![]() ![]() I went to Universal Studios Hollywood a lot when I was younger, and with Shrek being one of my favorite movies, I always asked my parents if we could watch the show. I remember some small bits and pieces of when Shrek 4-D first opened and how excited I was. ![]() They didn’t last as long as any of the other versions (Movie Park’s closing Jand Movie World’s, August 29, 2010), but it was still enough to show that the attraction was primarily a DreamWorks creation that was simply licensed to Universal for its parks. ![]() It is an extremely rare occurrence for a Universal or Disney attraction to have any kind of representation outside of their own bubbles, so I thought it was fascinating to see these versions were out there. Movie World in Australia on Septemas well as at Movie Park Germany on May 27, 2008. But Universal Studios Singapore took it one step further by creating an entire land based around Shrek, fittingly called Far, Far Away, with Shrek 4-D a part of the land, as well.īut what’s even more interesting to me is that Shrek 4-D even made its way to other non-Universal theme parks. Shrek 4-D was such an easy people-eater of an attraction that Universal Studios Japan added it, too. It was such an interesting strategy to expand the reach of the short film to those who may not have been able to go on the attraction. As far as I know, this was the first time that a theme park attraction had been commercially released on home video. It came with those fun (terrible) blue-red 3-D glasses, hitting stores around the same time as the attraction. We’ll get to the show in a minute, but in a very interesting move, Shrek 4-D was also released as Shrek 3-D as an add-on to a new DVD release of Shrek. ![]() On May 23, 2003, Shrek 4-D opened at Universal Studios Hollywood, with an opening at Universal Studios Florida less than a month later on June 12, 2003. At the time, Universal didn’t own DreamWorks, but they saw the potential of the film and began working with DreamWorks on a new attraction for their parks. Personally, I love the film and think it still holds up amazingly well today. Shrek was an instant hit, finishing the year as the second highest-grossing movie of the year domestically and fourth-highest worldwide and won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. However, DreamWorks still continues to put out quality films with Abominable and How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World both doing well last year, but DreamWorks probably wouldn’t be the major studio it is today without Shrek. You don’t see that combination very often, and I’m a bit bummed that it doesn’t look like it is going to come to fruition. For now, the film looks cancelled, but it was such an interesting idea to combine an animation-centric studio with a horror-movie production company. Thinking about Blumhouse and Universal reminded me of the proposed DreamWorks-Blumhouse film Spooky Jack. From what I’ve heard, the movie is great, so I’m excited to get to see it this weekend. Instead, we got this Blumhouse Productions version, still produced by Universal. Originally, an Invisible Man film, with Johnny Depp set to star as the titular character, was set to be a part of the Dark Universe before flop after flop grounded that expanded universe. This week, Universal Pictures is releasing The Invisible Man, a remake of the 1933 Universal Monsters film. This week, we’ll be going on a journey Far, Far Away to a land of mystical creatures. ![]()
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