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Shrek Forever After

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

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

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$70.8M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$239M
Final
Worldwide Total
$753M
$514M international
Domestic Legs3.37x
Budget$165M
2010 Rank#8
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
May 21-23 1 $70.8M $70.8M 4,359 $16K 1
May 28-30 1 $43.3M -38.9% $133.1M 4,367 $10K 2
Jun 4-6 1 $25.5M -41.2% $183.2M 4,386 $6K 3
Jun 11-13 3 $15.8M -38.1% $210.0M 3,868 $4K 4
Jun 18-20 5 $5.6M -64.4% $223.1M 3,207 $2K 5
Jun 25-27 7 $3.1M -44.8% $229.5M 2,340 $1K 6
Jul 2-4 9 $890K -71.3% $232.3M 957 $930 7
Jul 9-11 14 $502K -43.6% $233.8M 461 $1K 8
Jul 16-18 21 $280K -44.2% $234.4M 240 $1K 9
Jul 23-25 23 $226K -19.5% $234.8M 202 $1K 10
Jul 30-Aug 1 17 $574K +154.2% $235.6M 330 $2K 11
Aug 6-8 19 $434K -24.4% $236.6M 308 $1K 12
Aug 13-15 21 $360K -17.0% $237.2M 254 $1K 13
Aug 20-22 27 $277K -23.0% $237.7M 232 $1K 14
Aug 27-29 32 $193K -30.6% $238.1M 207 $930 15
Sep 3-5 35 $195K +1.4% $238.3M 145 $1K 16

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byMike Mitchell
ScreenplayDarren Lemke, Josh Klausner
Produced byGina Shay, Teresa Cheng
CinematographyYong Duk Jhun
MusicHarry Gregson-Williams
StarringMike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Walt Dohrn, Julie Andrews
StudioDreamWorks