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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
I was delighted to learn today that Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit gained a total of 15 Nominations for the upcoming Annie Awards, presented by the International Animated Film Society. Britain’s Aardman Animations has taken a commanding lead for the upcoming Annie Awards, winning 15 nominations for its latest Wallace & Gromit […]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
The big news this week is that Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is one of the 10 films on the list for an Oscar nomination for best animated film. It’s got some intense competition to win, but I am confident it’ll make the cut for a nomination. Nominations will be announced January […]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit topped the UK boxoffice charts for 3 weeks in a row (BBC article here). Can they do it again? We’ll see! I spent some time today updating a few sections of the site. I added several pictures to the main Wallace and Gromit Movie Pictures Page. And […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
In honor of the film release this year I carved my pumpkin as Gromit! Started off with just a sketch copied from an old Wallace and Gromit calendar I have. Gromit pumpkin after a few cuts Nearly finished Posing in my Princess Leia halloween costume next to the completed Gromit Pumpkin
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