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fifth best opening for an animated movie behind Shrek the Third, Toy Story 3, Shrek 2, and The Simpsons Movie. In its second weekend, Shrek Forever After dropped only 38.9%, the second smallest second-weekend drop for the franchise (behind the original Shrek which gained 0.3%) and was #1 for two weeks in a row with $43,311,063, ahead of the two highly-anticipated films Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The film then grossed $13,749,371 on Memorial Day bringing its four-day weekend total to $57,060,434. In its third weekend Shrek Forever After dropped only 41.2% and was #1 for the three weeks in a row with $25,486,465, beating out the new
releases Get Him to the Greek, Killers, Marmaduke, and Splice. Shrek Forever After came in third place to The Karate Kid and The A-Team during its fourth weekend at the box office, but it delivered a higher-grossing weekend than Shrek the Third. The movie made $15,770,491, down only 38.1%, compared to Shrek the Third's $15,317,614 and also had the franchise's smallest fourth-weekend drop.
As of July 11, 2010 Shrek Forever After has earned $233,784,897 at the domestic box office, and an additional $210,000,000 overseas giving the film a worldwide gross of $443,784,897.