Aardman signs deal with Sony

In an interview with ScreenDaily Aardman head, Stephen Moore, said, "Aardman wants to make more movies, and different kinds of animated movies and build out the infrastructure to do that. We want to make those movies in the UK if possible, in Bristol. And we want to attract talent from across the world and also build the UK animation business."

Michael Lynton, Sony CEO, said, "Aardman Features is enormously popular all over the world. We believe that their strength is their unique storytelling humour, sensibility and style and we plan to bring their distinctive animated voice to theaters for a long time to come. This is a tremendous coup for Sony Pictures Entertainment."

Aardman has five films in development including three stop-frame animation projects and two CG-animated projects. They hope to have at least one of them green-lit this year and work towards releasing a new film every 18 months.

So does it mean that there will be a new Wallace & Gromit in the works? Creator Nick Park said, "What I'm writing may not be a feature, it could make a better short, but it's too early to say". And we don’t have to worry about Wallace & Gromit undergoing any facelifts to CG. "I'm a Plasticene man".