Aardman and Dreamworks split

[ichabod]

http://www.animationmagazine.net/articl ... le_id=5971

All I can say is Thank God! It's a mystery to me why the geniuses at Aardman ever got themselves tangled up with the crapfactory that is Dreamworks in the first place!

[Wonderlicious]

Whilst I don't consider Dreamworks to be abysmal, I must say that I'm happy that Aardman is splitting from them. The reason being is that Dreamworks seems to be hogging a lot of the spotlight unfairly from an established player in the world of animation that has been around longer than them. Compare this behaviour to Disney's behaviour; before Disney bought them (and from what we've seen so far, it looks like we can count "after Disney bought them" as well), Pixar were given so much credit. Press materials and publicity made it clear that Pixar made Finding Nemo etc and not WDFA. However, the poster for Flushed Away in America has a tagline saying "from the creators of Shrek and Madagascar". Dreamworks did not truly create Flushed Away. Did the poster for Toy Story say it was from the creators of The Lion King and Pocahontas? Did the poster for Finding Nemo say it was from the creators of Mulan and Beauty and the Beast? Was the tagline for Cars "the manufacturers of Chicken Little bring you an all new adventure!"?

That said, I hope Aardman find another, better distributor for their films, as until then, they may not be able to carry on mass-production. Maybe Disney could even distribute their films...

[PixarFan2006]

wow that was pretty fast. At least they can work without having bad taglines in their trailers.

[Luke]

Good for Aardman. Hope they find a better U.S. distributing partner and soon.

[Sotiris]

At one point DreamWorks wanted to buy Aardman.

Despite having made the decision to prevent the company from being swallowed up by a big studio, both the Aardman founders admitted that they hadn’t actually had all that many offers over the years.

“It’s quite insulting really!” joked Lord, who revealed that DreamWorks had made the suggestion when they were working together on Chicken Run in 2000. “But we resisted because we’re fiercely independent and still are.” Added Sproxton: “Katzenberg said, ‘Well why don’t you just sell to us?’ And we thought, ‘Well why would we?’”

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... es-1159351