In the USA there is no place anymore for the Aardman series Creature Comforts. After only three episodes the show is cancelled. The new series was produced for the American audience, however the ratings weren’t good enough. And like it is so often: ratings over quality. Because of this sad decision there are still 4 non-aired episodes laying around. The creators of Creature Comforts US ask their viewers to pressure CBS to still air the remaining episodes. Below you can have a look, see what you think of it.

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After his visit to the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam Edgar Schaake from the Dutch blog Hollywood.blog has put some photos online. The exclusive look on the poster of Horton Hears a Who of course makes us very happy! You can also see the beautiful stage of The Simpsons Movie on this Expo.

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Everyone that buys the Ratatouille videogame gets a closer look at the new Pixar movie Wall-E. Luckilly JV from JV Pixar News captured the clip so we can also enjoy it.

“Wall-E is a product of the buy n large coorporation, all rights reserved. Wall-E is not designed to function under water, in lunar gravity or in active lava flows. For a demonstration of Wall-e’s many other functions please visit any buynlarge showroom or voice command your hollowscreen to www.buynlarge.com.”

Sadly this site doesn’t work. The domaine is registered by the company Tucows. They will probably jump for joy when they ‘ll soon receive all this extra publicity!

Update: Apparently Tucows is the registration company that registered the domain for Disney. So Disney is the domainname holder for www.buynlarge.com

Antonio Banderas has given some details about the spin-off involving his character in Shrek: Puss in Boots. The title of the animation movie will become Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer and the story will take us back in history (just like Shrek4). We will discover more about the past of Puss and how he became such a charming tomcat. After reading the script, Banderas says it will be an emotional and funny movie which will definitely appeal to the audience. The Spanish actor will be doing the voices of both Puss as his brother’s. The movie is planned for 2010.

On youtube you can find a short clip of Emile from Ratatouille who is doing some athletics.

Emile astonishes the viewers with his magic tricks.

A new trailer for ”The Simpsons Movie” is released. President Schwarzenegger, Spiderpig and Ralphie who sing the 20th Century Fox tune: I’m already looking forward to the end of July…

I didn’t notice it until now, but there are 3 movies of which 2 competing animation movies that use the same music in their trailer.  Bee Movie, Wall-E and Michael Moore’s Sicko all use the same song! I think it’s a variation of that famous Brazilian samba song which you can listen to here. If anybody knows the specifics of the song, you are very welcome to share the information.

• Throughout the complete trailer of Bee Movie
• At the end of Wall-E
• A bit after the beginning of Sicko

Strange?

This beautiful commercial is made by Stardust Animation Studios to promote Finland’s high class coffee brand Paulig Presidentti.

Aardman Animations created for the Wildscreen Film Festival 2006 a lovely bug animation.

Monstermania! is a computer animated horror-comedy created by Uli Meyer. The project is a cooperation between the London-based Meyer Studio, Ittina Animation Studios from India and Cinecarat from Switzerland. The story is written by top writers Michael Marshall Smith and Stephen Jones.

In this mix of horror and comedy you meet Max van Helsing, a young scientist who, by the will of his deceased grandfather, leaves on an exciting and dangerous adventure. He has to travel to the country of Wallachia in the heart of Eastern Europe. Upon arrival Max comes face to face with classical monsters like Frankenstein, a bunch of werewolves and a lot more bizarre and scary creatures. Of course there is also the girl of his dreams he has to save from the hands of the greatest evil the world has ever known: Vlad or shall we call him Count Dracula.

On the Umbackagain blog from Uli Meyer himself you can follow the development of the movie. There are some good writers behind this animated feature and the mix of horror and comedy looks quite promising. Monstermania! is planned for a worldwide release in 2008. When you click further, there are some great movie posters to admire.

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Crash and Eddie from Ice Age 2 are quite a pair of stuntmen…