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Aardman, the Oscar-winning UK animation studio, has inked a deal with Chinese major Tencent that will see its Shaun The Sheep series hosted on the latter's video platform. Shaun is hosted around the world by Netflix, which isn't in China so this latest deal completes the global picture on the franchise. The Chinese…

CPH:DOX, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark's government responded to the growing spread of coronavirus by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s The Fight For Green…

UPDATED with Netflix details: Aardman Animations is cooking up a Christmas caper for Shaun the Sheep, which is set to premiere on BBC One in 2021. Netflix has also picked up the animation title in the U.S., Latin America, Spain, CIS and Greece. A Winter's Tale From Shaun the Sheep (working title) will follow Shaun as…

David Sproxton is stepping down as the managing director of Aardman, the Oscar-winning animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Sproxton, who co-founded Aardman in 1976 with Peter Lord, will be replaced by Sean Clarke, a 20-year veteran of the company, who is currently head of rights and brand…

Here’s a first teaser trailer for Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, the sequel to Aardman and Studiocanal’s 2015 box office hit which took more than $100M global. In the sequel, strange lights over the quiet town of Mossingham herald the arrival of a mystery visitor from far across the galaxy, while at nearby Mossy…

One of the most charming and downright funny animated films of the last few years, Shaun The Sheep Movie,  became a subject for discussion as part of the  Lionsgate presentation at Deadline’s big , all day awards season event , The Contenders Presented By Deadline that was held at the DGA last month in front of a sold…

Amazon said today that it has picked up to series the children’s shows Dino Dana, The Kicks and Lost In Oz and ordered a half-hour special based on the Shaun The Sheep franchise from Aardman Animations. Created and directed by J.J. Johnson, Dino Dana is a follow-up to his live-action/CGI series Dino Dan. Dino…

A total of 16 features have been submitted for consideration for this year’s Best Animated Feature Film category for the 88th Academy Awards. They range from Universal and Illumination’s $1.15B worldwide box office hit Minions and Disney/Pixar’s $840M+ grosser Inside Out to the animated charmer Shaun The…

Aardman Animation’s Shaun The Sheep sheared off $852K in 2,202 theaters in late nights that started yesterday morning, coming in a bit soft. The stop-motion clay-animated movie will expand into 2,320 theaters Friday. Aardman has a loyal fan base so this will likely be a front-loaded couple of days and may then fade…

While tomorrow will see the fan fueled debut of Aardman Animation’s Shaun the Sheep from Lionsgate, this weekend the No. 1 and 2 spots are expected to be 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four and Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. Fantastic Four is expected to gross between $40M and $50M for the…

UPDATES with video: Aardman, the great animation outfit responsible for such clever ‘toons as Chicken Run, The Pirates! and Wallace & Gromit, have done it again with Shaun The Sheep Movie, the first starring feature for the infamous character who appeared in Wallace & Gromit and had his own TV series. But nothing…

Using their woolpower, Shaun The Sheep and his flock friends are gearing up for a UK debut on February 6, 2015. Based on the popular stop-motion animated TV series that first aired on the BBC's CBBC in 2007, and which has been sold in over 170 countries, the film hails from Studiocanal and Aardman Animations (Wallace…