June Toy dropped me an email today letting me know about the release of the movie poster, woo! Thanks June.
Now with the movie release date there will be a lot of news coming out and I might not be able to grab it all myself like I have in the past. I really appreciate June and the others who have emailed me about news, so please, if you come across anything don’t hesitate to drop me an email: lyz@princessleia.com
Taking place from 10th -14th August 2005 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) and shaping up to be one of the gaming events of the summer, EIEF will premiere ‘Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit’
Industry legend David Braben (Chairman and Founder of Frontier Developments) and Aardman Animations’ Design and Product Development Manager Rachael Carpenter will offer an insight into their unique collaboration on Frontier’s new console game ‘The Curse of The Were-Rabbit’ based on the cinematic release, out in Autumn this year. The game sees the dynamic claymation duo Wallace & Gromit pitted against the sinister Were-Rabbit and other shadowy adversaries, and allows the player to explore and interact with the locations and characters from the film. David comments “This has been a very exciting project for Frontier. Collaborating closely with the world-renowned team at Aardman, we have again worked with the two fantastic characters of Wallace & Gromit to create a game that we are all thrilled with. Edinburgh is a great platform for us to premiere the game”.
Full article: gamsindustry.bix Hooray for Holyrood!
You may remember last year, when Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Jack Black were out publicising SHARK TALE. Well, that was all down to Dreamworks, and this year the studio is going to the dogs in support of its new clay-animated film from Aardman Animation, WALLACE AND GROMIT AND THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT. We’re told that Gromit himself will be making an appearence on the beach.
Immediately following, the Cannes Film Festival’s Artistic Delegate, Thierry Frémaux, will introduce DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who will host a tribute to Aardman. An official part of the festival, the tribute will be presented at 10:30 a.m. in the Palais at the Salle Bazin, and will feature appearances by “Wallace & Gromit” creator and director Nick Park, and Aardman co-founders David Sproxton and Peter Lord.
Full article: Info on Wallace and Gromit’s appearence at Cannes
Once again June Toy has helped me find more WnG news, this time it’s an article from action-figure.com
McFarlane will be producing figures from the movie, both 6″ figures and 3-inch figure sets. Now McFarlane have released line-ups for both of these assortments.
According to the article the 6 inch figures are: Wallace 1, Wallace 2, Gromit 1, Gromit 2, Victor, Lady Tottington, PC Mackintosh, and Hutch. The 3-inch sets are: Were-Rabbit Set (Wallace, Gromit, PC Mackintosh, Were-Rabbit) and Victor Set (Wallace, Victor, Lady Tottington, Gromit, Hutch).
I followed this up by checking out spawn.com and it seems they already have pages set up for all these, even though there are no photos. And they will also be making Bean Dolls.
Wallace and Gromit Action Figures
I just came back from a short vacation, and was excited to discover that on the 28th Frontier Developments Ltd. announced plans for the development and release of a new Wallace and Gromit Game! To tie in with the movie!
Frontier Developments Ltd. (‘Frontier’), the leading independent games developer, announced today that it has been collaborating closely with Aardman Animations Ltd. (‘Aardman’) on the development of a major new console game, “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, starring the much-loved, Oscar®-winning, claymation duo Wallace & Gromit.
The multi-format game’s development has been kept under wraps for the past year and is due for release day and date, later this year, with Aardman’s hotly-anticipated forthcoming feature-length film “Curse of the Were-Rabbit”. In a unique move for both companies, the ‘Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ game has been jointly produced by Aardman and Frontier – licensing to a publisher is currently underway. –gamesindustry.biz
Check out the full article here: Frontier unveils a ‘cracking’ new Wallace and Gromit game.
You can also go to the Frontier Developments Ltd. Website and check out their page devoted to the game
According to an article on spawn.com:
Aardman has selected McFarlane Toys as the master toy partner for the upcoming family feature film “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” coming to theatres in October 2005.
McFarlane Toys will launch a limited line of toys in fall 2005, with the full product line hitting retail shelves in 2006. Under the direction of Todd McFarlane, McFarlane Toys will capture the richness and spirit of “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” characters through its magic of sculpting and attention to detail with a new line of action figures, 3-inch figure playsets and plush bean dolls.
“As a fan of Wallace and Gromit for years now, I’m happy to see these great characters get introduced to mainstream America,” said McFarlane Toys founder Todd McFarlane. “Nick Park’s creations will make fantastic toys and this will be a very fun time for us to be involved with Wallace and Gromit.”
“The choice of McFarlane as partner was an obvious one as they have synergistic values of innovation, imagination and attention to detail – all factors that play a key role in the success of Wallace & Gromit,” said Sean Clarke, Head of Marketing & Licensing at Aardman. “I am certain this will be reflected in a range of toys and gifts that truly interpret the spirit of ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’.”
Brilliant! I love McFarlane Toys! I think this is a great match.
Today I spent a bit of time getting screenshots from the “Making of” trailer and the trailer that I mentioned on the previous post. The shots are a bit small, but they look great, and get me really excited about the new movie. The pictures are located here:
Making of Trailer Pictures
Trailer One Pictures
Enjoy!
I got an email the other day from June Toy, informing me that there was an exclusive trailer up on thesun.co.uk for the new Wallace and Gromit movie!
The only way to find out what happens next is to get a sneak peek at the eagerly anticipated Wallace And Gromit movie by watching our WORLD EXCLUSIVE trailer.
The trailer is located here: World exclusive look at Wallace
You can view it in low and high quality RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. Thanks June!
Today I discovered some additions to WandG.com.
There is now an option to “Join the Gromit Fan Club” which I did!.
As well as an option to Shop! Great! The first Wallace and Gromit movie merchandise! http://shop.wandg.com
I have recently started livejournal community for Wallace and Gromit news: 
wallacegromit. My posts will be the same as the ones here, but other members are encouraged to post to the blog as well as the movie news continues to roll in! Happy blogging folks.
This morning it was brought to my attention (Thanks G.W.!) that the Wallace and Gromit movie site has been launched! You can check it out at WandG.com. The site requires Flash 7. It currently has links to the Trailers as well as a plot summary. “Downloads” and “Activities” are coming soon.
In other news, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show starts today, so keep a close watch on westminsterkennelclub.org for the latest online video additions of Gromit’s role in the show!
