Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 stop-motion-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations. United International Pictures distributed the film in the United Kingdom, and it is the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures in the United States, when the studio would spin off as an independent studio until being acquired by Universal Pictures in 2016. It was directed by Nick Park and Steve Box (in Box's feature directorial debut) as the second feature-length film by Aardman, after Chicken Run (2000). The film premiered in Sydney, Australia on September 4, 2005, before being released in cinemas in the United States on 7 October 2005 and in the United Kingdom a week later on October 14, 2005.