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Box Office Wrapup: Shrek Inherits Box Office Crown

by Gitesh Pandya | May 20, 2007

Summary

Movie fans came out in droves this weekend to see their favorite green ogre's newest adventure as "Shrek the Third" easily captured the box office crown and broke the record for the biggest opening ever for an animated film. Back to Article

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lamer writes:
on May 20 2007 09:34 PM

*Yawn*

No surprise. Seriously.

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TheIceGhost writes:
on May 20 2007 09:42 PM

It really is sad when 122 million for a movie doesn't seem like that big of a deal. A few years ago numbers like that would have astounded people. And the movie industry is scared of losing money from pirating....HAH!

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Erroneous! writes:
on May 20 2007 09:44 PM

Has anyone or RT posted this yet?

http://www.ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com/

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Boss Fan writes:
on May 20 2007 10:24 PM

In reply to this comment (#866056)
Is it for real? Or some youtube-type creation?

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Rock_The_Luau writes:
on May 20 2007 10:58 PM

In reply to this comment (#866056)
Something tells me that it's not for real.

But, one must be allowed to dream, right?...

And is it just me, or was that pretty f**ked up? Sweet Chirst, I wish I looked at that link not at midnight...

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Merlin235 writes:
on May 21 2007 06:42 AM

It's a real link.

But as for the boxoffice, I personally would expect a major drop second weekend for Shrek 3. Not only is Pirates coming out, but word of mouth is worse for this film than for Spidey 3. I'd say a 70% drop is likely. If not more. But I like guessing that stuff. The stuidos are interesting to me. They'd rather get a massive opening then a smaller opening while creating this 'must see' buzz. I'd think they'd rather have that, since it would give a picture more legs, theoretically

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on May 21 2007 08:29 AM

Shrek 3 was pretty good if you like Shrek, the worst of the three though, it was basicly the better Shrek version of Happily N'ever After which I had watched two days before, so that kinda sucked that I watched them so close together. Delta Farce was horrible.

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SplendidIsolation writes:
on May 21 2007 10:49 AM

Well, looks like people do want to see Once.

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puablo writes:
on May 21 2007 12:51 PM

Hot Fuzz > Shrek 3 > Spiderman 3. 'Nuff said.

Man I hope Pirates is good.

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dagreenman18 writes:
on May 21 2007 03:28 PM

Shrek 3 could have been so much better. before we started seeing trailers and just got plot details and voice acting lists, i though it was going to be excellent. then as we started to see more of it i realized that this isn't gonna end well, and i was right. i just hate the fact that good movies are ignored and shitty ones make $150 million in the first weekend.

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screwhead100 writes:
on May 21 2007 10:08 PM

[b]to puablo[/b]
i hope pirates is good as well.........thats the first movie im really lookin forward to seein this summer.........

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jeanpaul writes:
on May 22 2007 08:16 AM

[b]HERE IT BEGINS.[/b]
LAUGH OUT LOUD, because here it is where it all begins.

I really liked Spidey 3, and feel that it is only very slightly less-good than Spidey 2, but a great Spidey-film, and a great fantastic closure to Sam Raimi's orignal Spidey-trilogy (I hear a new trilogy is planned...)

By the end of the summer, All the narcisistic idiots who were BASHING Spiderman 3,
will have no option but to admit that
SPIDERMAN 3 WAS THE BEST SUMMER FLICK OF 2007.

This will undoubtable happen, as "Shrek three" is already showing!!

When "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" will SUCK worse than POTC2...
(it already shows all the tendancies of being overcrowded and more confused, and CGI laden than number two...)
and Harry Potter will show Harry is TOO OLD to excite or move audiences any more...
(still compared to the BAD POTC3, Harry might get a few good reviews...)
"Transformers", I still believe is the ONLY Summer film of 2007 which is going to be as good (or maybe even better) than Spidey 3.
John Mclane is also (always) lovable, and I hope that "Die Hard 4.0" is great and entertaining. But only TRANSFORMERS and DIE HARD 4, are going to be as good and entertaining as Spidey 3.

All the other sequels are going to be ULTRA CRAP.

But remember this: ALL the unimaginative, lazy, naysaying Spiderman 3 bashers will confess--- after watching the other summer-flicks (they were so sure would be great) out there-- that SPIDERMAN 3--- was indeed the BEST in the BUNCH.

Me myself, am going to buy Spidey3 DVD first-in-line when it comes out.
Naysayers can go right ahead a bury thier pessimistic heads in the sand.

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mr.terrific writes:
on May 22 2007 01:17 PM

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i agree with you about everything you said. by the end of all this, spidey 3 will be the best of the bunch, dissapointment or not. peter travers from rolling stone said it best when he said some thing along the lines of: although it may have been flawed at the end of the summer people will realize that it was the only blockbuster made with human hands and passion. i have been hearing pirates 3 is absolutely terrible. we shall see friday. spider-man 3 was not terrible, just too sappy for a lot of the male audience. end of story.

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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on May 22 2007 02:22 PM

Yeah, I've been saying ^that all along. You may think Spider-Man 3 was a letdown to the franchise, but with these terrible summer blockbusters coming out weekly, it's easily still going to be the best summer movie this summer.

Shrek 3 was decent. As an independent film I'd have liked it a lot more, but since the last two were excellent, I did feel keenly let down by this one. Too much in it and no focus on any particular character. Could've used a lot more time or a lot less stuffing.

Pirates 3 will be absolutely horrendous because it will be guilty of the same thing Shrek 3 is now: overstuffing and undercharacterization. And sorry-looking CGI, but at least Shrek 3 was decent at that.

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