Shrek

Shrek
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Directed by	Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson
Written by	Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Joe Stillman Roger S. H. Schulman
Based on	Shrek! by William Steig
Produced by	Jeffrey Katzenberg Aron Warner John H. Williams
Starring	Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz John Lithgow
Narrated by	Mike Myers
Edited by	Sim Evan-Jones
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams John Powell
Production companies	DreamWorks Animation Pacific Data Images
Distributed by	DreamWorks Pictures
Release date	May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Box office	$492.5 million[1]

Shrek is an animated movie based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!. The name Shrek likely comes from the Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) or the German word Schreck, both words mean "fear" or "terror".^[2] It was directed by Andrew Adamson and animated by DreamWorks Animation. It was the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001. There have also been four sequels of Shrek, called Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, and Shrek 5.

There is also a Christmas special, a Halloween special and a spinoff movie all about a minor character in the sequels and specials. It was adapted into a Broadway musical. Shrek 2 was released in May 19, 2004. Shrek the Third was released on May 18, 2007. Shrek Forever After was released on May 21, 2010. There was also a show by the name Scary Stories released on Netflix in 2009.

1. ↑ "Shrek". Box Office Mojo.
2. ↑ "Definition of Fright", BrainyQuote, retrieved 07 May 2007