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The Return of Wallace and Gromit
blamanj writes "Aardman Studios have release the first peek (Quicktime) at the new Wallace & Gromit film, Curse of the Wererabbit. Currently scheduled for an October release, the slightly-less-than dynamic duo will be putting their talents to work chasing a were-rabbit that threatens the town's vegetables. Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter supply lead vocals. Character creator Nick Park co-directs his story."
I thought for a mo that they were taking over for the venerable Peter Sallis, the familiar voice of Wallace. I don't need shocks like that!
your's truly will provide the voice of gromit
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I watched the trailer earlier this morning and the movie looks very promising. The subject of the movie is sort of hidden within the trailer, but if you look at all the working titles from different countries it will probably give you a better idea of what the movie will be about.
According to my old AQFL story and Dark Horizons, there was a WMV trailer on Screen Rant but the Web site seems to be down. You can look at Google's cached Web page. And here is the original Web site that hosted it (still works for now).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Check out the link for the full trailer. http://212.100.255.23/media/video/Wallace_and_Grom it_Trailer_330k.wmv
http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m480.mov
_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m320.mov
_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m240.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace
http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace
is here: http://www.wallaceandgromit.co.uk/. I saw all of this a few weeks ago, due to someone from Aardman being on our New Media mailing list, he likes to try things out on us :)
Claymation is trademarked by Will Vinton, at
www.vinton.com. Sadly, he seems to have abandoned
the "clay" part of it, after being a pioneer in it.
Bunnicula was a vampire rabbit, silly. They're after a were-rabbit.
Bunnicula drained vegetable of their color, he didn't really eat them!
Thinkin' Lincoln - a web comic of presidential proportions
"Dancing Queen" it were...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Here. This is the film trailer, rather than the sneek peek. Looks awesome!
That sounds like Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions. The shorts were shown in the US on Atom films in a low resolution format. If you lived in the UK you could get it on a very nice DVD which they refused to ship to the US. (You had to have a friend cross-ship it for you.)
A great series of shorts. The theme got to be a bit much after the 5th or 6th time, however...
There was also a Wallace and Gromit videogame for the PS2. That was available in the US. Fun, but the controls took a bit to get used to. Quite true to the series and saw the return of the evil penguin from "The Wrong Trousers".
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
You're right, it's a joke you didn't get. Prefect is not a misspelling of Perfect. It's a car:
http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/1257/
When he arrived on the planet some fifteen years ago, the minimal research he had done suggested to him that the name 'Ford Prefect' would be nicely inconspicuous.
If you ever meet someone named Dodge Caravan, be very suspicious.