On December 10, Aardman’s iconic claymation duo arrive on holiday-worthy set: Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection (4K UHD Collector’s Edition). From the Academy Award-winning studio behind Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep, with distribution from multiplatform media company Shout! Studios, this extremely limited set features the four short Wallace & Gromit films in 4K UHD for the first time, with newly restored audio, as well as the Oscar-nominated feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit among its many bonus features. The new set marks the first time that The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has been available together with the short films.
Arriving just in time to celebrate the highly anticipated new film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (on Netflix December 25), this deluxe set is a suitcase packed with three discs, a 28-page book with a new foreword by film critic Peter Debruge, blueprints, recipes, stills and sticker clings of the Wallace & Gromit characters to decorate the inside of the set’s suitcase-style box.
Wallace and Gromit have been delighting family audiences around the world for 30 years. First hitting our screens in Nick Park’s Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989) the pair went on to star in three further half hour specials (The Wrong Trousers [1993], A Close Shave [1995] and A Matter of Loaf or Death [2009]) and a feature length film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and have won more than 100 awards at festivals around the world — including three Academy Awards and five BAFTA Awards.
A regular highlight of the primetime BBC schedules, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death remains the most-watched Christmas Day program since 2008 when it premiered on BBCOne. Most recently, the duo featured in their first augmented reality story The Big Fix Up (2021) the new feature Vengeance Most Fowl, directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, arrives in December.
Wallace & Gromit also star in a permanent attraction at Blackpool Pleasure Beach with over 500,000 riders every year, boast over 1 million fans on Facebook and over 15 million views on YouTube, as well as giving back with the Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity, a national charity raising funds to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.K., which has raised more than £50 million since 1995.
4K Collector’s Edition Bonus Features:
- NEW Restored Masters In 4K!
- NEW Restored Audio!
- Peter Lord & Nick Park Interview
- Audio Commentaries
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- “The Amazing World Of Wallace & Gromit”
- “Inside The Wrong Trousers”
- A Close Shave – How They Did It
- The Making of A Matter of Loaf and Death – How They Donut
- When Wallace Met Harvey
- Picture Gallery
- Invention Blueprints
- 28-Page Booklet
- Stickers
