Archive for the 'News' Category

A Grand Day Out to help needy children

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Today, April 23rd, Wallace and Gromit are hopping in a Ford Transit and attending the London Marathon in an effort to help raise money for needy children.

Helping their marathon effort is the fact that the new Transit is only an inflatable replica of the one that will be unveiled for the first time at the [...]

Real Were-Rabbit?

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Articles have been floating around about a giant rabbit in the UK ravaging gardens.
Four gardeners described the rabbit as having one ear larger than the other.
The main clues are oversized paw prints and sightings of what growers claim to be a cross between a hare and a rabbit.
BBC.co.uk - Hunt for real life ‘were-rabbit’
That’s [...]

To be honored by statue? And another award

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

After the win at the Academy Awards this year for Best Animated Feature, the residents of Bristol, England began to clamor about having some sort of monument put in place to honor the plasticine duo.
Call for Wallace and Gromit statue
“A campaign to erect a statue of Wallace and Gromit - the animated stars of Oscar-winning [...]

Oscar Award Winning Details

Monday, March 6th, 2006

On the tail of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’s win in the “Outstanding British Film of the Year” category at the BAFTA awards, Wallace and Gromit make another victory, this time in the US with the winning of an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature! The 3rd award for Wallace and Gromit, [...]

Annie Awards, Oscar Nomination & US DVD Release Today!

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

First off, on January 31st the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it’s nominees for the Academy awards. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was on the long list for “Best animated feature film of the year” and it now joins Howl’s Moving Castle and Tim Burton\u2019s Corpse Bride on the [...]

‘Fleeced’ & BAFTA nomination (and a sweater!)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

In the first bit of news, this week at the London Toy Fair Nick Park was there to present his new game Fleeced

There are a few covers floating around the internet, Daniel Brett pointed me to this one at forbiddenplanet.co.uk which also includes some details of the game. We should know more when more photos [...]

Real DVD Cover, Region 2 release date, awards, and more!

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Daniel Brett emailed me this week, at first I believed the alternate DVD cover that he found being for the UK dvd.

The amazon.co.uk page that this image came from also has a release date for the Region 2 (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including Egypt) listed: February 20, 2006.
Another interesting thing I [...]

DVD Cover, making top 10 lists and cheese

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

There has been some speculation recently as to the actual DVD cover for the upcoming dvd. Daniel Brett dropped me an email on December 23rd linking to this article which has a possible DVD cover. He’s seen this cover in a few places, so perhaps it’s the UK version’s cover?
Amazon has updated their website with [...]

DVD release date!

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

This is just a quick update to let everyone know there is now a US release date for the DVD! Feburary 7th 2006! The official site, wandg.com does not yet give any details of the DVD, but this article has a little information.
I am not sure if the UK release date will be the same.
I [...]

Cause of Warehouse fire Discovered and LAFCA Award

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

First off, the news from Aardman is that the fire that destroyed all most props from all the old films back in October was caused by “faulty wiring.”
They believe a faulty CCTV system or water heater was to blame for the fire which destroyed the entire collection of Wallace and Gromit props and models.

The two-month [...]