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How Shrek saved DreamWorks

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It turns out Smash Mouth and relentless fart jokes are a completely viable corporate financial strategy. DreamWorks was bleeding millions and on the verge of total collapse when they released their cynical anti-Disney fairy tale. The movie was so massively successful it basically funded the studio's entire existence for the next two decades.

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