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...feature. But it fell only 34% in its second weekend, and for its third time around, it dropped just 12.6%. In 17 days the movie has taken in more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Also, as Clash quickly fades, and with no new 3-D movie opening until Shrek Forever After (also from DreamWorks) on May 21, Dragon will retain those thousands of screens that charge higher ticket prices. And that's something to roar about...
...recent, but the other items could be the recipe for any of the DreamWorks films that have entertained vast audiences over the past decade. The studio's three Shrek movies have earned $2.2 billion at the worldwide box office. Include the last seven capers made at its California headquarters - Shark Tale, Madagascar and its sequel, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs Aliens - and the 10-pack has a $5.3 billion global gross. That's just a smidge under the $5.6 billion taken in by all 10 of the features produced by DreamWorks' rival, Pixar...
...least Oscar voters seem to think so. Nine years ago, when the award for Best Animated Feature was established, DreamWorks got the first one, for Shrek. Since then, Katzenberg's products have been shut out (the studio distributed one Oscar winner, Nick Park's veddy English Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit), while Pixar has taken five: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL•E and Up. This year, DreamWorks' perky Monsters vs Aliens was not even one of the five finalists. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd...
...than the signature DreamWorks films - at least as much an action epic as a cartoon comedy. In its loftier moments, it might almost be called Pixarian. But the movie may simply be a detour for the studio, not the hint of a new direction. After all, in May comes Shrek Forever After, in which, we'd guess, the DreamWorks vaudevillians will cavort again...
Viewers addicted to 3-D are going to have to wait another seven weeks for the next one, Shrek Forever After. In the meantime, they'll just have to rewatch Alice, Dragon and Clash. Hey, movie exhibitors: Care to bring back Avatar...