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Aardman and Dreamworks ending the deal
It's from Hollywood Reporter:
Ending months of industry speculation, Bristol-based Aardman Animation said Tuesday that it is formally ending its deal with DreamWorks after more than five years.
A spokesman for the British claymation specialist and home of Oscar-winning animator
Nick Park said it was "severing ties with DreamWorks."
Sources close to Aardman said the British claymation stable is putting together an alternative arrangement at another studio which will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
The parting of the clays follows disappointing boxoffice tallies for Aardman's non-model CGI creation "Flushed Away," which failed to catch on in theaters on both sides of the pond.
The five-picture deal between the companies birthed just three titles: "Chicken Run," "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and "Flushed Away."
It also famously saw the two butt heads over the script for "The Tortoise and the Hare," a 3-D claymation project.
An Aardman spokesman said the reason for severing the ties was that "the DreamWorks business model has changed" since the Bristol toon house sealed its deal with the studio.
"It (DreamWorks) is now dedicated to making two CG movies a year, and we (at Aardman) want to and will continue to make 3-D model movies," an Aardman spokesman said.
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