The project that boosted the studio and established it as a competitor to Pixar is Shrek, released in 2000. Loosely based on the 1990 children’s picture book of the same name by William Steig ...

Shrek and the Minions will both be on the big screen in 2026. Universal Pictures announced Friday that the highly-anticipated animated movies are swapping their theatrical release dates, with ...

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek 5 will now open on Wednesday, December 23, 2026, instead of July 1 next year. At the same time, the studio said Friday it is moving up ...

Deadline (via Toonado.com) has learned that Shrek 5 is now set to open on Wednesday, December 23, 2026. The long-awaited sequel had originally been scheduled for July 1, 2026, so while this delay ...

Finally, Pixar came up against a glut of competition from fellow animation studios like Dreamworks ("Shrek") and Illumination ("Despicable Me"). "There's just so much out there, and it's harder ...

Minions 3 was originally slated to release June 30th of 2027, but now it’s moving up almost an entire year earlier to Shrek 5’s previous date of July 2026. For fans of the Minions (which there ...

Universal Pictures has delayed Shrek 5 by a few months to December 23, 2026 while putting Despicable 3 spin-off Minions 3 in its original slot. As reported by Variety, Minions 3 will therefore now ...

By Sara Ruberg Perry, a miniature donkey whose handlers said he was used by DreamWorks animators as a model for the chatty “Shrek” character named Donkey, died last week at the age of 30.

He had been a fixture of the Bol Park pasture for over three decades, with Kiratli explaining that one of the animators for Shrek lived nearby, and was directed towards the pasture by his wife ...