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2010 • PG • 1h 33m • Adventure, Animation, Comedy • DreamWorks

It ain't ogre...til it's ogre.

🍅 58% 54%

58

3.00

6.3

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$70.80M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$238.70M

Final

Worldwide total

$756.20M

$517.50M international

Domestic legs3.37x

Budget$165M

2010 rank#8

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Cast & crew

Full Mitchell filmography

Mike Mitchell

Mike Mitchell Director

Mike Myers

Mike Myers Starring

Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy Starring

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz Starring

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas Starring

Walt Dohrn

Walt Dohrn Starring

ScreenplayDarren Lemke, Josh Klausner Produced byGina Shay, Teresa Cheng CinematographyYong Duk Jhun MusicHarry Gregson-Williams StudioDreamWorks SeriesShrek

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 May 21-23 1 $70.8M — 4,359 $16,251 $70.8M

2 May 28-30 1 $43.3M −38.9% 4,367 $9,917 $133.1M

3 Jun 4-6 1 $25.5M −41.2% 4,386 $5,810 $183.2M

4 Jun 11-13 3 $15.8M −38.1% 3,868 $4,077 $210.0M

5 Jun 18-20 5 $5.6M −64.4% 3,207 $1,752 $223.1M

6 Jun 25-27 7 $3.1M −44.8% 2,340 $1,325 $229.5M

7 Jul 2-4 9 $890.2K −71.3% 957 $930 $232.3M

8 Jul 9-11 14 $502.4K −43.6% 461 $1,089 $233.8M

9 Jul 16-18 21 $280.4K −44.2% 240 $1,168 $234.4M

10 Jul 23-25 23 $225.8K −19.5% 202 $1,117 $234.8M

11 Jul 30-Aug 1 17 $574.0K +154.2% 330 $1,739 $235.6M

12 Aug 6-8 19 $434.2K −24.4% 308 $1,409 $236.6M

13 Aug 13-15 21 $360.2K −17.0% 254 $1,418 $237.2M

14 Aug 20-22 27 $277.5K −23.0% 232 $1,195 $237.7M

15 Aug 27-29 32 $192.6K −30.6% 207 $930 $238.1M

16 Sep 3-5 35 $195.4K +1.4% 145 $1,347 $238.3M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri May 21 #1 $20.8M — $20.8M 4,359 $4,772 1

