Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

Although the Falles is a very traditional event and many participants dress in medieval clothing, the ninots for 2005 included such modern characters as Shrek and George W. Bush, and the 2012 Falles included characters like Barack Obama and Lady Gaga.

This type of stylistic anachronism is often used in children's movies, such as Shrek and Hoodwinked, for satirical effect.

Captain Hook is a minor character in the film Shrek 2, playing " a little drop of poison " by Tom Waits on the piano in the " Poisoned Apple " tavern.

The square is the prime location in London for world leading film premières and has seen blockbusters including Harry Potter and James Bond film series, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and animation films such as Shrek ; and co-hosts the London Film Festival each year.

* Christopher Sieber two-time Tony Award nominated actor ( Spamalot and Shrek the Musical ) is a 1988 graduate of Forest Lake High School.

Simple Simon is a character in Shrek 2.

This depiction, along with a seemingly transgendered bartender ( who the crew deny on the DVD commentary as having any sort of gender confusion ) and Pinocchio's expansive nose in Shrek 2, raised the ire of some groups who objected to the film's sexual content, in what is billed as a children's film.

In the fighting game Shrek SuperSlam, released 2005, Big Bad Wolf is a playable character and appears as " Huff n Puff Wolf ".

The most well-known example is the animated feature film Shrek, whose name comes from the German, but whose localized subtitle translates back into " The Foolhardy Hero ".

* Gingy ( 2001 ) is a talking gingerbread man character in the Shrek series of movies.

In Shrek 2, the fairy godmother turns out to be a conniving, crooked businesswoman ( with a personality rather like that of the Stepmother in Cinderella ), who is quite willing to resort to blackmail and / or murder to further her own interests.

As of 2012, the official site of Vanguard Animation is stating that Conrad Vernon, the director of Shrek 2 and Monsters vs. Aliens, will direct the film.

The character of Prince Charming is deconstructed in the 2004 movie Shrek 2 and its 2007 follow-up Shrek the Third, wherein he has an undesirable and boorish personality unfitting for a fairy-tale prince.

He is the secondary antagonist in Shrek 2 and the main antagonist in Shrek the Third.

He is best known for his roles as Kevin Burke in Two of a Kind starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen and Lord Farquaad in Shrek the Musical.

Andrew Ralph Adamson, MNZM ( born 1 December 1966 ) is a New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter based mainly in Los Angeles, where he made the blockbuster animation films, Shrek and Shrek 2 for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

He is also good friends with fellow film composers and musicians Martin Tillman, Heitor Pereira, Klaus Badelt, John Powell ( with whom he collaborated to compose the scores to Antz, Chicken Run, and Shrek ), along with his musical assistants David Buckley, Stephen Barton, Welsh band Hybrid and producers and film directors Andrew Adamson and Tony Scott.

Various cartoons from Bugs Bunny to Shrek have spoofed famous fairy tales, knowing that everybody is familiar with the original stories and will immediately laugh at every deviation.

It includes the single " All Star ", which reached number four on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and was also featured on the soundtrack to the movie Shrek ( the song is played during the film's opening credits ).

In Poland and nearby countries, he is probably best known for the part of Max in Juliusz Machulski's 1984 dystopian cult comedy ( one of the most popular Polish movies ), and – to a younger audience – for lending his voice to the talking donkey in the dubbed Polish version of the Shrek trilogy.

Examples of these films include Being John Malkovich, The Princess Bride, Night at the Museum, Groundhog Day, Click and Shrek.

In Shrek Forever After, they are at the ogre triplets ' birthday party, and eat the occasion cake.

Banderas with Melanie Griffith at the Shrek Forever After premiere.

When Best Animated Feature debuted, Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc., Jimmy Neutron and Goddard from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Shrek and Donkey from Shrek appeared at the Academy Awards.

The production closed on January 8, 2011, to be replaced at the theatre by the original London production of Shrek the Musical.

