Shrek Named Richest Ogre Alive

Dreamworks' latest 3D offering, "Shrek the Third," has no surpassed the $600 million dollar mark worldwide.



The film has also pushed the Shrek Franchise total intake past the $2 billion mark, which is nothing short of insane.

Glendale, CA – July 9, 2007 – DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek the Third continued its stellar box office performance around the globe, with the cumulative worldwide gross now surpassing the $600 million mark. The history making U.S. opening of Shrek the Third—the largest domestic debut ever for an animated film—was duplicated in many key territories around the world, with #1 animated openings of all time in such countries as the U.K. (where it remains at the top of the box office charts for the second week of release), Russia, Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and others. With an estimated $35 million weekend take from 6,114 locations across 53 territories, the international tally now stands at $324 million—and combining that with the current U.S. box office total of $316 million propels the lovable green ogre from the studio’s most successful film franchise to a cumulative worldwide tally of $640 million. With the overwhelming success of the third installment, the Shrek franchise of films have combined to reach over $2 billion in global box office receipts to date making it one of the most successful franchises in movie history. The film is distributed globally by Paramount Pictures and Paramount Pictures International.

How long before Shrek moves out of the swamp and into some high-rise penthouse, where he gets hooked on nose candy and crashes his onion-shaped cariage into a light pole on Santa Monica Blvd?

It's bound to happen.