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

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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 [...]

BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Sarah Smith, Writer/Director Arthur Christmas

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Next up in our Red Carpet interviews, Sarah Smith, writer/director Arthur Christmas. (see all our BAFTA coverage and other interviews here) ——————- Congratulations, it’s an astonishing achievement to be nominated against Steven Spielberg and Gore Verkinski certainly. ‘It’s hilarious that it happens to be the year that those two people made movies, but it’s hilarious [...]

Win an Arthur Christmas Story Book

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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 [...]

5 New Clips from Arthur Christmas

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Aardman Animation have put 5 new clips online for their latest film, Arthur Christmas, this week. From the studio behind Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit, Arthur Christmas tells a classic Christmas tale asking the often-wondered, never-answered question, “How does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?” The answer is found through unlikely hero, [...]

Arthur Christmas Review

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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 [...]

Eighteen Animated Features Submitted For Best Animated Film At Next Year’s Oscars

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The race for the 84th Academy Awards is on in the Animated Feature Film category, with eighteen animated features being submitted for consideration this year, Deadline report. Last year saw the largely expected victory of Toy Story 3, marking the fourth year in a row for a Disney/Pixar film to win the award, which is [...]

Another New Poster for Arthur Christmas

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Here’s another new poster for Arthur Christmas, Aardman’s movie together with Sony Animation. The movie will be with us 11th November and has a great voice cast which includes James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen and is directed by Sarah Smith. An Aardman production for Sony Pictures Animation, at [...]

Another Arthur Christmas Trailer Arrives

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Sony have released a new trailer for their forthcoming film Arthur Christmas and it’s the best look yet at what Aardman have in store for us this coming Yuletide season. The film features the voice talents of James McAvoy​, Imelda Staunton​, Jim Broadbent​, Bill Nighy​, Hugh Laurie​ and Ashley Jensen​ which is probably reason enough [...]

UK Film Distributors Unveil An Autumn Line-Up Brimming with British Films & Talent

Autumn Cinema

On Wednesday October 28th an exciting line up of films due for release this autumn was launched at a Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) event in London hosted by Alex Zane. Alex was on top form and showcased the vast line up of 125 new releases including a wide variety of British films which is expected [...]

New Trailer and Poster for Arthur Christmas Appear

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Any film which has Jim Broadbent as Father Christmas has my attention, and throw the name of Aardman Animation into the ring and there’s a ninety percent chance of heavy anticipation. Arthur Christmas is Aardman’s latest, with James McAvoy, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy and Hugh Laurie lending their voices to the production with Peter Baynham [...]

Trailer for Arthur Christmas Delivers

Sony have just sent us the trailer for their forthcoming festive film Arthur Christmas, which is an Aardman Animation featuring the voice talents of James McAvoy, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie and Ashley Jensen. Here’s the synopsis, Arthur Christmas highlights the technological advances of operations at the North Pole, revealing how Santa [...]

New Poster for Aardman’s Arthur Christmas

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We told you last week about the impressive voice cast being assembled for Aardman Animation’s latest non-Wallace & Gromit offering, Arthur Christmas. We also brought you the synopsis, namely that it is the story of Santa’s misfit son, who on hearing that one of the world’s children has been overlooked on Christmas Eve, sets off [...]

Arthur Christmas Voice Cast Revealed

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James McAvoy, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie and Ashley Jensen have been added to the voice cast of the 3D animated comedy Arthur Christmas. Produced by Aardman Animation for Sony Pictures, Arthur Christmas will be directed by Sarah Smith, from a screenplay penned by Smith and Peter Baynham. Arthur Christmas highlights the [...]