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Article: Aardman deal flushed.(Aardman Animations)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 31, 2007
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After a critically lauded but commercially troubled six-year partnership with DreamWorks Animation, Aardman is back on its own.
The British claymation giant, best known for its signature Wallace and Gromit characters and 2000 hit "Chicken Run;" officially terminated its five-picture deal with DreamWorks on Tuesday.
Move was widely expected after the financial failures of "Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and "Flushed Away" (Daily Variety, Nov. 13). The former was a claymation pic made by Aardman and distribbed by DWA, the latter a CGI collaboration between the two companies.
Aardman is back in development on several films inhouse. ...