Somebody once told me... That Shrek was a veritable license to print money. But would that always be the case?
How is Disney going to live down the success of DreamWorks’ computer-animated blockbuster “Shrek”? After a few years of moderate winners in the animation field (“Antz,” “Chicken Run”), the almost ...
Never mind “Pearl Harbor.” The big summer movie battle commences this Friday with the release of Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire.” Disney once owned the summer, but DreamWorks’ “Shrek,” released ...
Disney opens its latest animated extravaganza, the highly anticipated “Monsters, Inc.” on Friday – and there’s a whole lot more riding on it than the reported $100 million budget. Arch-rival ...
While Disney was enjoying “Monster” box office receipts for its computer-animated theatrical release, DreamWorks and Universal Studios were raking in Shrek-sized green of their own with the biggest ...
In a year in which DreamWorks Home Entertainment encouraged consumers to spend a staggering $436 million on the video version of Shrek and Universal Studios Home Video had three titles that surpassed ...
While Disney and Pixar seemingly rule critical lists for animated movies, DreamWorks has released films that match both ...
The hallelujah chorus has begun. Since it opened last week, “Shrek” has become a box-office hit, with the second highest debut for an animated film after “Toy Story 2.” Entertainment Weekly calls it ...
Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...
An anti-fairy tale run amuck. Let me explain. Shrek is Dreamworks’ latest salvo in the bloody popcorn wars it wages with Disney, its only current rival in the feature animation industry. Loosely based ...
He’s a mean, green halitosis machine, but the computer-animated star of “Shrek” can laugh all the way to the mudbank. This exuberantly irreverent cartoon about a beauty and a beast will be minting ...