Tag: Chicken Run

  • ‘The Boy And The Heron’ Will Open Animation Is Film 2023 With IMAX Screening

    ‘The Boy And The Heron’ Will Open Animation Is Film 2023 With IMAX Screening

    Animation is Film (Aif) has announced the slate of films for its upcoming 6th edition. The festival will start with an IMAX presentation of The Boy And The Heron, the latest film from legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki at the TLC Chinese Theater on October 18. The five-day event which will exhibit theatrical presentations, special events,…

  • Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Open Hollywood’s Animation Is Film Festival

    Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Open Hollywood’s Animation Is Film Festival

    Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” will open Animation Is Film on Oct. 18 at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in the festival’s first IMAX premiere, the organization announced Thursday.The Animation Is Film Festival, with Variety as one of the sponsors, will run from Oct. 18-22 in Hollywood. Sam Fell’s “Chicken Run” sequel “Chicken Run:…

  • ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ to World Premiere at BFI London Film Festival

    ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ to World Premiere at BFI London Film Festival

    Keenly anticipated sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” will have its world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival.From the Oscar and BAFTA-winning studio Aardman and Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell, the film is the sequel to “Chicken Run” (2000), the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.In the film, having pulled…

  • ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Clip: A New Adventure is Hatching

    ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Clip: A New Adventure is Hatching

    More than two decades after Chicken Run first hit theaters, grossing over $220 million at the box office and becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film ever, fans will finally get a chance to return to the farm when Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget releases onto Netflix this December. The long-awaited sequel will see the…

  • ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Finally Lands Release Date

    ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Finally Lands Release Date

    The long-awaited sequel to 2000’s Chicken Run is almost ready to hatch, as a release date for the film has now finally been confirmed. While the upcoming film’s story is to pick up right from where its predecessor left off, audiences have had to wait over twenty-three long years for the hit stop-motion feature to…

  • Julia Sawalha furious after being told she is ‘too old’ for Chicken Run sequel

    Julia Sawalha furious after being told she is ‘too old’ for Chicken Run sequel

    Actor feels ‘plucked, stuffed and roasted’ having been informed the voice of Ginger in the upcoming Chicken Run 2 will be recastJulia Sawalha has said she has been “plucked, stuffed and roasted” after being told that she would not be cast in the forthcoming sequel to the hit Aardman Animation film Chicken Run as her…

  • Kelly Asbury, Director of ‘Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron’ and ‘Shrek 2,’ Dies at 60

    Kelly Asbury, Director of ‘Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron’ and ‘Shrek 2,’ Dies at 60

    Kelly Asbury, an animator who directed Oscar-nominated films such as “Shrek 2” and “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” has died. He was 60.Asbury died Friday morning in Los Angeles following a long battle with abdominal cancer, a representative for Asbury, Nancy Newhouse Porter, told Variety.Asbury, who started his career at Walt Disney Feature Animation in…

  • Netflix secures Aardman sequel ‘Chicken Run 2’

    Netflix secures Aardman sequel ‘Chicken Run 2’

    Oscar-winning animation outfit reveals plot details on film’s 20th anniversary.Netflix has swooped on stop-motion animation sequel Chicken Run 2, which UK animation powerhouse Aardman will begin making in 2021.The streaming giant will release the film globally, excluding China, and was announced during an ’Annecy Making Of’ panel on the animation festival’s digital platform.It also marks…

  • Annecy 2020 Online’s Masterclasses and Previews, from ‘Spider-Verse’ Follow-Up to ‘Frozen 2’ Doc

    Annecy 2020 Online’s Masterclasses and Previews, from ‘Spider-Verse’ Follow-Up to ‘Frozen 2’ Doc

    Annecy 2020 Online’s second wave of special programming for its world-class French animation festival (June 15-30) will include a preview from the highly anticipated “Connected”, the latest feature from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and a Masterclass from stop-motion director Henry Selick and composer Bruno Coulais, who collaborated on Netflix’s…

  • Film Review: ‘A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’

    Film Review: ‘A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’

    No asteroids are hurtling toward Earth in “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” though a flying frozen pizza does softly slice the top off an elderly shopper’s hairdo: That’s roughly the level of quirky peril we’re talking about in the latest outing from Aardman Animations, and as usual, the British stop-motion masters cheerfully prove that…