Time to get out that giant green eraser again: Shrek 5, which already shifted its release date from July 2026 to December 2026, has made another big move. The long-awaited return to the swamp for the ogre—first voiced by Mike Myers back in 2001, with the most recent series entry arriving in 2010—will now happen June 30, 2027.
Variety notes that no reason was given for the DreamWorks and Universal production’s date change, but big movies needing more time, either for production reasons or to seize the best audience, is not unheard of. As the trade points out, the studio had a giant hit earlier this year with How to Train Your Dragon, which hit theaters in mid-June.
The late-June 2027 release date means Shrek 5 will hit theaters less than a week after another oft-delayed animated film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, which was originally set to come out all the way back in March 2024. As Variety notes, that December 2026 date Shrek 5 has now vacated was quite close to Avengers: Doomsday, so there’s cinematic competition no matter what.
Not much is known about the plot of Shrek 5, but Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy (who’s been talking up his Donkey spin-off movie) will be back, and Zendaya—speaking of Spider-Man—is a high-profile new addition to the cast. She’ll be playing Shrek’s daughter, Princess Felicia.
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