Sat May 22 #1 $28.9M +39% $49.7M 4,359 $6,627 2

Sun May 23 #1 $21.1M −27% $70.8M 4,359 $4,850 3

Mon May 24 #1 $5.7M −73% $76.5M 4,359 $1,308 4

Tue May 25 #1 $4.7M −18% $81.2M 4,359 $1,075 5

Wed May 26 #1 $4.1M −13% $85.3M 4,359 $935 6

Thu May 27 #2 $4.4M +9% $89.8M 4,359 $1,019 7

Fri May 28 #2 $11.4M +156% −45% $101.1M 4,367 $2,601 8

Sat May 29 #1 $16.9M +49% −41% $118.0M 4,367 $3,873 9

Sun May 30 #1 $15.0M −11% −29% $133.1M 4,367 $3,442 10

Mon May 31 #1 $13.7M −9% +141% $146.8M 4,367 $3,148 11

Tue Jun 1 #1 $3.9M −72% −17% $150.7M 4,367 $887 12

Wed Jun 2 #1 $3.4M −11% −15% $154.1M 4,367 $789 13

Thu Jun 3 #1 $3.6M +5% −19% $157.7M 4,367 $826 14

Fri Jun 4 #1 $6.5M +80% −43% $164.2M 4,386 $1,480 15

Sat Jun 5 #1 $10.8M +66% −36% $175.0M 4,386 $2,461 16

Sun Jun 6 #1 $8.2M −24% −45% $183.2M 4,386 $1,869 17

Mon Jun 7 #2 $2.4M −70% −82% $185.7M 4,386 $553 18

Tue Jun 8 #1 $2.9M +21% −24% $188.6M 4,386 $671 19

Wed Jun 9 #1 $2.9M −3% −17% $191.5M 4,386 $653 20

Thu Jun 10 #1 $2.8M −3% −23% $194.3M 4,386 $634 21

Fri Jun 11 #3 $4.5M +60% −31% $198.7M 3,868 $1,153 22

Sat Jun 12 #3 $6.6M +48% −39% $205.3M 3,868 $1,702 23

Sun Jun 13 #3 $4.7M −28% −42% $210.0M 3,868 $1,220 24

Mon Jun 14 #3 $1.9M −60% −23% $211.9M 3,868 $483 25

Tue Jun 15 #3 $2.0M +7% −32% $213.9M 3,868 $517 26

Wed Jun 16 #3 $1.9M −5% −34% $215.8M 3,868 $490 27

Thu Jun 17 #3 $1.7M −12% −40% $217.5M 3,868 $430 28

Fri Jun 18 #7 $1.7M +1% −62% $219.1M 3,207 $525 29

Sat Jun 19 #6 $2.1M +27% −68% $221.3M 3,207 $665 30

Sun Jun 20 #5 $1.8M −16% −62% $223.1M 3,207 $561 31

Mon Jun 21 #5 $751.8K −58% −60% $223.8M 3,207 $234 32

Tue Jun 22 #5 $892.1K +19% −55% $224.7M 3,207 $278 33

Wed Jun 23 #5 $815.4K −9% −57% $225.5M 3,207 $254 34

Thu Jun 24 #5 $901.4K +11% −46% $226.4M 3,207 $281 35

Fri Jun 25 #8 $872.5K −3% −48% $227.3M 2,340 $372 36

Sat Jun 26 #6 $1.2M +42% −42% $228.6M 2,340 $530 37

Sun Jun 27 #6 $988.4K −20% −45% $229.5M 2,340 $422 38

Mon Jun 28 #7 $515.2K −48% −31% $230.1M 2,340 $220 39

Tue Jun 29 #7 $525.0K +2% −41% $230.6M 2,340 $224 40

Wed Jun 30 #7 $500.2K −5% −39% $231.1M 2,340 $213 41

Thu Jul 1 #8 $309.0K −38% −66% $231.4M 2,340 $132 42

Fri Jul 2 #10 $292.7K −5% −66% $231.7M 957 $305 43

Sat Jul 3 #9 $328.5K +12% −74% $232.0M 957 $343 44

Sun Jul 4 #9 $269.0K −18% −73% $232.3M 957 $281 45

Mon Jul 5 #9 $385.8K +43% −25% $232.7M 957 $403 46

Tue Jul 6 #9 $209.1K −46% −60% $232.9M 957 $218 47

Wed Jul 7 #9 $203.8K −3% −59% $233.1M 957 $212 48

Thu Jul 8 #9 $205.2K +1% −34% $233.3M 957 $214 49

Fri Jul 9 $165.0K −20% −44% $233.4M 461 $357 50

Sat Jul 10 $207.4K +26% −37% $233.7M 461 $449 51

Sun Jul 11 $130.1K −37% −52% $233.8M 461 $282 52

Mon Jul 12 $70.2K −46% −82% $233.9M 461 $152 53

Tue Jul 13 #12 $103.8K +48% −50% $234.0M 461 $225 54

Wed Jul 14 $83.1K −20% −59% $234.0M 461 $180 55

Thu Jul 15 $71.2K −14% −65% $234.1M 461 $154 56

Fri Jul 16 $85.9K +21% −48% $234.2M 240 $357 57

Sat Jul 17 $115.0K +34% −45% $234.3M 240 $479 58

Sun Jul 18 $79.5K −31% −39% $234.4M 240 $331 59

Mon Jul 19 $51.1K −36% −27% $234.4M 240 $212 60

Tue Jul 20 $70.5K +38% −32% $234.5M 240 $293 61

Wed Jul 21 $54.9K −22% −34% $234.6M 240 $228 62

