ROTTEN TOMATOES: Aardman Announces New Slate!

Aardman Announces New Slate!

by Scott Weinberg | June 19, 2007

Only a few months after severing ties with DreamWorks Animation, the mad geniuses at Aardman hooked up with Sony's animation division. And now they're announcing their next movies.

Fans of "Chicken Run," "Flushed Away" and "Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" will be pleased to hear about Aardman's newest flicks:

"The Cat Burglars" -- Described as "Wallace & Gromit" meets "Ocean's 11" AND as "family-friendly Tarantino," this one will be about, you guessed it, a team of feline felons. (And clay-mated, not CG animated.)

"Pirates" -- Aardman co-founder Peter Lord will helm this action comedy about ... pirates! (Based on the series of stories by Gideon Defoe.)

"Operation Rudolph" -- From one of the "Borat" screenwriters ... I'll let Variety describe this one: "The Christmas movie shows the North Pole operation as an exhilarating ultra-high-tech military procedure on a massive scale, revealing how Santa and his huge army of combat elves get around the whole world in one night." Sounds cool.

Alas, Aardman presently has no plans to deliver a "W & G" sequel. These new ones sound pretty cool though.

Source: Variety

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Thundaar writes:
on Jun 19 2007 06:28 AM

more wallace and gromit please.

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IMAmoose24 writes:
on Jun 19 2007 07:44 AM

In reply to this comment (#870073)
Yes, Please.

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empoor writes:
on Jun 19 2007 08:27 AM

Sweet release slate.. Hope it will work out with Sony..

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Mr. Kong writes:
on Jun 19 2007 11:39 AM

I'll see "The Cat Burglars", the rest I find to be meh.

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Ryan_Dillon writes:
on Jun 19 2007 12:38 PM

[b]THE RETURN OF CLAY![/b]
I hope all of them are in clay, im sick of cgi

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bookworm1994 writes:
on Jun 19 2007 03:35 PM

Halellujah

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Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Jun 19 2007 08:35 PM

[b]Elves with Uzis...[/b]
On the rampage at a mall near you the day after Thanksgiving.

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