Saturday, December 06, 2008

Wallace and Gromit Resurface

After the divorce with DreamWorks, not much was heard from the pair. Now that's changed.

One of the highlights of the BBC's Christmas TV schedule will be A Matter of Loaf and Death, a new Wallace & Gromit film. This will mark the duo's return to the small screen ...

DreamWorks ... terminated its relationship with Aardman, Park's Bristol-based film production company ... in 2007 after the disappointing box-office performance of Flushed Away (2006) ... Aardman subsequently signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, claiming it intended to double its feature output to one film every 18 months – but so far there's no sign of anything in the pipeline ...

Aardman has been pretty inactive since parting company with DreamWorks. A Matter of Loaf and Death is its first major production since Flushed Away ...

It's nice to see Aardman out with product again. The more animated work being done the better, as far as I'm concerned. Now let's see them kick up their feature releases.

"One every 18 months"? It sounds good to me.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

More accurately: Aardman terminated their relationship with Dreamworks, not the other way around.

Nick Park found out that no matter how much he poured into his films, Katzenberg will change them into his own and that didn't sit well with Mr Park.

nd it shouldn't. He has FOUR Academy Awards. Enough to build a table and much more than Jeffrey Katzenberg or anyone working for him.

Anonymous said...

Once again the truth according to Robiscus.....sheesh

Anonymous said...

More like, the truth according to IMDB.

Anonymous said...

Uh, IMDB for "truth"? I have a friend who has a couple of feature directing credits, (that aren't his), because of a misplaced vowel. The truth is out there, just gonna have to look a little harder...like having a conversation with a real person.

Anonymous said...

Iyt's gotta be true--he read it on the internet!! And the interent would never lie to Robiscus...and those beautiful models in Sweden really do want to make love to him...

Anonymous said...

"I have a friend who has a couple of feature directing credits, (that aren't his), because of a misplaced vowel"


Oh gosh, tell me more! You must rub elbows with the true movers and shakers of Hollywood! We're all so lucky to have you posting Mr. Anonymous!

Please grace us with more of your savory insider anecdotes! Please!!

Anonymous said...

So it's that easy to be a "mover and shaker"? Just know someone with a clerical error on a website and I'm a player? I thought this was a blog for people in or interested in the entertainment business. Struck some kind of nerve, there:)

Wow. I will try to know less in the future...sorry. Hey, how about "Lost"?! Really cool, huh?

Anonymous said...

" A Matter of Loaf and Death is its first major production since Flushed Away ..."
they did produced a few TV series as Shaun the sheep , Creature comfort and Chop Socky Chooks ;and a rather nice short movie "The Pearce Sisters"; that's not being inactive to my point of view ...

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