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Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animations, hasn't directed a feature film since he shared credit with Nick Park for Chicken Run a dozen years ago. Still, his influence can be felt throughout most everything the company has produced, as becomes...

While this whole multiple titles / different trailers thing for Aardman's latest - known as The Pirates! Band of Misfits in the US and and The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists in the UK - strikes me as unnecessary...

God bless Sony Pictures Animation. Not only did they step in to support UK animation house Aardman when their deal with Dreamworks closed but they've embraced the very silly variety of Britishness that makes Aardman Aardman in the first place,...

It's a tale of two titles for Aardman Animation's upcoming stop-motion feature film The Pirates. Here in North America we get The Pirates! Band of Misfits! In the UK however, it's The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! Because, you...

Avast! The first trailer for Aardman Animations next claymation film The Pirates! Band of Misfits has arrived. Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High...