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Shaun the Sheep creators say AI won’t replace storytelling as their no-dialogue, Halloween-flavored stop-motion film Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom opens in UK cinemas; the project sticks to handcrafted animation with a star voice cast, while acknowledging AI/CGI tools but insisting they won’t replace the craft. The film will later stream on Sky Cinema and NOW TV as part of Aardman’s 50th-anniversary year.
A roundup of upcoming releases and entertainment news: Practical Magic 2 trailer reveals the Owens curse extending to a new generation as Sally heads to England; Sense And Sensibility gets a grounded, lived-in adaptation with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles; Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom promises Halloween hijinks; Pixar's Toy Story 5 live-action idea elicits a firm 'hard no' from producers.
At Annecy, Aardman marked its 50th anniversary by announcing Lets Go Timmy!, a Mossy Bottom-set BBC stop-motion/2D series for Timmy and his friends, pitched as 30 five-minute episodes following Mossy Bottom School misadventures; the event also teased Shaun the Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom’s mid-September cinematic release and other projects like Danger Delilah and Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu, with a masterclass where Lord, Sproxton, Park and Cox reflected on Aardman’s origins and creative process.
Shaun the Sheep, the popular animated movie character, has returned to Britain after being a passenger in the capsule that was blasted into orbit by NASA's Artemis I rocket. The 16cm-tall stop-motion model earned his astronaut wings as the mascot on the mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA's tie-up with Aardman began with publicity around the studio's release of a Shaun the Sheep sci-fi movie, Farmageddon, in 2019.