DreamWorks to make Shrek 4

(Source: www.comingsoon.net)

DreamWorks Animation announced their upcoming projects up until 2010, featuring a lot of sequels and spin-offs.

Despite teething troubles with their upcoming movie Shrek the Third (click here and here to find out more), DreamWorks will forge ahead with Shrek 4, due in 2010. The studio has also announced that the proposed Puss in Boots movie (a Shrek spinoff featuring Antonio Banderas' cavalier cat) has been upgraded from a straight-to-DVD release to a full-scale feature film.

"Puss in Boots is a unique creative property that has the potential to be a valuable extension of the Shrek franchise," claims Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation CEO. "We are excited to be developing this into a feature film where we think it has the greatest opportunity."

(Translation: "This movie will make me so much money that I can hire the Pope to drive my limo.").

Puss in Boots will come out sometime after Shrek 4, with the possibility of it getting canned if either Shrek flick bombs at the box office.

DreamWorks is also working with Nickelodeon on two animated television series. The first one will follow the penguins from their 2004 film Madagascar, while the second series will spin off from DreamWorks' upcoming Kung Fu Panda (due in 2008), which features the voices of Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

Other than the aforementioned Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks does have some non-sequel projects on the go. The first film, due in the summer of 2009, has the working title Monsters vs. Aliens (hmm, could this be a family version of Alien versus Predator? I hope not). Coming in late 2009 is How to Train Your Dragon, an adaptation of the children's novel by Cressida Cowell.

DreamWorks' last collaboration with Aardman Animation, Flushed Away, hits theatres on Friday November, 3rd. Shrek the Third will follow on May 18, 2007.

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