Shrek 3 storms UK box office
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The third Shrek film featuring the voices of Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake goes top of the UK box office.
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LOS ANGELES  - Captain Jack Sparrow took a back seat to that odiferous green ogre internationally during the weekend as "Shrek the Third" finished No. 1 with an estimated boxoffice of $46 million from 3,693 screens in 36 markets.
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Will Ferrell's motor racing comedy takes pole position on the UK and Ireland box office chart.
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Sci-fi film Alien vs. Predator grosses $38.3m (Â£20.8m) at the US box office during its debut weekend.
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Katzenberg is taking the animation unit public in a year that has seen box office success for the studio: &quot;Shrek 2&quot; has brought in $876.
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DreamWorks, which created box office smash Shrek, raises $812m from its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The final curtain came down on the summer movie season with box office watchers on Tuesday reporting a near &#36;4 billion record haul led by sequels "Shrek 2" and "Spider-Man 2," even as admissions slipped 1.5 percent.
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Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof enters the UK box office at number six, while Run, Fatboy, Run, stays on top.
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Dreamworks Pictures has announced they will delay the release of Shrek 3 from November 2006 to May 2007. &quot;We believe there are more than a half a dozen strong release windows available annually
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Animation Happy Feet enters at number one in the UK and Ireland film chart, knocking Casino Royale to second.
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Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore's romantic comedy Music and Lyrics tops the UK box office chart.
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"Spider-Man 3" and "Shrek the Third" may have set opening day box office records this month, but Hollywood thinks the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie will steal a hefty chunk of the summer movie season's treasure.
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Buoyed by the smash box office successes of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale, DreamWorks Animation is planning to go public with a share sale which is expected to raise as much as $650m (Â£364m).
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The DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy break a UK sales record after one day of release.
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LOS ANGELES  - By the standard box  office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box  office derby with domestic ticket sales of $440 million. And  Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success,  was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic  gross to date of $119 million.
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DREAMWORKS Animation, creators of hit animation film Shrek and Shrek 2, could raise up to Â£405 million through its US stock market flotation.
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The animated film âShrek the Thirdâ helped DreamWorks quadruple third-quarter profit, as the film neared $800 million in worldwide revenue.