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You'll get your first look at a teaser trailer for next summer's SHREK 2. Attached to prints of ELF, hitting theaters on November 7th, will be the SHREK teaser. What is still unknown is how long the teaser is and exactly why type of footage is revealed. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy all returned for the animated sequel, bringing along Antonio Banderas (Puss 'N Boots) and John Cleese and Julie Andrews as Princess Fiona's parents. Expect the teaser to pop up online shortly after its debut in theaters.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/shrek_2/
Shrek is one of the most overrated films I've ever seen.
My only problem with Shrek was that whenever there was an 'adult' joke, the whole film seemed to wink at you. Thats something that Pixar don't do. "Plenty of laughs for the kids, and a few slipped in to keep the parents interested". I hate that kind of thing.
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I loved Shrek... but with the plot of this new one I dont know if it will really work or it will be one of those sequels that they try just to make money off the first one and have no real though and work on it
like most "disney-esque" sequels, they seem to be going to the city again......
Quote from: ewardlike most "disney-esque" sequels, they seem to be going ......
straight to video or dvd..i canot believe how many times i see a tv spot for a sequel for their films that never hit theatres...(little mermaid 2).... :roll:
i just saw the trailer at the theatre watching ELF... looks like its well done and with some funny parts... but I dont know how successful can it be...
I saw the trailer before Elf and I thought it sucked. But the thing is.. trailers really have sucked as of late. So who knows what to expect.
Quote from: NEON MERCURYstraight to video or dvd..i canot believe how many times i see a tv spot for a sequel for their films that never hit theatres...(little mermaid 2).... :roll:
Disney is having great success with straight-to-home videos. The latest Lilo & Stitch sequal did extremely well. Expect more companies to follow.
On the same note, the home video market is exploding right now. Whatever your opinion may be of this trend, it's coming whether we like it or not.
Those who are looking for work in the film industry can certainly find it in home video.
I loved Shrek when it first opened, but it was rendered obsolete later that year by Monsters Inc. The comment above about all the winks to the adults is really what diminishes the film on repeat viewings. Pixar films appeal to everyone on the same great level.
Full Trailer:
Hi-Res (http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/shrek2/shrek2_trlr_qt_480.mov)
Med-Res (http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/shrek2/shrek2_trlr_qt_352.mov)
Lo-Res (http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/shrek2/shrek2_trlr_qt_240.mov)
Whats the deal with this shrek 3-d thing dvd thats coming out in april?
Quote from: StefenWhats the deal with this shrek 3-d thing dvd thats coming out in april?
It's just another Bullshit ploy to make Money
Final Trailer here. (http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/shrek2/shrek2_trlr2_qt_480.mov)
just saw it. cute. basically the same as the first, to be honest. some good laughs along the way, one brilliantly funny joke involving SPOILERS
catnip
Quote from: themodernage02 two months agowatch the first 9 minute sof the movie there. hey, whats with this new trend? like, dawn of the dead is showing the first 10 minutes on usa or someplace soon and now that thing is showing theirs online. is this good or bad?
Watch the First Five Minutes of Shrek 2! Source: DreamWorks Pictures Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Eager to see what all the buzz is about? We gave Shrek 2 a rating of 9 out of 10, and now you can see the first five minutes of the film online. We've got the clip here in QuickTime, Windows Media and Real player format. http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/s/shrek2.php
I liked it. It was cute and creative. I thought the first one was funnier, but this had some funny stuff too.
Banderas and Timberlake Share Emotional Moment
Antonio Banderas was so moved while watching his eagerly-anticipated new movie Shrek 2 with Justin Timberlake, he ended up sobbing and holding hands with the pop hunk. The Spanish actor viewed the animated film at France's Cannes Film Festival last week as he sat in between Timberlake and the 'N Sync star's girlfriend Cameron Diaz, who also adds her vocals to the production. Banderas says, "I was kind of crying at the end of the thing. It was kinda funny because there's is a very romantic moment at the end of the movie. My character says, 'I wanna cry,' and I was crying. Cameron Diaz was (to the left) and Justin Timberlake was (to the right), and he said to me, 'I'm crying too!' So we held hands for a while. Cameron was just looking over there (thinking), 'These guys, what are they doing?'"
~IMDb.com
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Okay.
i just came back and i thought it was really funny. Puss in Boots was great, Antonio did a great job. i liked the [SPOILERS] mission impossible spoof with pinnochio and ladie's underwear[/SPOLERS] i give it 4/5
Really well done.
