Chicken Run News

2000

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Facing imminent death while laying eggs at Tweedy's English farm, a group of chickens led by the determined Ginger (Julia Sawahla, BBC-TV's ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS) plan to escape their prisonlike coop. The situation goes from bad to worse when the sinister Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) decides to stop selling eggs and use the .. Read more

Starring	Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels
Director	Peter Lord, Nick Park
Genres	Animated, Audio Descriptive, Children, Comedy

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Gibson returns for Edge
- 29 Apr 2008
Mel Gibson is to return to acting by taking his first leading role in six years, it has been reported. The Guardian says the actor and director, whose credits include the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart and Chicken Run, has signed up to play a detective in the big-screen adaptation of Edge Of Darkness. It will be his first starring role since he appeared in M Night Shyamalan's Signs and, perhaps more importantly, his 2006 arrest for drink-driving in California when he reportedly shouted a " Read more
Madagscar 2
- 01 Dec 2008
Madagscar, the first one, gets a 70 percent approval rating from more than 10,000 LOVEFiLM members. Far be it from me to disagree. It had a snappy, original concept – semi-domesticated Central Park zoo animals are marooned in the wild – a bright, glossy look, and more fun characters than it knew what to do with. This being a Dreamworks Animation production, the sequel was inevitable. The challenge for screenwriter Etan Cohen, therefore, was to come up with a decent excuse to... Read more
Wallace and Gromit return with Sony
- 03 Apr 2007
Aardman, the company behind animated comedies such as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run, have signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures, it has emerged. The deal could please fans of the clay-mation movies, as Aardman recently parted ways with previous associate DreamWorks, possibly reducing the chances of a new project about the hapless inventor and his canine sidekick. Sony Pictures has ensured it gets first pick of Aardman's projects until 2010 - and,... Read more
New Mel Gibson project nears release
- 05 Dec 2006
The new movie written and directed by Mel Gibson is set to open next weekend in the US and critics believe Apocalypto may not be affected by recent controversy surrounding the star. Gibson was recently arrested for drink-driving, but Nikki Finke of L.A Weekly said that fans of his previous project, The Passion of the Christ, would "reward him with their movie-going loyalty," reports Studio Briefing. Apocalypto tells the story of the Maya kingdom's impending decline and the human... Read more
Rat race
- 09 Dec 2004
Kate Winslet, star of Titanic and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has been confirmed as the voice of the lead character in Aardman Animation's new feature film, Flushed Away. The Oscar-nominated English actress will star opposite Aussie Hugh Jackman, famous for his steely appearance as Wolverine in Brian Singer's X-Men franchise, in the imaginative film that tells the tale of a family of sewer rats. Due to the ambitious scale of the latest offering from the Bristol-based studio,... Read more