'Missing Link' Trailer: Zach Galifianakis Is A Bigfoot Named Susan
A new Missing Link trailer finally expands the scope of the story and shows us the global adventure we'll be going on with a Bigfoot named Susan.
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Laika Announces 'Kubo And The Two Strings' With The Voice Of Matthew McConaughey
Laika has produced three gorgeous stop-motion features so far: Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. Now there's a new one coming, as the fourth Laika movie has been announced as Kubo and the Two Strings. It's an original story from Paranormal writers Marc Haimes and Chris Butler which the company describes as "a sweeping, swashbuckling adventure set in…
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Final 'ParaNorman' Trailer - Bad Omens, Strange Faces, And A Creepy Voiceover By John Goodman
Halloween's still a couple months off, but Laika's getting the spooky season started early this weekend with ParaNorman. Focus Features has just unveiled the final trailer for the 3D stop-motion animation, which features tiny bits of scenes under some unsettling percussion and an entertainingly creepy voiceover by John Goodman. Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, ParaNorman centers around…
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Set Interview: 'ParaNorman' Directors Chris Butler And Sam Fell
In February 2012, I visited the Portland-based animation studio Laika to watch the production of their newest stop-motion animated feature film ParaNorman (you can read about what I learned on set here). While on set I participated in an extensive roundtable interview with directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell about the very long process of…
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How Laika Used 3D Color Printers To Create The Stop-Motion Animated Movie 'Paranorman' And 50 Other Things We Learned On The Set
In February 2012, I visited the the Portland based animation studio Laika to watch production of their latest stop motion animated feature film ParaNorman. The 2009 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline earned the group critical and public acclaim, and many have been waiting to see what the hand-crafted independently owned production would create next. This is…
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'ParaNorman' International Trailer: Laika's Latest Continues To Look Like A Creepy Crowd-Pleaser
We've already seen a couple trailers for ParaNorman, the new film from Coraline-animating studio Laika, but I'm not going to complain about the release of one more. The film is about a boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who has to use his ability to communicate with the dead to save his town, and this new UK trailer…
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'ParaNorman' Trailer - Laika's Weird, Wonderful Follow-Up To 'Coraline'
It's a good week for fans of all-ages stop-motion animated films with a deathly twist. Just yesterday, we showed you the trailer for Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, and we now have a new trailer for ParaNorman, the upcoming feature by Coraline studio Laika. Kodi Smit-McPhee lends his voice to Norman, a misfit kid with the ability…
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'ParaNorman' UK Trailer: A Zombie Attack For The Whole Family
From the very first announcement of ParaNorman, the new family horror feature from Coraline animation studio LAIKA, the film has seemed like a promising new prospect. The story, animation with stop-motion, is about a young boy who can see the dead and must protect his town from a zombie invasion. The first teaser trailer for…
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'ParaNorman' Teaser Trailer: Laika Crafts A Weird And Super-Cute Kids' Horror Story
I'm eager to see anything that comes out of the animation house Laika. The company's last major production, Coraline, was a beautiful little film. Laika is following that with ParaNorman, a film written by Coraline storyboard supervisor Chris Butler. The film has a great voice cast -- Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road) in…
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Casting Bits: Zoe Saldana In Talks For 'Infinitely Polar Bear', Xavier Samuel And Myles Pollard Join Sam Worthington In 'Drift', Jodelle Ferland And Alex Borstein Join 'ParaNorman'
Zoe Saldana is in talks to join Mark Ruffalo in Infinitely Polar Bear, the directorial debut of screenwriter Maya Forbes. The drama follows a bipolar man (Ruffalo) and his long-suffering wife (Saldana). When the husband goes off his meds, he finds his life deteriorating along with his psychological condition. As he loses his job and…
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Focus Features And LAIKA Now Filming 'ParaNorman,' With Voices Of Casey Affleck, Kodi Smit-McPhee And Anna Kendrick
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…
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Oscar-Winning Former Pixar Writer/Director Teams With Black List Screenwriter For Laika's Little White Lie
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…
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