The animation and quality of the rendering was BRILLIANT! A big step above the first Shrek in terms of that, which was also very good looking.
Jennifer Saunders was so great.
I wouldn't say that this has that big of a shot at the Palme D'Or, but it's pretty damn good anyway.
(And shoot, Troy cost over $200 million and it's already gonna get its ass kicked by Shrek, which will probably have a lot more staying power)
Quote from: QuoyleI liked it. It was cute and creative. I thought the first one was funnier, but this had some funny stuff too.
I agree.
Quote from: matt35mmThe animation and quality of the rendering was BRILLIANT! A big step above the first Shrek in terms of that, which was also very good looking.
I agree.
Quote from: ewardone brilliantly funny joke involving SPOILER DELETED
Funniest thing in either movie.
Overall it was good but the Incredibles trailer kind of stole the thunder from Shrek. VIVA LA PIXAR!
SHREK 2 BEATS POKEMON IN THE RANKINGS FOR OPENING WEDNESDAY
Source: E! News
According to BoxOfficeMojo, Shrek 2 took in an early estimate of $11.8 million for its opening day. Beating out Pokemon: The First Movie (10.4 M) and just below Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines (12.4 M) for opening Wednesday single day grosses. Here's a clip from the E! news article:
Brandon Gray of the ticket-tracking site BoxOfficeMojo.com, predicted a $60 million Friday-Sunday opening weekend for Shrek 2 and a five-day (Wednesday-Sunday) gross of about $84 million.
The original Shrek took in $42.3 million in its first three days of release in May 2001. It went on to score $267.7 million--its year's third-biggest moneymaker.
Gray said Shrek 2 should live up to its birthright, and avoid a Van Helsing (i.e., a precipitous fall at the box office following a big opening weekend) as the summer wears on.
"It has a shot at outgrossing the first movie," Gray said. "It will have longer legs than most sequels."
Still, it'll have a ways to go to become the top-grossing animated film of all-time, with Finding Nemo's $339.7 million being no easy catch.
Quote from: Brandon Gray via El Duderino's PostGray said Shrek 2 should live up to its birthright, and avoid a Van Helsing (i.e., a precipitous fall at the box office following a big opening weekend) as the summer wears on.
A Van Helsing? Dude, what about Troy? Troy didn't even have a full week at the top! Troy had about 5 days (it opened Friday and is now being whooped on Wednesday). Plus, Van Helsing didn't cost over $200 million.
Poor Troy.
That's what happens when you fuck with Aronofsky
Took me a little while (four hours), but I got it now. :wink:
it doesn't really make sense if you look at it from the Jackman/Van Helsing angle, though
...i still don't get it...
Brad Pitt was signed on to Aronofsky's new project, The Fountain, and they were just about to start shooting when Brad Pitt decided to leave and do Troy instead.
I went, I saw, I liked.
I just saw it. This is an all around vastly entertaining and cute flick.
This was such a funny film. I agree that the animation was fantastic and looked wonderful, especially on the journey to Far, Far Away. This was a huge audience pleaser and I think it had more laughs than the original. The references to different movies was entertaining, especially any of the Disney cartoon references. SPOILER! One of my favorite lines had to be when the fairy godmother was making the point that no fairy tales with happy endings have ogres, and she said "Cinderella, no ogres....Snow White, no ogres....Pretty Woman, no ogres." That just struck me as funny.
ugh, i hate this movie already.
Quote from: bonanzatazugh, i hate this movie already.
I haven't even seen it but it's going to have over 100 mil by sunday. Also, it opened on over 4000 screens. Is that a record?
Yes. Shrek 2 is the first movie to cross the 4,000 theater mark.
I just got back from this. I'd say it was just as good as the first one. It seemed that there were a lot more jokes that only adults would understand...which made it really enjoyable in that aspect. I didn't laugh super hard or anything, nothing that would make me cry or something, but the first one didn't do that either. It was just a lot of fun.
Hell, even my husband liked it, and he hates movies! GASP
I just got back. my son wanted to go...I think these movies are highly overrated. The animation is stunning, but they don't hold a candle to the pixar films (monsters, inc., nemo, etc.). They just don't have script or the heart....
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Quote from: depooterthey don't hold a candle to the pixar films (monsters, inc., nemo, etc.). They just don't have script or the heart....
