Common Shuffles Shrek and the Minions Round for Its 2026 Plans

It wasn’t that way back DreamWorks revealed the Shrek franchise was making a comeback with a brand new film. For these excited to chill with him, Fiona, and Donkey, you’ll have to attend a bit longer.

On Friday, Common introduced it had pushed Shrek 5 again from its unique July 1, 2026 slot to December 23 that very same 12 months. Minions 3 now has Shrek’s unique spot; Illumination’s threequel was introduced final 12 months with an meant launch of June 30, 2027. And the place Minions as soon as was, a presently untitled film from Illumination has now planted a flag on that June 2027 date after beforehand being locked in for that March.

The studio didn’t say why it pushed the films ahead (or again), but it surely finally ends up working in Shrek and Minions‘ favor. The Despicable Me franchise tends to do fairly effectively through the Independence Day season, and children’ motion pictures have been proven to have fairly sturdy vacation legs.

Each Shrek 5 and Minions 3 are being headed up by longtime veterans from their respective franchises. Shrek 2 co-director Conrad Vernon and Walt Dohrn, artist-story head on Shrek 4, are helming the brand new movie, which brings again the sequence’ voice trio of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy. Puss in Boots 2’s ending Antonio Banderas’ swashbuckling feline might also come again, but it surely’s presently unclear how or if he’ll be featured on this movie. In the meantime, Minions 3 will probably be directed by Peter Coffin, who directed the primary three Despicable Me movies (and voices the chittering yellow beasts), and written by Brian Lynch, who penned the unique 2015 spinoff film.

So, to recap: Minions 3 on July 1, 2026, Shrek 5 on December 23, 2026, and an unknown Illumination film on June 30, 2027. And simply earlier than Minions is the subsequent Tremendous Mario on April 3, 2026.

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