Aardman’s ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ to World Premiere at 2024 AFI FEST

Aardman’s four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated director Merlin Crossingham will world premiere Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl at AFI FEST, it was announced today.

In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again.

The family-friendly film will screen in the afternoon on October 27, the Closing Day of the festival, at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre as part of the Red Carpet Premieres section. The film will be coming to Netflix (excluding the UK) this winter.

“We are delighted that our film will have its world premiere at AFI FEST in LA’s iconic Chinese Theatre,” said the film’s directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. “Years in the making, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is an epic adventure that brings together everything people love most about Aardman, from stop motion craft, to character and story, and we can’t wait for audiences to see what antics our favourite duo have been up to!”

Hannah Minghella, Netflix Head of Feature Animation and Family Film, said, “I’m thrilled that Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will have its world premiere at the esteemed AFI FEST, where we previously premiered Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio in the U.S. We know audiences and fans will be excited to see what directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham have in store for the next grand adventure of Aardman’s beloved and award-winning duo.”

As previously announced, the World Premiere of the documentary film Music by John Williams will open the 38th edition of the film festival on Wednesday, October 23, and the World Premiere of Robert Zemeckis’ Here will be the Centerpiece Screening.

AFI FEST 2024 presented by Canva will take place October 23–27. The full festival lineup will be unveiled on October 1.

• Author
• Recent Posts

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• 2026 Critics Choice Awards Land Early January 2026 Date - April 25, 2025
• Adam Sandler in ‘Happy Gilmore 2,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Double Tyler Perry Headed to Netflix This Summer - April 25, 2025
• 2025 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations: ‘Death Becomes Her’ Leads with 12 - April 25, 2025