We've seen a couple teaser trailers for the Aardman Animation holiday film Arthur Christmas, and now, two full-length trailers are out. The UK trailer still shows a lot of the elements we've seen before -- the North Pole as a high-tech gift processing center; Santa's sleigh as UFO; and the geeky younger member of Santa's…
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New animation from Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit) is like a gift, so the company is (appropriately) making a Christmas film called, er, Arthur Christmas. We've seen one brief, cheeky teaser trailer, and now there is a second just as cheeky teaser to put you in mind of the November release. It's good stuff; check…
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Aardman Animation is moving into 3D CGI holiday fare with Arthur Christmas, which stars James McAvoy as the title character in a story "which at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath…
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In addition to working on new Wallace & Gromit shorts, the great Aardman Animation studio has a couple other projects in the pipeline. One is a stop-motion film called Pirates!, of which we've heard little since the film was announced in April '09. Also announced in spring of last year was Arthur Christmas, a CGI…
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The hook here, I suppose, is that after a string of photos taken by photographers outside the production, we've now got the first 'official' look at Russell Brand and Helen Mirren in the remake of Arthur. Brand plays the Dudley Moore role -- a rich, spoiled drunk -- and Mirren takes over for John Gielgud…
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Roger Friedman is reporting a rumour that the team remaking Arthur are keen to bag Meryl Streep for a role. The part in question would be the do-over's equivalent of the valet played by John Gielgud in the original and despite the sex change, they'd still be using the name Hobson for the character, at least…
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Don't count Aardman Animations out just yet. The Academy Award-winning British animation studio is probably best known for their stop-animation and claymation productions, particularly those featuring Wallace & Gromit. The studio most recently produced a series of features, including their first computer animated film, for DreamWorks Animation, but "creative differences" lead to a seperation. Aardman…
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The screenwriter for the Russell Brand remake of Arthur has been announced in Variety, and it's Peter from Balham - sometime collaborator of Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen and Lee and Herring. Peter Baynham isn't exactly comedy royalty in the UK - more like a secret power behind the thrones - but is, not to…
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Along with several other nail trends, you'll likely want to consider another trend for the fall: the cherry mocha. After all, it's the perfect moody manicure.
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