‘Shrek 5’ Set for 2026 with Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz

Shrek 5 is formally a go, with Common and DreamWorks Animation asserting that the storied franchise will return on July 1, 2026. Stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz will return 25 years after the unique Shrek hit theaters.

The characteristic has lengthy been in improvement and can arrive 16 years after earlier entry, Shrek Ceaselessly After, which bowed in 2010 and earned $752.6 million globally.

Walt Dohrn will direct after working as a author on the second and third movies, and as head of story on the fourth movie. Minions: The Rise of Gru co-director Brad Ableson will co-direct, with Shrek Ceaselessly After producer Gina Shay and Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri producing.

The Shrek movie franchise started life underneath Jeffrey Katzenberg’s tutelage with the 2001 movie that was praised for its animation model and for taking part in with fairy-tale tropes. It centered on an ogre named Shrek (Myers), who falls for Fiona (Diaz), the princess of Far Far Away who has been cursed, trapped within the physique of an ogre. Donkey (Murphy) supplied comedian aid, pathos and friendship to Shrek. The movie earned an enormous $492.2 million globally, not adjusted for inflation, and gained the Oscar for greatest animated characteristic (and helped immortalize the band Smash Mouth for a technology of viewers).

The sequence, based mostly on William Steig’s e book, was vastly profitable for DreamWorks, which was then led by Katzenberg. The Shrek empire, together with a pair of feline-focused Puss in Boots spinoffs, is the second-biggest animated franchise of all time on the field workplace, grossing $2.9 billion globally. It has additionally spawned a touring present and a Broadway musical.

In 2022, sequel Puss in Boots: The Final Want earned a better-than-expected $481.5 million on the worldwide field workplace in a win for DreamWorks Animation within the post-Katzenberg period (he offered his firm to NBCUniversal for a hefty $3.8 billion in 2016).

Information of Shrek 5 comes because the household field workplace make a long-awaited rebound following the pandemic. Common and Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 is off to a formidable begin on the summer time field workplace, whereas Disney and Pixar’s summer time tentpole Inside Out 2 is already among the many top-grossing animated movies of all time.