I opened my inbox this morning to find it overflowing with articles about the latest WnG movie news: It’ll be showing at the Toronto International Film Festival next month! The cheese-loving Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit will have their first, full-length feature film debut at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Nick […]
First off, I ran into a very interesting article this morning about WnG, it gets into detail about Nick Park’s association with Hollywood, some of the history of his work and Aardman and more, a great read. Check it out here: Ay up, chuck If you haven’t been to wandg.com recently, it’s time to drop […]
Aardman revealed the first 15 minutes of the upcoming film to reporters on August 5th! Reports so far have been overwhelmingly positive, and it’s believed that they will have no trouble pulling off the feature film with the same wonder and charm as the shorts! DreamWorks chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said he was amazed as […]
June Toy emailed me yesterday to let me know that she just purchased a couple of Wesco products. Yes, they’re being sold now! You can check out their e-brocure by downloading it from here. It’s an .exe file, which will run in Windows and under wine in Linux, not sure about OSX compatibility. Enjoy!
Konami announced on the 20th that they would be the publishers of the Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit video game. Developed by Frontier, this game is set for an October release. Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit will follow the events of the movie, in which the scatterbrained tinkerer Wallace and his […]
As I mentioned in a post on July 2nd, there will be a new DVD release of the shorts, as well as the first release of Cracking Contraptions on region 1 DVD. Now we have cover art! Universal has kindly sent over official artwork for Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures, which includes Wallace […]
I posted a few weeks ago that they would be having a preview of the WnG video game at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF). Now they’ve released the schedule for game screenings. Friday 12th August 5.00pm – PREMIERE – Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Presented by David Braben, Frontier […]
I kept checking back at spawn.com for pictures of the new toys, and this morning Steven dropped me an email letting me know that the images of the new toys were up! Check out the Wallace and Gromit Action Figures and Wallace and Gromit 3-Inch PVC Figures– Complete with larger images (Final Painted Sculpt Photos) […]
This interview is a couple months old (from May 6th 2005), but it’s still interesting. The most interesting bit to me was: SHELDRAKE: So is Gromit EVER going to speak? NICK: Apparently he was dubbed in Finland. We had to get them to take it off. He speaks with his eyes, with his eyebrows. He […]
Great news for those of us in the US, there will finally be a DVD release of Cracking Contraptions! Due for a September 20th release, the DVD will contain all three short movies, plus Cracking Contraptions and Special Features which will include: Never-Before-Seen Cracking Contraptions shorts and Theatrical Movie Sneak Peek and More! -source: AnimatedBliss.com […]