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First Images from Wallace and Gromit Short Celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee!

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Four-time Oscar winner Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, has been working alongside the National Trust to create a minute-long short film that sees the return of the beloved duo in A Jubilee Bunt-a-thon, celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer. The film will be premiering at 14 National Trust locations (listed below), along [...]




Wonderful Short from Aardman – The Pirates! in So, You Want to Become a Pirate?

The PIrates! Chat Show

Aardman are currently sailing on steady box office waters with their new film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists doing well despite The Hunger Games plundering away much of the target audience. Never content to sit on their hands Aardman have just released a new short film to complement their latest Adventure and it’s [...]




The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Review

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After making a seasonal splash with Arthur Christmas, Aardman are back in the realms of stop-animation (the first time since Wallace and Gromit’s run in with Were-Rabbit in 2005) with The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. The life of a notorious swash buckler on the high seas is a thrilling one, but amongst the [...]




Interview: Director Peter Lord Talks The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Scientists

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We’ve been smashing the coverage of the Peter Lord directed movie, The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists simply because it looks so amazing. I got to go down to Aardman Animation Studios (of which Peter is one of the founders) late last year to see what it was like and caught a glimpse of [...]




The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists Video Blog – Character Design

Pirates - Character Design

A couple of days ago, I put up the first of a series of video blogs focusing on the Production team at Aardman Animations Studios looking at their brand new feature film The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists. The previous video looked at the lip-sync or ‘track breakdown’ by Chris Stock who must be [...]




Exclusive: The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists Production Blog – The Audio Lip-Sync

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Ever wondered how the clever people at Aardman are able to lip-sync the characters so perfectly with the animation? Well, wonder no more as we’ve been this exclusive production video log which focuses on Chris Stock who is responsible ‘track breakdown’ at the studio for their new movie, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. [...]




VIDEO: Travel Behind the Scenes of Aardman’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

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Be it as a Band of Misfits, or in an Adventure with Scientists Aardan’s The Pirates! are almost at our shores and there’s a firm sense of anticipation for this film. Everything we’ve seen so far (and we’ve seen a lot) leads us to believe that not only are we in for a decent seafaring [...]




Sony Release Re-cut Trailer for Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Minus any Lepers

Pirates - Lepers

We didn’t post an article on it but a couple of weeks ago, there was a big hoo-hah from various leprosy groups including Lepra Health In Action and the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) who complained about a specific scene in Sony / Aardman’s new movie, The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists or [...]




New US Poster Released for The Pirates! Band of Misfits

The Pirates! Band of Misfits US Poster

In the UK, Sony / Aardman’s new movie is called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists yet over the pond, it has the title, The Pirates! Band of Misfits and the US Sony marketing team have released this, the fourth poster for the film which is one of my most anticipated of 2012. I [...]




The Pirates – In An Adventure with Scientists Set Visit & Behind the Scenes Video

Dressing Blood Island on the set of THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS.

I always had the idea in my head that Aardman was the British version of the Disney owned Pixar Animation Studios; the main idea being that the place is a hive of activity and now, after having the privilege of visiting both studios, I can confirm that I was 100% right! A couple of weeks [...]




Aardman’s The Pirates! gets a New US Trailer

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We’ve already had a new trailer for Pixar’s Brave today and now the mighty Aardman have unveiled another look at their forthcoming film The Pirates! Band of Misfits (or The Pirates! In an adventure with Scientists if you’re hailing from the good old U of, um, K…) and it’s just wonderful. Dave was lucky enough [...]




Win an Arthur Christmas Story Book

Arthur Christmas Book

To celebrate the release of the fantastic 3D, CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas, an Aardman production for Sony Pictures Animation released on November 11th, we are giving away 5 Arthur Christmas Story Books – just in time for Christmas!! Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa [...]




Arthur Christmas Review

Arthur Christmas

For those out there who are still mystified as to how Santa manages that seemingly superhuman feat of single-handedly delivering presents to every child on earth the night before Christmas, this new Aardman/Sony Pictures co-production offers a feasible explanation. In a position passed down through generations of Clauses, the close-to-retirement Santa (Jim Broadbent, in a [...]




Third Fantastic Theatrical UK Trailer for Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists UK Poster

After two previous cracking trailers for Aarman’s (The creators of Wallace and Gromit) new animation, Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists, they’ve released another third new trailer this morning and it’s just as good as the previous couple. The cast is rather awesome (includes Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven) while Peter Lord​ [...]