Chicken Run 2: When Hollywood run outta ideas. - Also, known as the only stop motion film to make a million dollars at the box office

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A Welsh Cake said:
Shaun the sheep gets quite a few royalties. You’d be surprised which corners of the world you can purchase official merch at.
I kind of wanted to see the latest Aardman film because I genuinely like the art style.

not looking forward to Chicken Run 2: The Alt-Flight.
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I did see Early Man (Missus wanted to see it...OK, I love Aardman too so I didn't mind at all). It was quite fun, but definitely more kiddy than other offerings.

They need to do something like Stagefright again. Shit's dank yo.

 
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Whatisgoingon said:
So, how is Aardman still in business? Are their movie budgets so cheap that they always make a profit or something? Because I could've sworn that other than Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and (maybe) Flushed Away, all of their movies tanked at the box office.
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They get a lot of ad/tv work, plus the Shaun the Sheep Movie made over $100 million on a $25 million budget, Early Man however flopped but that was mostly due to it being about football if I had to guess
 
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One thing I dislike about Aardman is that they've traded in their stopmotion for 3D animation, but they designed the 3D to look like their old stopmotion cartoons anyway. So what you're viewing when you watch Flushed Away is not a miracle accomplishment in stop motion, it's a Pixar movie imitating stop motion.
 
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I did see Early Man (Missus wanted to see it...OK, I love Aardman too so I didn't mind at all). It was quite fun, but definitely more kiddy than other offerings.
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I went to see Early Man with a friend, and we loved it! Being football fans helped, and I thought there was enough innuendo to tickle the grown-ups.
 
I remember watching this when I was little.

I wonder if the story is going to go dark like the original movie did when one of the chicken got its head cut off by the butcher.

But I dont see many interested in it. Maybe older fans? Kids?
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
One thing I dislike about Aardman is that they've traded in their stopmotion for 3D animation, but they designed the 3D to look like their old stopmotion cartoons anyway. So what you're viewing when you watch Flushed Away is not a miracle accomplishment in stop motion, it's a Pixar movie imitating stop motion.
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They have only done two cgi movies Flushed Away and Arthur Christmas both flopped, so pretty sure they are done with fully cgi now
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
One thing I dislike about Aardman is that they've traded in their stopmotion for 3D animation, but they designed the 3D to look like their old stopmotion cartoons anyway. So what you're viewing when you watch Flushed Away is not a miracle accomplishment in stop motion, it's a Pixar movie imitating stop motion.
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No they haven’t. Shaun the Sheep the Movie was Stop Motion, and Flushed Away was going to be Stop Motion but with all the water that would have had to be used resulted in them using 3-D animation. Pirates Band of Misfits used Stop Motion, but the water was CGI because they had the technology to do that while they couldn’t with Flushed Away.
With photoshop and movie magic, you can do lots of things that you wouldn’t do with just a camera.
 
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The only possible way I can see how this could work is if the Tweedy family can get revenge on these chickens but I don't even see how this could even work.

Especially the chickens are already on the island.
 
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I generally like the Aardman stuff.

They're creative enough that i'm sure they could think of a story.

P.S 'Pirates! In an adventure with Scientists!' Made $68 million over its budget, and I don't think that counts DVD's so they're doing ok for a smaller people. For reference, it made only 1.5 million (ish) less than Coraline.
 
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