It was a somewhat unexpected move, as 20th Century Fox has been doing pretty well with Blue Sky Studios, the production house behind the insanely successful Ice Age series.

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In 2006, a woman in Chaddesden, Derbyshire reported a lump of ice about the size of three bags of sugar fell from the sky and narrowly missed her car.

BBC: Falling ice chunk smashes into Derbyshire house