Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit

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Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 1, 2007 @08:11PM from the just-need-some-space dept.

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.

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Dreamworks... by VAY · 2007-02-01 20:22 · Score: 5, Funny

...when winning an Oscar just isn't enough.

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1. Re:Dreamworks... by PopeRatzo · 2007-02-01 23:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Oscars don't come with cheques
  No, but they used to come with a nice gift-bag, though.
  
  I've had it with this cheap-ass movie industry. If Dreamworks doesn't apologized to Wallace and Gromit, I'm going to strap some blinking cartoon characters around my body and go to the next Academy Awards ceremony.
  
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Lady Tottington by Circlotron · 2007-02-01 20:35 · Score: 3, Funny

If "Tottie" is in the next movie, I'm getting it for sure. What a doll ;-) http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40707000/jpg /_40707970_w3.jpg
As Wallace might've said... by clickety6 · 2007-02-01 20:42 · Score: 5, Funny

"...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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1. Re:As Wallace might've said... by elrous0 · 2007-02-02 02:56 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Why do I have a funny feeling that the head of Dreamworks bears a suspicious resemblance to a penguin in a human disguise?
  -Eric
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Re:How bad was it? by gbobeck · 2007-02-01 21:40 · Score: 5, Funny

So, lets do the math...
30,000,000
- 185,724,838
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- 155,724,838
This movie suffered a whopping $-155,724,838 loss.

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Re:How bad was it? by Sexy+Bern · 2007-02-01 21:44 · Score: 5, Funny

I wish I were that unsuccessful.
Great news. by iainl · 2007-02-01 22:09 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:Simple reason by ettlz · 2007-02-01 22:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Should I stick a Lady Hamilton joke in there?

Oi! You leave Neil and Christine alone, thank-you very very much!

Saucy bugger.
Re:How bad was it? by Linker3000 · 2007-02-02 00:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I think that should have been "What ho, Gromit - bit of a whoosh there, eh, lad?"

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