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Or maybe it’s that animation franchises should stop at the word trilogy. _Shrek Forever After_, the DreamWorks 3-D cartoon that sends the Mike Myers-voiced ogre into an alternate nightmare reality in the fashion of Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey in _It’s a Wonderful Life_, finished first this weekend with $71.3 million at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. That sounds like a nice fat number for a May movie; it’s the third best opening of the year so far, behind _Iron Man 2_, with $128.1 million, and _Alice in Wonderland_, $116.1 million. The new _Shrek_ also beat the opening weekends for recent DreamWorks hits like _Kung Fu Panda_ ($60.2 million), _Madagascar 2_ ($63.1 million) and _Monsters vs Aliens_ ($59.3 million). Pats on all appropriate backs. Except for the expectations. Many B.O. swamis had _Forever After_ earning more than $100 million in its first three days. Instead, it will finish the weekend 50% below 2004’s _Shrek 2_ ($108 million) and a cavernous 69% below _Shrek the Third_ in 2007 ($121.6 million). That’s bad news for DreamWorks Animation, whose stock dropped 10% when its previous feature, _How to Train Your Dragon_, opened soft in March. (It’s done just swell since.) “Wall Street won’t be happy on Monday,” wrote Daniel Frankel on the industry website [The Wrap](https://www.thewrap.com/), “given that one analyst report last week already dropped DreamWorks stock another 4 percent based on mere forecasts that _Shrek 4_ might open in the $90 million range.” [(See the 100 best movies of all time.)](https://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/) The disappointing debut could be a warning that the fourth time’s not the charm for a movie franchise; take note, Jerry Bruckheimer & Co., now preparing another _Pirates of the Caribbean_ for next summer. The only exception that leaps to mind: a series of films that tells a single story, like the Harry Potter opus — or (we’ll see) _The Twilight Saga_. Mind you, _Shrek Forever After_ did gangbusters compared to _MacGruber_, an extension of the recurring _Saturday Night Live_ sketch starring Will Forte as a MacGyver-style hero who manages to explode everything he’s trying to save. Those skits seemed labored at four minutes, yet the inside touts at [Movieweb](https://www.movieweb.com/) had predicted a $19.5 million weekend for _MacGruber_. The movie blew itself up, limping to just $4.1 million. Its instant-flop status should spare us from any feature films based on Kristen Wiig characters. Finally, an Indian film broke into the top 10\. _Kites_, the U.S.-shot romantic melodrama starring Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan, earned $1 million at 208 theaters, most of them serving the Desi diaspora. Namaste to that. Here are the Sunday estimates of the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Shrek Forever After_, $71.25 million, first weekend 2\. _Iron Man 2_, $26.6 million; $251.2 million, third week 3\. _Robin Hood_, $18.7 million; $66.1 million, second week 4\. _Letters to Juliet_, $9.1 million; $27.4 million, second week 5\. _Just Wright_, $4.2 million; $14.6 million, second week 6\. _MacGruber_, $4.1 million, first weekend 7\. _Date Night_, $2.8 million; $90.7 million, seventh week 8\. _A Nightmare on Elm Street_, $2.3 million; $59.9 million, fourth week 9\. _How to Train Your Dragon_, $1.85 million; $201.9 million, ninth week 10\. _Kites_, $1 million, first weekend [See the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1984685,00.html) [See the pictures of the week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910882/box-office-weekend-a-shrug-for-shrek-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910882/box-office-weekend-a-shrug-for-shrek-4/"},"headline":"Box Office Weekend: A Shrug for Shrek 4","datePublished":"2010-05-23T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:15:37.651Z","description":"Suddenly, with the fourth Shrek movie, 3-D is so 2-D. 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