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"Shrek 2" Takes 'Toon Title
The fairy tale continues for everyone's favorite ogre.
After hauling in $23.3 million in ticket sales this weekend, DreamWorks' Shrek 2 has bested Disney-Pixar's Finding Nemo to become the top-grossing 'toon of all time, according to box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
The sequel to 2001's monster hit Shrek wrested the title away on Saturday, surpassing Nemo's $339.8 million with a domestic take of $346.5 million.
The milestone was all the more remarkable since Shrek 2 accomplished the feat on its 25th day in theaters, whereas Nemo needed nearly nine weeks for its total
With the addition of Sunday's results, the not so jolly green giant's cumulative North American gross now stands at $353.3 million since opening on May 19--that's despite dropping to third place over the weekend behind reigning blockbuster Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and this week's sci-fi spectacular, Vin Diesel's The Chronicles of Riddick, the sequel to Pitch Black.
"To say that we are amazed and thrilled would be a huge understatement," says Jim Tharp, DreamWorks' distribution chief. "We have celebrated every record, but this latest hurdle--to become the top-grossing animated film in history--is something we hardly even imagined."
The victory is even sweeter considering the longstanding hostility between DreamWorks and Disney's respective animation divisions, which traces back to DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg's bitter exit from the Mouse House.
The original Shrek scored $267.7 million in 2001.
Shrek 2, which finds the titular ogre and his princess bride traveling to meet the in-laws to announce their storybook union, has collected several records along the way.
The G-rated CGI-flick notched the widest opening weekend (4,163 screens), biggest five-day opening ($128.5 million), the all-time single-day ticket-sales record ($44.8 million on May 22) and the biggest Memorial Day weekend ($95.6 million from Friday to Monday).
"This movie is a phenomenon," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations. "It's just a movie that appeals to everyone much like Titanic, but Shrek 2 covers an even broader audience. It's basically for everybody. And it was brilliantly marketed."
Basking in Shrek 2's green glow, DreamWorks already has two more sequels in development. The studio is in talks with Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy about reprising their voice roles along with Antonio Banderas, who steals the spotlight in Shrek 2 as famed ogre killer Puss-in-Boots.
If Shrek 2 continues at its current pace, the fractured fable will pass Jurassic Park's $357 million for number eight on the all-time domestic box-office list and is easily within reach of $400 million, which could place it in the top five.
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