Agreed.
The movie was essentially meaningless aside from parody and homage. Not that there's anything, umm, wrong with that.
INTENSE SPOILERSSame issue as with the first Shrek: can the formula plot be explained by parody? I mean this one was pretty thick with cliché... especially the party crashing last moment save the day redemption.
The COPS sequence was completely classic: white bronco, pepper spray, and (of course) catnip.
Katzenberg announces two more Shrek films
Source: Moviehole
Jeffrey Katzenberg announced in Cannes this week that Dreamworks plans to do a "Shrek 3" and a "Shrek 4" should the latest sequel be a success.
"Before the first one was finished we talked about what the whole story of Shrek is, and each of the chapters answers questions about the first movie and gives us an insight."
"Shrek 3 and 4 are going to reveal other unanswered questions and, finally, in the last chapter, we will understand how Shrek came to be in that swamp, when we meet him in the first movie. There is a reason he came to be there, but there is another chapter to the story before that", he says.
money-money-money-money...monaaaayyyh!
saw this today and really enjoyed it. while ill agree it cant hold a candle to ANY pixar film, (maybe Bugs Life), it was still one of the best things i've seen all year. it was brimming with visual humor and just as many things as they could squeeze in the frame. i havent seen the first one since the theatre, but remember being a little offput by some of the 'fart' humor they seemed to be stooping to, but i thought this one was much more clever. i also remember thinking that mike myers voice seemed to be too awkward during the first film and as he was given much of the humor that was another drawback. but this one, he was probably given the LEAST to do and everyone else got to be funny. i was laughing to the point of tears a few times and laughing pretty much throughout. puss in boots was hilarious. this movie was good. :yabbse-thumbup:
i wasnt terribly excited about this film but i was really surprised when i saw it to see how much i enjoyed myself. i really appreciate how careful the studios are a lot of times about making sequels actually really good. they know that one false step could 'kill the franchise' and eliminate potential hundreds of millions from entering their pockets, so now they realize the power of the sequel and a lot of times will go the extra mile to make sure they dont mess it up. way to go shrek.
Source: davisdvd
Release Calender: November 2, 2004: Shrek 2
Quote from: SiliasRubySource: davisdvd
Release Calender: November 2, 2004: Shrek 2
Wanna bet that gets pushed back to around Christmas?
While it didn't have the freshness of the first one, I liked Shrek 2. I wish they had given Puss-in-Boots more catlike mannerisms. The hairball scene and the big sad eyes were hilarious. Yes, much of the humor is based on parody, but they did it very well.
I managed to stay seated throughout the whole thing, and everytime I was getting dangerously bored something amusing enough would happen, but I really didn't like this much. I loved the first one the first time I saw it, but it had zero repeat value, and that trait apparently extends to this extension. Some of the jokes were funny, but every single one of them was just so obvious. The whole thing felt gaudy. The two Starbucks across the street from each other was an amusing touch, and I'm glad Tom Waits and Nick Cave will not have any financial troubles for the time being, but I'm sorta dreading the third and fourth installments.
It's funny, though, reading the reviews of this one...people who didn't care much for the first one LOVE this one, and vice versa.
I've seen Monsters Inc about thirty times by now, and still can't tear myself away from it when my little sister turns it on. I think Jeffery Katzenberg revealed the fallacy of this series when he said that he wanted it to be distinctly from an adult's point of view. The first one sorta worked, but here they tried waaayyy too hard to make it appeal to adults, while still making it safe for kids.
Universal has today officially announced Shrek 2 for release in shops this November. The hit animated sequel will be available to own from the 5th November this year, priced at around $29.99. Details are still pretty sketchy, although as things stand, this will only be a single-disc release. The film itself will be presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Surround tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary with directors Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, and a second commentary by producer Aron Warner and editor Mike Andrews. Rounding things off will be a number of behind the scenes featurettes, interactive games and more. Available from the same day will be Shrek: The Story So Far. This is a boxed set containing Shrek, Shrek 2, a Shrek 2 bonus disc and Shrek 3D. Retail for this will be set at around $54.99.
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Uh...
TOP TEN ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE GROSSES
1. Titanic
2. Star Wars
3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
4. Shrek 2
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
6. Spider-Man
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. The Passion of The Christ
9. Jurassic Park
10. Spider-Man 2
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As you can see, Shrek 2 DID beat out The Phantom Menace by a spot, so yes, it is now technically the number 1 comedy of all time.