Based on the commercial success of Pixar's computer-generated animated films and other CGI fare ( especially Dreamworks ' Shrek, which contained numerous jabs at Katzenberg's former workplace and boss ), Disney came to believe that CGI was what the public wanted — so it ceased producing traditional two-dimensional animation after Home on the Range, and switched exclusively to CGI starting with 2005's Chicken Little.

Another attraction, " Rugrats Magic Adventure ", was present at the opening of the area in 2001, but closed in 2002 to make way for Shrek 4-D.

* Tweedledum and Tweedledee appear in the West End's Shrek the Musical, playing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Griffith with Antonio Banderas at the Shrek Forever After premiere ( 2010 )

The film opened at # 4 at the U. S. Box office making $ 10. 9 million USD in its opening weekend behind Troy, The Day After Tomorrow and Shrek 2.

" appeared on the Shrek soundtrack and received minor radio airplay, peaking at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100.

After Shrek saved Fiona from marrying Lord Farquaad and Dragon swallowed the evil fiend, Donkey sang " I'm a Believer " at Shrek and Fiona's wedding reception and takes his love, Dragon, as his wife.

After which Shrek and everyone else stares at Donkey as it is strongly hinted that he has one, but Donkey remains clueless as to the reason of why everyone's staring at him ).

After the duo worked together with their mission to stop her plans to force Fiona to engage with her son, Prince Charming, both return to their normal forms, though Donkey seemed to be quite disappointed at returning to his original form although Shrek told Donkey he still sees Donkey as a noble steed.

When Far Far Away is in need of a new king, Donkey ventures off with Shrek in search of Fiona's cousin Arthur Pendragon, known simply as Artie at the Worcestershire boarding school where he resides.

Additional videos featuring the Rally Monkey show her edited into popular films and TV shows such as Gilligan's Island, Shrek, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Brady Bunch Movie, Signs, Jurassic Park, The Price is Right, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Scream, Dumb and Dumber, National Lampoon's Vacation, Night at the Museum, The Natural, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Spaceballs, Poltergeist, Borat, The Sandlot, Psycho, Jaws and The Ring.

Ignoring warnings of a secret possessed by Fiona, Farquaad proceeds with his plan and decides to search for the woman so he may marry her and become a king, though she is soon encountered by Donkey and Shrek, and at first the group holds hateful feelings towards one another.

Shrek and Donkey walk in at the end, astounded by what they have seen.

The Academy Awards, or Oscars, which are the oldest awards given to achievements in film, included the Best Animated Feature category for the first time for the 2001 film year ( with the first winner being Shrek ).

Shrek established Dreamworks as Disney's first major competitor in feature-film animation.

The three contenders for first honoree in this award were both CGI feature films: Shrek, by Dreamworks, Monsters, Inc., by Disney and Pixar, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, by Nickelodeon and Paramount.

Eels appear on several film soundtracks, including Scream 2, American Beauty, Road Trip, Holes, The Anniversary Party, Knocked Up, Yes Man, The End of Violence, Hellboy II, Hot Fuzz, The Big White, and the first three Shrek movies.

His first five computer-animated movie appearances included Antz, The Nuttiest Nutcracker, Shrek, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.

It was nominated for the very first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek.

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek, released by Dreamworks.

Adamson directed Shrek ( the first in the series ) with a moderate budget of US $ 60 million in 2001.

The next film in the series Shrek 2 ( 2004 ) had a big Hollywood budget of around $ 150 million and was even a bigger success than the first film taking in more than $ 900 million worldwide.

Next year Shrek was released and went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Release of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale also made DWA the first studio to produce two CG animated features in a single year.

The first is Shrek 4-D which takes guests on a journey that occurs between the first and second Shrek films.

Donkey is enjoying fatherhood in Shrek the Third, and he is still first and foremost Shrek's sidekick and closest friend.

In Rumplestiltskin's alternate reality, Donkey first meets Shrek when he pulled a wagon the ogre was imprisoned in, forced to sing ( reminiscent of a car stereo ) by the witches, who whip him to change songs.

At first, Donkey fears Shrek and runs away, but returns after seeing Shrek crying over his babies ' toy.

PDI won their first Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film for Shrek in 2002.