flushed away redux

first:

Dreamworks and Aardman Part Ways
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/008918.html

then:

DreamWorks Animation's Profits Flushed Away (third item)
http://us.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-02-28

and recently:

It May Be a Royal Flush, After All
http://us.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-03-01

what, if anything does it all mean?

the situation just seems somewhat ironic, is all.

oh, and a bit of trivia about the gestation of the movie (taken from imdb.com):

According to Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman, this film's original concept involved pirates, and was pitched to Dreamworks soon after the release of Chicken Run (2000). However, Aardman were told that there was no market for pirate films (this was before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' was made), and were told to modernize the concept. By the time the writer had done this, the project was temporarily shelved to make way for the production of 'Wallace & Gromit in Curse of the Were-Rabbit'.

oh well. at any rate, i really liked this movie, never mind that it wasn't box office boffo in the states.