...are ardent Wallace & Gromit fans, and several years ago the actor had arranged a lunch with directors Nick Park and Peter Lord. ''We weren't thinking of him then,'' says Park. ''Later on, we were watching 'Maverick.' He wasn't...

...fun from start to finish, the film has been described as "The Great Escape" with feathers; it's so much more. Peter Lord and Nick Park, creators of the British "Wallace & Gromit" shorts, make the intricate, highly detailed clay animation...

...and directed by Aardman's Nick Park, the artist behind the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit series, and Peter Lord, whose earlier work has been nominated for an Oscar. As the movie opens, Ginger (Sawalha) is reprising Steve McQueen's...

...British master of clay animation and three-time Oscar-winning creator of ''Wallace and Gromit,'' and co-director Peter Lord have put chickens front and center with this gleeful parody of prison and escape movies. A delightful pageant of chicken...