Yeah, I know, but that quote screams "best!" not "highest grossing", I never said it was wrong. Which I just realised I actually did. Sorry, I meant to write 'misleading' in the previous post, not 'mistaking'.
Oh. Well movie studios do that all the time. Last week, The Village was the #1 movie in America. This week it's Collateral.
But I agree, it's not the best comedy of all time. It is interesting how misleading studio comments can be though. Apparently The Door In The Floor is the most talked about movie all year. How many people have you heard talking about The Door In The Floor?
Quote from: matt35mmApparently The Door In The Floor is the most talked about movie all year. How many people have you heard talking about The Door In The Floor?
including you? one.
i was watching this on an airplane and took out my headphones halfway through to read a david sedaris book ("dress your family in corduroy and denim" which was a million times more entertaining). puss in boots made me laugh, but the rest of the movie bored me to death and/or made me so angry. i just felt like the writers were saying to themselves, "oh my, we are so delightfully tongue in cheek!" i hated that. i did look up at the screen and saw the aforementioned catnip joke. i really thought puss in boots was a toker and thought it very distasteful until i remembered what you guys had been saying. i still think it was kind of distasteful, but it gave me a chuckle.
'Shrek 2' Bested Only by 'Titanic' at Aussie Box Office
Shrek 2 has become only the second film in history to gross more than $50 million at the Australian box office, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday, noting that the only film to earn more was 1999's Titanic ($57.6 million). According to the newspaper, almost 25 percent of the Australian population has purchased tickets to see the green ogre.
i havn't.
"Shrek" on Deck for Broadway
Everybody's favorite ogre is headed for the boards.
Oscar- and Tony-winning director Sam Mendes is teaming up with DreamWorks Animation and one of the masterminds behind the puppet-powered hit production Avenue Q to bring Shrek--The Musical to Broadway.
Prince Charming will no doubt be jealous.
Jason Moore, the Tony-winning director of Avenue Q, will helm Shrek's stage debut, while David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World) has been hired to pen the book. No word yet on a composer, but producers say they hope to make an announcement soon.
"To have a book writer as witty and talented as David Lindsay-Abaire is a great gift, and I am particularly thrilled that the ship is being steered by someone as gifted as Jason Moore," said Mendes in a statement Friday. "I know that they and their chosen collaborators will come up with something that is intensely theatrical, yet retains all the warmth, imagination and comic invention of the movies."
No immediate word on the show's plot, but it will likely blend elements from both Shrek and Shrek 2 and perhaps expand the scope of Shrek's fairy-tale world.
While Mendes is best known for his Oscar-winning work directing 1999's American Beauty, his roots are in the theater. He served as artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre from 1992 to 2002, overseeing more than 70 productions there and importing several of his award-winning plays to Broadway, including The Blue Room headlining Nicole Kidman. He won a Tony in 1998 for his revival of Cabaret.
Mendes' company, SCAMP Film & Theatre, will shepherd the project, with Mendes on board as creative producer. Shrek and Shrek 2 director Andrew Adamson and producer Aron Warner have signed up as creative consultants.
Shrek--The Musical marks DreamWorks' first stab at the theater. The project is the result of a first-look deal between the studio and Mendes that was inked after the studio released his second film, 2002's The Road to Perdition.
Moore could not be reached for comment, but told the New York Times Friday that he's psyched about adapting the fractured fairy tale to the stage.
"There's a supreme challenge in bringing an animated world to the stage and making it theatrical," Moore told the newspaper. "But what's so wonderful about Shrek is that anarchic attitude placed in a fairy-tale world that I think will survive onstage."
Presumably, that world will include Shrek's gal-pal, Princess Fiona,and his verbose sidekick, Donkey, along with other characters from the two 'toons, including Puss In Boots, Pinocchio, the Three Pigs, Dragon and Gingerbread.
Moore's goal is to make those critters as real as possible, as he did for the puppet stars of Avenue Q, which was the surprise Tony winner for Best Musical this year, and in the same way Julie Taymor was able to breathe life into puppets in her Broadway translation of Disney's The Lion King.
And when it comes to the task, Moore's not exactly green.
With Shrek--The Musical on deck, the director's slate is getting pretty crowded. In addition to supervising an Avenue Q TV series and a Las Vegas production, Moore is also signed to helm a TV adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and mount a Broadway revival of Steel Magnolias.
