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DreamWorks registers domains for something called Shrek’s Thrilling Tales

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

While DreamWorks Animation may have no plans for a fifth Shrek film, it does appear to have something in store for the fairy tale ogre, according to several new domain registrations that center around: Shrek’s Thrilling Tales.

On March 19, DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. registered ShreksThrillingTales.com, ShreksThrillingTales.net, ShreksThrillingTales.org, ShreksThrillingTales.co.uk, as well as the dot-info and dot-biz.

I won’t bother speculating on the company’s plans for the names, because the possibilities are endless — a film, a theme park ride, a spin-off, a video game, a musical?

No official announcement has been made by DreamWorks nor do any of the domain names resolve to a web page at the time of this story.

[Update 1 on March 23, 2012, 5:10am Est:. DreamWorks has registered more Shrek-related domain names.  On March 21, it registered the following names: ShrekFairyTaleKingdom.com (Whois) and ShreksFairyTaleKingdom.com (Whois).  Other domain buys on the same day included: ChunkytheDeathcat.com (Whois), ChunkytheDeathcat.net and ChunkytheDeathcat.info.]

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Is the Dreamworks Animation film ‘Rise of the Guardians’ getting a new title?

Rise of the Guardians: Jack Frost

It appears DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians set to release in November 2012 may be getting a new name – one that more highlights the film’s lead character ‘Jack Frost’ played by Chris Pine.

Formerly titled The Guardians of Childhood, then changed to Rise of the Guardians, in the past week DreamWorks Animation has registered well over a dozen domain names that hint at the name change like dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.com, jackfrost.info, riseoftheguardians-jack.com and many more.

Here’s a look at several of the domain names acquired this week by DreamWorks Animation:

dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jack.biz
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jack.com
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jack.info
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jack.net
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.biz
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.com
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.info
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.net
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jack.org
dreamworksriseoftheguardians-jackfrost.org
jackfrost.info
riseoftheguardians-jack.biz
riseoftheguardians-jack.com
riseoftheguardians-jack.info
riseoftheguardians-jack.net
riseoftheguardians-jackfrost.biz
riseoftheguardians-jackfrost.com
riseoftheguardians-jackfrost.info
riseoftheguardians-jackfrost.net
riseoftheguardians-jack.org
riseoftheguardians-jackfrost.org

According to the press release issued last January by DreamWorks, the epic 3D adventure will also star Alec Baldwin as North (Santa Claus), Hugh Jackman as Bunnymund (Easter Bunny), Isla Fisher as Tooth (Tooth Fairy) and Jude Law as Pitch (The Boogeyman).

[Updated on November 22, 2011 at 4:35am EST:  Looks like the domain names have nothing to do with the film title. DreamWorks Animation registered several more names with characters from the film in the domain like riseoftheguardians-sandman.biz, riseoftheguardians-bunnymund.biz, and riseoftheguardians-north.org]

(Photo of Jack Frost via Rise of the Guardians official Facebook page)

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DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3 gets a name: Europe’s Most Wanted

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

It appears Madagascar 3, which is due out in 2012, has a name.

According to several domain name registrations by DreamWorks that included Madagascar3Europesmostwanted.com and EuropesMostWanted.org, the third installment of Madagascar will be called Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.

On September 9, DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. purchased the following names for the animated film.

europesmostwanted.biz
europesmostwanted.info
europesmostwanted.org
madagascar3europesmostwanted.biz
madagascar3europesmostwanted.com
madagascar3europesmostwanted.info
madagascar3europesmostwanted.org
madagascareuropesmostwanted.biz
madagascareuropesmostwanted.com
madagascareuropesmostwanted.info
madagascareuropesmostwanted.org
madagascarthreeeuropesmostwanted.biz
madagascarthreeeuropesmostwanted.com
madagascarthreeeuropesmostwanted.info
madagascarthreeeuropesmostwanted.org

DreamWorks also registered a slew of other names for its upcoming “Penguins of Madagascar” movie and names for characters.  

That bunch included:

penguinsofmadagascar-thefilm.com
penguinsofmadagascar-thefilm.net
penguinsofmadagascar-themovie.com
penguinsofmadagascar-themovie.net
penguinsofmadagascarmovie.com
penguinsofmadagascarmovie.net
penguinsofmadagascarthemovie.com
penguinsofmadagascarthemovie.net
penguionsofmadagascarthefilm.com
penguionsofmadagascarthefilm.net
turbo-chet.com
turbo-chet.net
turbo-guygagne.com
turbo-whiteshadow.com
turbo-whiteshadow.net

[Updated December 8, 2011: DreamWorks Animation revealed the teaser trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, set to be released on June 8.]

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