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Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Re:I say by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quite a bit actually. Mostly just effects, but IMDB says "The movie contains a considerable amount of CGI of all kinds, from drifting fog through to the bunny rabbits in the Bun-Vac. In all, there are over 700 shots that contain some kind of digital effects work.". But spiritted away had a lot of computer generated backgrounds. This is when CGI is used properly - when you don't really notice it.

  2. Re:Smart Move? by owlnation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Toy Story was Pixar, not Dreamworks. Dreamworks did Shrek, which was excellent. Shrek 2 was better and Shrek 3 is coming soon.

    And while WereRabbit was a brilliant movie, Flushed away was really not.

  3. Re:How bad was it? by Knuckles · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly how unprofitable was it?

    Very, very unprofitable:

    Production Budget: $30,000,000
    Worldwide Gross: $185,724,838

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