Tag "Shrek Forever After"

VES Awards Nominations Announced

January 10, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

The nominations for the 9th annual Visual Effects Society Awards have been announced, with more than a few surprises. Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole were nominated for outstanding animation in an animated feature motion [...]

DreamWorks Promotes Damaschke to CCO

January 6, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

DreamWorks Animation has promoted executive Bill Damaschke to the post of chief creative officer, reports Variety. Damaschke previously was co-president of production for feature animation, and oversaw the studio’s successful 2010 releases: How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Megamind. Those films have grossed more than $1.5 billion [...]

Legend3D Gives ‘Shrek’ Films a New Dimension

January 4, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Legend3D has converted the original Shrek — as well as Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third — to stereoscopic 3D for a special Blu-ray set. The first three films in the series have been bundled with Shrek Forever After, which was made and released theatrically in 3D, for a 3D Blu-ray [...]

Songs From Eight Animated Films Make Oscar Short List

December 16, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has declared 41 songs are in contention for the Original Song Oscar, including several from animated and VFX-driven pics. Included in the list are songs from the animated features Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, Idiots and Angels, The Illusionist, Legend of [...]

‘Shrek Forever After’ Finds a Happy Home on Video

December 8, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

The big green goliath’s final adventure comes home to complete the collection of animation fans everywhere with the release of Shrek Forever After (DreamWorks, $30.99 DVD, $38.99 Blu-ray, $39.99 DVD/Blu-ray combo pack). The discs are packed full of bonus features, including Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular, Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular, Shrek’s Yule Log, [...]

Shrek Forever After Lifts DreamWorks Profits

October 27, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

The big green guy is still making big green for DreamWorks Animation. Buoyed by the success of Shrek Forever After, now the company’s highest-grossing international release, the company’s third-quarter results showed an increase of nearly 40 percent over the same quarter last year, rising from 135.4 million to 188.9 million. [...]