DreamWorks' original Shrek gobbled up nearly $480 million in worldwide ticket sales and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, while its sequel nearly doubled that, tallying $880 million worldwide to surpass Disney's Finding Nemo as the top-grossing animated movie of all time.
If all goes as planned, Shrek will be making his debut on the Great White Way in 2006.
I don't have anything constructive to add to this thread, but I would like to do my part in countering Shrek 2's massive success by reiterating how much I dislike it.
Puss Steps Out on His Own
DreamWorks developing a direct-to-video release of a film featuring Shrek 2's popular Puss in Boots.
Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots, as played in Shrek 2, has become so popular that DreamWorks is giving him his own film, currently slated for a direct-to-video release. Maybe it was the amount of votes he got on Far Far Away Idol, as presented on the Shrek2 DVD.
Ed Decter and John Strauss have been hired to write the script, and the exact storyline is unknown at this point. No deal has been signed yet, but Banderas has often said he loves the role and will likely return to voice the character.
Writers Decter and Strauss wrote Disney's The Lizzie Maguire Movie and are also writing and producing The Jane Plan for the Mouse House. They just finished Rebound, a basketball movie for Fox.
it's never going to end.
Quote from: ©bradit's never going to end.
Wouldn't you keep milking at the teat of your cash cow until it's dry?
'Shrek 3' hibernating until '07
DreamWorks Animation Studios announced Wednesday that it will postpone the release of "Shrek 3" from a November 2006 playdate to May 2007.
The announcement comes immediately on the heels of another date shift, announced Tuesday by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation, that moved "Cars" from a November 2005 bow to May 2006.
The rival animation companies have shifted their future potential animated blockbusters from a fall release to an early summer bow with the hopes of capitalizing on both the large summer audience and the holiday DVD market that follows.
For DreamWorks, the move allows the newly public company to stick with a formula that has worked incredibly well for the first two "Shrek" movies. Both films were released in early May and went on to a combined domestic gross of more than $708 million.
"The sheer magnitude of the 'Shrek' franchise has led us to conclude that a May release date, with a DVD release around the holiday season, will enable us to best maximize performance and increase profitability, thereby generating enhanced asset value and better returns for our shareholders," DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said in a statement.
According to DreamWorks executive chairman Roger Enrico, the company had been thinking of shifting its release slate but decided to make the change official after Pixar's announcement Tuesday because it suggests that Pixar's future strategy will be to release all of its films in the summer. That meant that the untitled Pixar feature to follow "Cars," which was set for November 2006, will now likely shift to summer 2007.
According to Enrico, that left an opening for DreamWorks' "Flushed Away," the animated feature from Aardman Animation, which will now bow in November 2006.
"Shrek 3's" move to early summer 2007, however, may find it competing with Pixar's first post-"Cars" movie, though no date has been set for that untitled feature.
But while "Cars" and "Shrek 3" are opting for summer releases, that doesn't mean late fall releases for family-oriented fare are no longer in fashion.
Warner Bros. Pictures will release its fourth "Harry Potter" film in November, even though it broke from its "Potter" holiday release pattern to open the third film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," this past summer. According to Dan Fellman, president of distribution for Warners, the move back to November for the next "Potter" is more a factor of production schedules rather than release issues. "These films are very difficult to make in one year," said Fellman, whose first two "Potter" films were released in the November frame. "The push (to November) just gives it more time. Our video will be strong regardless of when we release it."
Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox will bow its upcoming animated film "Robots" from Blue Sky Studios in March. The computer-animated film about a town of robots will open in the same time period as Blue Sky's previous production "Ice Age," which earned $176 million in 2002.
"We were so pleased with 'Ice Age,' we're going on the same date," said Bruce Snyder, president of distribution at Fox. "Sometimes it's better to be alone in March than competing for the kids with three other films in May or June."
can't...take...any...more...please stop...kill..ing...poor...c......brad...c...me...dead...soon....
Quote from: DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey KatzenbergThe sheer magnitude of the 'Shrek' franchise has led us to conclude that a May release date, with a DVD release around the holiday season, will enable us to best maximize performance and increase profitability, thereby generating enhanced asset value and better returns for our shareholders
goddamn that sounds awful. he could atleast PRETEND the move has something to do with 'making the best film possible', we know we 'have to please the fans of the first two' and 'really give the audience something they've never seen before.'