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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
Aardman Animation for the BBC (2010), Lionsgate (March 13 2012), single disc, 174 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $14.99 Storyboard: Nick Park’s award-winning claymation pair Wallace and Gromit return to the small screen, broadcasting from their self-built TV station and casting their eyes across the globe to discover a variety of new and amazing inventions at use in the real world… The Sweatbox Review: Immensely popular with young pre-schoolers (see spin-off Shaun The Sheep ) as well as parents and even grand and great -grand-parents, it seems creator Nick Park is just as reluctant to let his beloved and critically-acclaimed Wallace and Gromit go missing from our screens for too long as much as audiences are always pleased to see them. Theirs is a unique universal appeal, built on a classic double-act dynamic: there’s Wallace the mad inventor, all great ideas that often don’t quite work as planned, and his supposedly inferior sidekick, his dog Gromit, who continuously turns out to be the actual brains behind the operation! Their relationship has been clearly defined since Park’s initial student animation film A Grand Day Out got him noticed and a place at Britain’s answer to Pixar, Aardman Animation, where he developed two further half-hour films featuring the pair, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave , before DreamWorks came a calling
The first teaser trailer for DreamWorks’ upcoming animated adventure Rise of the Guardians has just been revealed and can be watched over at Apple . Based on “ The Guardians of Childhood ” book series by William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians tells the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost as they set out to battle an evil spirit Pitch who lays down the gauntlet to take over the world. Directed by Peter Ramsey and featuring the voices of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher and Jude Law, Rise of the Guardians opens in theatres November 21st, 2012
Anime News Network that Disney has turned to anime for their latest advertisment . A 30 second commercial for Tokyo Disney’s “Where Dreams Come True” campaign aired earlier this month. 
The LA Times has a story on animation pioneers United Productions of America and how their unique style continues to inspire animators today. Up director Pete Docter said, “Seeing the UPA films was was almost like learning a different language because their approach to movement, design and filmmaking was so graphic and so different from the Disney or Warner Bros. films
The Beatles’ 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on May 28th, according to The National Post . 
Veteran Disney animator Glen Keane is leaving the company that he’s called home for many years, THR 
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The Cat in the Hat is set to make a return to the big screen…but relax, it won’t be a sequel to the critically detested 2003 Mike Myers outing. 