might be Katzenberg’s spiteful masterpiece. That idea worked.). In his tenure, Iger was responsible for Disney paying billions for Lucasfilm and Marvel. A month and a half before A Bug’s Life came out, though, DreamWorks released Antz, another movie about the adventures of a rebellious worker ant in love with a princess. Directors Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon dialed up the grossness and the nudge-nudge humor. It made just a bit less money than Monsters, Inc., but DreamWorks still pulled the dick move of releasing Shrek on video on the same day that Monsters, Inc. premiered in theaters. Disney has won. The movie’s monstrous hero and his donkey sidekick are ugly, nasty boors with nothing but contempt for the architecture of the story in which they find themselves. Disney catches some stray shots in Shrek 2—Ariel getting thrown to sharks, Tinkerbell passing out from fart gas—but Katzenberg’s white-hot hatred no longer feels like the guiding principle. Most of America’s 10-year-olds were presumably not poring over the pages of Variety, gasping at the back-room machinations that led to Jeffrey Katzenberg being so mad at his former bosses. One of Iger’s first acts was to buy Pixar outright, rather than just partnering with the company. Four years later, Shrek 2 was Jeffrey Katzenberg’s touchdown dance. International grosses, monthly averages, all-time blockbusters. Instead, the film mostly works as a long procession of jokes and ideas: Prince Charming is really a vain asshole! Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. Every other big movie in 2004 was a zippy, jokey adventure of some form or another.
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