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Wallace And Gromit’s cracking news

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The clay-animation duo Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit were the stars last night at the UK premiere in London’s Odeon Leicester Square of their first big-screen adventures Wallace and Gromit, Curse Of The Were Rabbit [+see also:
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, ahead of the film’s UK opening on October 14 through UIP.

The 30fhigh inflatable Gromit that four and a half months earlier floated over the Croisette in Cannes for a publicity stunt, welcomed the star voices of the film last evening such as Peter Sallis (the hapless Wallace) and Ralph Fiennes who plays Victor Quartermaine, Wallace’s new rival as he falls in love with Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham-Carter).
The inventor writer/director of the naive Wallace and his brainy dog Gromit, Nick Park, joined the actors with the co-director of the film Steve Box and US producer Jeffrey Katzenberg from Dreamworks who co-produced the £17m (€ 25m) film with Bristol-based Aardman Studios. The first feature length adventures of Wallace and Gromit is indeed the second film of a five-picture deal that Aardman has signed with Stephen Spielberg’s US major, following Chicken Run.
Nick Park’s first Wallace & Gromit’s short film A Grand Day Out was nominated for an Oscar in 1989 and the second film The Wrong Trousers and third one A Close Shave both won Oscars in 1993 and 1995.

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In this much-awaited feature length adventures of the plasticine heroes which was in development for four years and took 18 months to shoot, Wallace and Gromit are the elite pest-control duo ‘anti-pesto’ on a mission to protect their community’s vegetables from a marauding bunny. At the Cannes Film Festival last May, Nick Park described the film as "a close encounter of the furred kind with lots of horror film references and characters!" Cracking jokes guaranteed according to film critics, kids and parents in Australia where the film had its world opening early September.

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