Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the upcoming 2024 British stop motion animated comedy film produced by Aardman Animations and directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, featuring Park’s characters from the Wallace & Gromit series is scheduled for Christmas Day on BBC One as part of their annual Christmas Day/Boxing Day telly brilliance.
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Aardman Animations latest stop-motion adventure comedy, Early Man, hit U.S. theaters last week. Directed by 4-time Academy Award and 5-time BAFTA award winner Nick Park, the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, Early Man follows a tribe of primitive Stone Age valley-dwellers who have to defend their land from bronze-using invaders in an association football match. The voice […]
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Peter Sallis, best known for his role as mild-mannered Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and also as the voice of Wallace in Wallace and Gromit died Friday, 2 June at the age of 96 at Denville Hall (a retirement home for actors) in Northwood, a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, his agent […]
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At long last, Shaun the Sheep is set to return to the big screen in the not-too-distant future. Long-time fans will no doubt remember when Shaun first came on the scene with an appearance in the Wallace and Gromit Oscar-winning short film by Nick Park, A Close Shave, in 1995. From that brief appearance, Shaun got his […]
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It’s been a long journey to the big screen for Shaun the Sheep ever since he made his debut in the 1995 Aardman short, A Close Shave. Watching that or any one of a number of Wallace and Gromit features, have you ever wondered just what goes into the making of an Aardman movie? If you were one of those […]
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Reason #(pick a number) as to why I continue to tout the brilliant output from the UK whether it be the large or small screen. Today’s reason has to do with the large screen and the forthcoming project from Aardman Animations, creators of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. Next up from Aardman is Shaun the […]
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While the sight of giant Gromit statues might be a bit unnerving to some, folks in and around Bristol woke up Monday morning surrounded by 80 giant Gromit statues strategically placed around the city and they seemed to be ok with it. Most everyone, that is. From the ‘Department of Is Nothing Sacred’, it seems […]
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Lots to follow-up on with respect to recent posts, comments from the tellyspotting mailbag, rumors swirling around on the Internets and questions from the voices in my head these days. While this might not be the equivalent of Anything You Ever Wanted to Know, hopefully, it will be close to a This May Be All […]
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Head’s up. Halloween’s over so all attention is now focused on the Christmas holiday season. Beginning today, 2 November, Royal Mail and Aardman Animations, headed by W&G creator, Nick Park, have softened the blow a bit by creating this year’s holiday stamp offering from Royal Mail. In typical Aardman style, each stamp was meticulously crafted […]
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Ok, it’s only :40 but, still, it’s new Wallace & Gromit, which is always a good thing. Seems as though England is pulling out all the stops in trying to secure the country as host for the 2018 World Cup. It’s classic already for the simple reason it comes from the folks at Aardman Animations, […]
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