{"id":741324,"date":"2026-06-17T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:20:09","slug":"shrek-fans-given-new-look-at-upcoming-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741324\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek fans given new look at upcoming film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shrek is returning to the big screen after 17 years, with Mike Myers back as the big green ogre, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/cameron-diaz-benji-madden-welcome-third-child-son-reveal-name-details-20260505-p5ztqq.html\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Diaz<\/a> as Fiona.<\/p>\n<p>The characters look a little different this time around, more realistic due to advances in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\">AI technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/tom-holland-officially-confirms-he-and-zendaya-are-married-after-months-of-rumours-20260617-p607go.html\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zendaya<\/a> also joins the cast as one of Shrek and Fiona\u2019s triplets, Felicia, with Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez and Skyler Gisondo rounding out the trio as Fergus and Farkle.<\/p>\n<p>Shrek 5 hits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/movies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\">cinemas<\/a> in June next year and you can check the new trailer out in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Zendaya, she also stars in Christopher Nolan\u2019s historical epic, The Odyssey.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still a month away from its big screen release, but the blockbuster is already setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/movies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\">box office<\/a> records.<\/p>\n<p>The film sold 28,000 tickets in the first 24 hours on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/uk\/9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-fvxqME DoUJp\">Britain\u2019s<\/a> biggest Imax screen, more than doubling previous records set by Dune: Part II\u2026 which also starred Zendaya funnily enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Anne Hathaway\u2026 what a cast.<\/p>\n<p>It hits cinemas on July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shrek is returning to the big screen after 17 years, with Mike Myers back as the big green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-741324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}