Aardman vs Dreamworks
Sources/References
Katzenberg vs Disney
Coping With Tragedy : Disney President’s Death Leaves Huge Void at Company (LA Time - 1994)ANTZ VS. BUGS (BusinessWeek/archive.org - 1998)The Epic Disney Blow-Up of 1994: Eisner, Katzenberg and Ovitz 20 Years Later (The Hollywood Reporter - 2014)
The Aardman Deal
D’Works’ feat of clay (Variety - 1997)DW-Aardman pact drawn (Variety - 1999)DreamWorks, British Studio to Develop 4 More Films (LA Times - 1999)DreamWorks fries up Aardman’s ‘Chicken’ (Variety - 1997)Gromit, help! Claymation heroes dumped (The Guardian - 2007)Gromit Films Axed (The Mirror - 2007)
Chicken Run
Nellypodging Californians really give a cluck (Variety - 2000)Original "British Slang" newspaper extract found in LA Times Sun, Jun 11 2000. Extract taken from Newspapers.com
'No one in the U.S. would understand it': Inside the making of Chicken Run (Entertainment Weekly - 2019)No Place for the Chicken-Hearted (LA Times - 2000)Run, Chicken Run! (Time - 2000)Chicken Run: A Culture Clash of Two Companies (Den Of Geek - 2018)
Wallace & Gromit
Box Office History for DreamWorks Animation Movies (The Numbers)Lock up your vegetables! (The Guardian - 2005)Wallace & Gromit jump into movies (Entertainment Weekly - 2005)This is one of the sources suggesting the recasting of Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace. However, in Peter Sallis’s own autobiography he doesn’t once mention any attempt at a recasting.
Nick Park Interview (BBC - 2005)In reference to the prior point about recasting Peter Sallis, Nick Park suggests Jeffrey Katzenberg would not have wanted to replace his voice. So from this statement, I conclude that the suggestion to replace Sallis did not come from Katzenberg himself.“Well, when we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, there were people who suggested that we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out. I think Jeffrey would agree that anybody who did that would be shooting themselves in the foot. Since then we've had so much response from Americans that like the voices.”
The art of Aardman: why Wallace never learns and Gromit never needs to speak (The Guardian - 2017)How ‘Wallace And Gromit’ Became One Of The Most Lovable Cartoons Of All Time (Junkee - 2017)Halloween Movie Guide 2016 (Daily Kos - 2016)
Flushed Away
DreamWorks Reports Loss on `Flushed Away' Writedown (Update5) (Bloomberg/archive.org - 2007)Flushed Away (Entertainment Weekly - 2006)Digital pic shows Aardman fingerprints (Variety - 2006)From Clay to Computer (Time - 2006)First look at Aardman's rat movie (BBC - 2006)
Aardman After Dreamworks
EXCL: Lord and Baynham on The Pirates! and Arthur Christmas (ComingSoon - 2011)DreamWorks and Aardman Are in for a 'Crood Awakening' (Dreamworks/archive.org - 2005)Wallace and Gromit return to TV (BBC - 2007)How America Almost Ruined Aardman Animation (Sluurp)Wallace & Gromit star in ACMI's behind-the-scenes look at the world of Aardman (The Sydney Morning Herald - 2017)There’s no talking in Shaun so we work harder to tell the stories with the physical performances (Daily Express/pressreader - 2020)