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Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit
Tiger4 writes "Aardman Animation and Dreamworks are splitting their relationship. Apparently Dreamworks feels they lost money on 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit' and 'Flushed Away.' So off to their separate ways they go. Aardman is going back to stop motion and clay, Dreamworks will be staying with their CGI ways." In addition, Aardman Animation announced that a new Wallace and Gromit film is in the works.
...when winning an Oscar just isn't enough.
What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler
If "Tottie" is in the next movie, I'm getting it for sure. What a doll ;-)
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"...everybody knows Hollywood's made of cheese".
"They're crackers! We've forgotten they're crackers!"
"No more Americans -- more trouble than they're worth! I could just fancy some cheese, Gromit. What do you say? Cheddar?... All's well that ends well, that's what I say. Uhmm... I do like a bit of gorgonzola..."
"It's the wrong company Gromit. And they've gone wrong"
Plus raised eyebrows and a pained look from Gromit of course!
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Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
I wish I were that unsuccessful.
Maybe Aardman can do Cinderella 4: Citizens on Patrol.
Katzenberg just doesn't understand Park's humour at all (he spells it humor for a start), and is responsible for just about every missed note in both Chicken Run and particularly Flushed Away. It was nice to have their cash to play with, but if it means yet more painfully compromised films which make stupid decisions in a failed attempt to appeal to Americans, then good riddance.
Now Dreamworks can go back to concentrating on dire, 'hip' CG extravaganzas with all the lasting appeal of a rotten pear.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Oi! You leave Neil and Christine alone, thank-you very very much!
Saucy bugger.
whooooooooooooooosh!!!!!!!
>>Nick PArks said he had a lot of trouble keeping the British humnour
Easy solution here... Get a bunch of celebs to do a terrible dubbed version with "Americanized" jokes. Arnold Schwarzenegger an play Wallice etc... This will be a huge box office hit, and make tones of money.
They can then double the US revenue by also selling and/or screening the real version with the origial sound track.
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Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
I think that should have been "What ho, Gromit - bit of a whoosh there, eh, lad?"
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Dreamworks did Shrek, which was excellent. Shrek 2 was better and Shrek 3 is coming soon.
Personally I thought Shrek had a much funnier and coherent script than Shrek 2 which pushed the "just like our world only done with magic" joke until it became stale.
BUT I never understood why oh why was Robin Hood bloody FRENCH in Shrek!?! That's like sticking in Paul Bunyan and giving him a giant pink sheep instead of a blue ox - or having George Washington do a guest appearance speaking like Sergeant Schultz! "I did cut der Cherry tree mit meine kleine hatchet,Vater".
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You lousy foreigners! I'd get up out of my Barcalounger and pound the bejesus outta you for insulting us but I'm too tired and my ankles hurt and I'd spill my bag of Cheetos and my Coke and I'd miss the game on TV. Never mind. I'm content. I don't care about transfats, global warming, or genocide. That's all for sissy liberals. Wallace and Grommit, hah! Any Hanna-Barbara is far better.