Focus Features and LAIKA Now Filming ‘ParaNorman,’ With Voices of Casey Affleck, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Anna Kendrick

Posted on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 by Russ Fischer

In 2009 Focus Features and LAIKA released Coraline, the great stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s kids’ book of the same name. Now the companies are teaming again for two more stop-motion 3D films. The first is ParaNorman, which will be released on August 17, 2012. The second is an unnamed project that will be released in 2014.

The voice cast and plot for ParaNorman were sent out today via press release; check the details below. Read More »

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Oscar-Winning Former Pixar Writer/Director Teams With Black List Screenwriter for Laika’s Little White Lie

Posted on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

Ever since Laika Entertainment released the stop-motion aniamted 3D adaptation of Coraline, everyone has been wondering what the studio might be up to next. Coraline director Henry Selick‘s departure from the company, made a lot of animation fans uneasy about the Portland-based stop-motion animation studio’s future. Laika also recently cut their computer animation division (128 employees), deciding to focus strictly on stop-motion animation for future projects. We now have some new information about a new project in development by a Oscar-winning former Pixar writer/director, details after the jump.

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