Production Weekly Twittered this week about a new movie called Villain, describing it as:

In Richard Warren Stern's "Villain," a supervillain finds his most diabolical inventions have been stolen and used to terrorize the globe.

I wonder if this film will actually make a meaningful distinction between terrorists and supervillains, since it's hard to see a real difference most of the time. But perhaps it's another villain who steps to the plate, and not really a terrorist at all. Which sounds an awful lot like this dreadful claymation movie, the other Villain.

Here's the claymation Villain's plot:

Koil, a super villain, is caught by the police. After escaping prison, he decides to quit his villain ways and to become a normal person. Every thing seems fine, until his replacement villain is chosen and the city is in more danger than it has ever been.

I'm assuming these are two different movies called Villain, but you never know. The rumor boards say the claymation Villain has been canceled due to funding (clay is expensive!), but the release date is still set to 2010.

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Meet Piella Bakewell, Wallace's new (gasp!) girlfriend. She looks sort of cute, in a bleach-blonde Marge Simpson way. And I bet she's pretty good at baking pies. Here's the plot synopsis for the new W+G, which returns to the half-hour format that launched our heroes:

Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business. The conversion of 62 West Wallaby Street is complete and impressive, the whole house is now a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms. Huge mixing bowls are all over the place and everything is covered with a layer of flour. On the roof is a ‘Wallace patent-pending’ old-fashioned windmill. The transformation is perfect.

Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have ‘disappeared’ this year – but Wallace isn’t worried. He’s too distracted and ‘dough-eyed’ in love with local beauty and bread enthusiast, Piella Bakewell, to be of much help.

While they enjoy being the ‘Toast of the Town’, Gromit, with his master’s life in jeopardy, must be the sleuth and solve the escalating murder mystery - in what quickly becomes a ‘Matter of Loaf and Death’.

Once again, the new Wallace and Gromit is co-written by Bob Baker, who wrote many of the weirdest Doctor Who episodes in the 1970s (and created K-9 the robot dog.) I wonder what scifi elements, besides those robot arms, we'll see this time around. Past installments have included cyber-pants, a moon rocket, a bizarre rabbit-capturing device... and the dreaded Were-Rabbit! [Wallace And Gromit, via Cinema Gaslight]

This claymation short aired in 1996 on Nickelodeon's Kablam segment (you may also remember Action League Now). All of the shorts have Prometheus teaching Bob to do the simplest things such as, dress, use the restroom, build a shelter and survive. Every episode usually ends with Prometheus getting hit in the head with something. But it's Bob's sweet nature and Prometheus' never-tiring patience (especially when Bob knocks him unconscious and he and the monkey take Prometheus' clothes) that makes these shorts truly memorable.

Check out the Prometheus and Bob fan site for all 39 episodes.