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Sony partners with U.K. toon team.
Just two months after ending its deal with DreamWorks Animation, Aardman Features, the British toon studio behind "Wallace & Gromit" and "Chicken Run," has signed a three-year first-look deal with Sony Pictures.
DreamWorks pulled out of its five-picture deal with Aardman in January following a hugely disappointing performance for last fall's "Flushed Away," a CG toon the two co-produced. Jeffrey Katzenbergled studio had to take a writedown on the pic, which cost more than $130 million and grossed only $179 million worldwide.
DreamWorks also took a writedown on 2005's "Wallace & Gromit: Curse of Were-Rabbit" after grossing just $56 million in the U.S., ...
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