Thu Jul 22 $50.1K −9% −30% $234.6M 240 $208 63

Fri Jul 23 $76.4K +53% −11% $234.7M 202 $378 64

Sat Jul 24 $91.1K +19% −21% $234.8M 202 $451 65

Sun Jul 25 $58.2K −36% −27% $234.8M 202 $288 66

Mon Jul 26 $33.9K −42% −34% $234.9M 202 $167 67

Tue Jul 27 $50.3K +48% −29% $234.9M 202 $248 68

Wed Jul 28 $73.4K +46% +34% $235.0M 202 $363 69

Thu Jul 29 $69.4K −5% +39% $235.1M 202 $343 70

Fri Jul 30 $173.5K +150% +127% $235.2M 330 $525 71

Sat Jul 31 $226.0K +30% +148% $235.5M 330 $684 72

Sun Aug 1 #17 $174.5K −23% +200% $235.6M 330 $528 73

Mon Aug 2 $106.3K −39% +214% $235.8M 330 $321 74

Tue Aug 3 $141.9K +34% +182% $235.9M 330 $430 75

Wed Aug 4 $115.4K −19% +57% $236.0M 330 $349 76

Thu Aug 5 $109.2K −5% +57% $236.1M 330 $331 77

Fri Aug 6 $132.0K +21% −24% $236.3M 308 $428 78

Sat Aug 7 $170.3K +29% −25% $236.4M 308 $552 79

Sun Aug 8 $132.0K −23% −24% $236.6M 308 $428 80

Mon Aug 9 $73.4K −44% −31% $236.6M 308 $238 81

Tue Aug 10 $95.0K +29% −33% $236.7M 308 $308 82

Wed Aug 11 $79.0K −17% −32% $236.8M 308 $256 83

Thu Aug 12 $74.2K −6% −32% $236.9M 308 $240 84

Fri Aug 13 $107.8K +45% −18% $237.0M 254 $424 85

Sat Aug 14 $143.3K +33% −16% $237.1M 254 $564 86

Sun Aug 15 $109.1K −24% −17% $237.2M 254 $429 87

Mon Aug 16 $54.7K −50% −25% $237.3M 254 $215 88

Tue Aug 17 $65.5K +20% −31% $237.4M 254 $258 89

Wed Aug 18 $53.0K −19% −33% $237.4M 254 $208 90

Thu Aug 19 $50.0K −6% −33% $237.5M 254 $196 91

Fri Aug 20 $74.1K +48% −31% $237.5M 232 $319 92

Sat Aug 21 $117.7K +59% −18% $237.7M 232 $507 93

Sun Aug 22 $85.6K −27% −22% $237.7M 232 $369 94

Mon Aug 23 $33.8K −61% −38% $237.8M 232 $145 95

Tue Aug 24 $35.7K +6% −46% $237.8M 232 $153 96

Wed Aug 25 $28.3K −21% −47% $237.8M 232 $122 97

Thu Aug 26 $26.6K −6% −47% $237.9M 232 $114 98

Fri Aug 27 $49.1K +84% −34% $237.9M 207 $237 99

Sat Aug 28 $88.2K +80% −25% $238.0M 207 $426 100

Sun Aug 29 $55.3K −37% −35% $238.1M 207 $267 101

Mon Aug 30 $17.2K −69% −49% $238.1M 207 $82 102

Tue Aug 31 $20.3K +18% −43% $238.1M 207 $97 103

Wed Sep 1 $16.1K −20% −43% $238.1M 207 $77 104

Thu Sep 2 $16.3K +1% −39% $238.1M 207 $78 105

Fri Sep 3 $38.2K +134% −22% $238.2M 179 $213 106

Sat Sep 4 $78.5K +105% −11% $238.2M 179 $438 107

Sun Sep 5 $78.7K n/c +42% $238.3M 179 $439 108

Mon Sep 6 #35 $52.9K −33% +208% $238.4M 179 $295 109

Tue Sep 7 $8.8K −83% −56% $238.4M 179 $49 110

Wed Sep 8 $7.6K −14% −53% $238.4M 179 $42 111

Thu Sep 9 $7.6K +1% −53% $238.4M 179 $42 112

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$235.1M

May 21Jun 7Jun 25Jul 12Jul 29

Weekend grossWk 10 · $225.8K

$70.8M

$43.3M

$25.5M

$15.8M

$5.6M

$3.1M

$890.2K

$502.4K

$280.4K

$225.8K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 4,386 → 202 −95.4%

4,359 open202 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −19.5%

−38.9%

W1→2

−41.2%

W2→3

−38.1%

W3→4

−64.4%

W4→5

−44.8%

W5→6

−71.3%

W6→7

−43.6%

W7→8

−44.2%

W8→9

−19.5%

W9→10

Steepest −71.3%Best hold −19.5%

Run milestones

$200M in 23 days

$100M

Day 8

May 28

$200M

Day 23

Jun 12

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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