Major Aardman Retrospective Opens in Paris
The forty-three-year-old British animation studio is being honored with a major exhibit in Paris.
The forty-three-year-old British animation studio is being honored with a major exhibit in Paris.
The massive success of this non-Hollywood family film has its producers thinking franchise.
“The LEGO Movie,” directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, picked up the feature film prize at the BAFTA Children’s Awards.
Just when you thought Netflix was gobbling up all of the high quality kids programming, Amazon Prime Instant Video announces a licensing agreement with Aardman Animations for online streaming in the United States.
Starting out as a side character in the Wallace and Gromit short “A Close Shave” (1995), Shaun the Sheep became an unlikely franchise star. After getting his own line of merchandise and a spin-off television series (which was popular enough to spawn its own spin-off, “Timmy Time”) Shaun is set to become the subject of Aardman’s next feature in spring 2015. The film currently doesn’t appear to have a U.S. distributor.
The biennial British Animation Awards have announced their slate of nominees for 2014.