Shrek 5 Delay Pushes Theatrical Release Date to Summer 2027

Universal and DreamWorks Animation person announced a hold for Shrek 5, pushing its merchandise day to June 30, 2027.

The companies announced the docket displacement today, confirming the long-awaited phantasy follow-up volition yet measurement retired of the swamp successful astir 2 much years (via Variety). It’s a six-month hold from the antecedently announced December 23, 2026, merchandise day and astir 1 twelvemonth removed from the archetypal July 1, 2026, premiere plan.

DreamWorks and Universal refrained from sharing the crushed down their determination to propulsion Shrek 5 to its caller June 2027 merchandise date. The alteration besides comes with a caller day for an Untitled Illumination Event Film, which is moving up from Shrek 5’s precocious June spot to April 16, 2027.

Shrek 5 was formally announced with a summertime 2026 merchandise day past year. Its uncover promised the archetypal mainline Shrek introduction since 2010’s Shrek Forever After but kept communicative details nether wraps arsenic DreamWorks and Universal plotted however to bring Mike Myers’ iconic greenish ogre backmost to the large screen. Outside of the occasional Puss successful Boots spinoff, it’s been 15 years since audiences past saw Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona successful their ain movie.

We’ve since learned a fewer details astir however Shrek 5 volition shingle up the tongue-in-cheek fairy communicative beingness it primitively introduced successful 2001. Earlier this year, DreamWorks and Universal announced that Spider-Man and Dune seasoned Zendaya had joined the film’s formed arsenic Shrek and Fiona’s daughter, with Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz each back, too. A 30-second Shrek 5 trailer released successful March revealed its caller fresh creation style, arsenic good arsenic a sneak peek astatine Zendaya’s character.

The agelong hold for Shrek 5 volition proceed for a fewer much years earlier it yet stomps its mode into theaters June 30, 2027. While we wait, beryllium definite to work up connected however the net – and Sonic the Hedgehog – reacted to Shrek’s updated animation style.

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