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Theatrical Release	Genre	Rating	Worldwide Gross	Director	DVD Release
May 18, 2001	Animated	PG	$484.4 Million	Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson	Nov. 2, 2001

Shrek Earns Spot at Cannes

(April 21, 2001 - HollywoodLot.com) DreamWorks received a major boost for next month's release of its animated Shrek movie by learning that the Cannes Film Festival had accepted the movie for showing at Cannes. To receive the honor, Shrek had to be classified as a film that contributes "to the progress of the motion picture arts and to encourage the development of the film industry throughout the world" - a requirement to be shown at Cannes.

Being accepted into Cannes will generate a lot of additional publicity for Shrek because it is the first animated film since Walt Disney’s 1953 Peter Pan to be honored with a showing at Cannes.

According to the New York Times, "Shrek has been made with computer technology that is being hailed within the industry as the most advanced yet. Thousands of characters have been created with heightened realism. The film has taken more than 275 artists, computer animators, software developers and engineers almost three years to make."

DreamWorks CGI subsidiary, Pacific Data Images (PDI), animated the irreverent animated fairy tale movie, which has received rave early reviews.