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7/16/2025, 4:13:58 PM
Shrek was made by the division behind Antz
7/14/2025, 3:06:15 PM
>It's crunch time at DreamWorks, because of an ugly green ogre named "Shrek" who stomps into theaters on Friday aiming for nothing less than box office domination. The DreamWorks film studio has been one of Hollywood's top live-action moviemakers of recent years with hits "Gladiator," "American Beauty" and "Saving Private Ryan," but the company's animation division craves a blockbuster of their own. And it may be computer generated "Shrek," a fairy tale that spoofs fairy tales and features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, that gives DreamWorks the one glory it has lacked since first being, well, dreamed up, in 1994. "People have their seatbelts fastened. They are gripping the chair, white-knuckled, praying that maybe this is the one that's going to do it," DreamWorks principal partner Jeffrey Katzenberg told Reuters in a recent interview. It's not that the studio founded by Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and music mogul David Geffen hasn't had animated hits because they have: 1998's "The Prince of Egypt", 1998's "Antz" and 2000's "Chicken Run." Each raked in roughly $100 million in domestic ticket sales. Last year's "The Road to El Dorado" was DreamWorks' only animated flop and in the close knit world of animation, outside the Walt Disney Co., three out of four is pretty darn good. Katzenberg doesn't hope for a normal hit, though. He wants a good old-fashioned mega-movie -- a real blockbuster -- maybe like 1994's "The Lion King" which after its $770 million global box office made hundreds of millions more in toy, music and video sales, on TV, on Broadway and a touring stage show.
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