ANNECY: A sequel to stop-motion favourite “Chicken Run” will be released by Netflix this Christmas, nearly a quarter-century after the original, it was announced at the Annecy animation festival in France.
Netflix’s new movie release calendar for kids is now loaded with Chicken Run 2, a new SpongeBob SquarePants movie, Adam Sandler’s Lou, Nimona, and a new Ultraman movie. Here are first looks.
Wallace & Gromit are getting a new adventure at Netflix and the BBC. The Chicken Run sequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, also gets a new cast and a 2023 release window.
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Why did Netflix cross the road? To get to the Chicken Run sequel more than two decades in the making! Officially titled Dawn of the Nugget, the long-awaited stop-motion follow-up (co-produced with Aardman Animations) will peck its way onto the subscription streaming platform sometime in 2023. Production is currently underway, with director Sam Fell (Flushed Away, ParaNorman) at the helm.
The creators behind the new Netflix Aardman Christmas special weigh in on why it looks different from Wallace and Gromit and working in needle felt. Robin Robin stars Richard E. Grant, Gillian Anderson, and Bronte Carmichael. It is out on Netflix now.
Every year,
Annie Awards does what the Golden Globes, the Oscars, and all the other big awarding bodies cannot: properly celebrate the best of animation. And this year, the ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual animation awards did their job right, doling out the most nominations to two of the best movies of the year: Pixar’s singular
Soul and Cartoon Saloon’s hand-drawn masterpiece
Wolfwalkers. But which one will deservedly walk away with the most prizes? We’ll have to find out when the 48th Annie Awards are streamed live on
April 16, 2021.
Soul and
Wolfwalkers both dominated the 2021 Annie Awards nominations, leading the pack with 10 nods each. They’re both expected to win their respective feature and best independent feature categories, but are nose-to-nose when it comes to direction, FX, character animation, character design, production design, score, storyboarding, and writing. But each has one nomination for a category the other does not —