You'd be forgiven for suffering from pirate fatigue after this year's lackluster fourth entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but these delightful trailers for Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits prove there's still plenty of fun to be found on the high seas. Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, the stop…
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Can you resist the grinning appeal of a new claymation animated film from Aardman Animation? I'm not certain that I can, if the first trailer for The Pirates! Band of Misfits is any indication. The film adapts Gideon Defoe‘s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists -- a loopy tale of high-seas misadventure and…
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Aardman Animation doesn't just have the CGI holiday film Arthur Christmas to release in the next year. The company also has the stop-motion The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe‘s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. The cast was announced not long ago, and is a thing of beauty:…
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Sony and Aardman Animation have teamed for a new 3D stop-motion animated film, called The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe's book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. (Which is also the film's title in the UK, I believe.) That isn't news, but the first still, above, and the announcement…
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Just when you thought there was nothing more outta-left-field this week than a Mickey Rourke rap anthem: here is the first clip from David Cross's new TV pilot, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Back in June, we first reported on Cross's hopeful series about corporate hell co-starring Spike Jonze and Will Arnett, but…
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