Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The studio is best known for its stop-motion feature films, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link. It is owned by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, part of the Portland metropolitan area. Knight's son, Travis Knight, acts as Laika's president and CEO.
Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American stop-motion animated fantasy film produced by Laika. It was directed by Travis Knight with a screenplay by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler . The voice cast includes Charlize Theron , Art Parkinson , Ralph Fiennes , Rooney Mara , George Takei and Matthew McConaughey .
Missing Link is a 2019 American stop-motion animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Chris Butler. The film is produced by Laika , and stars the voices of Hugh Jackman , Zoe Saldana , David Walliams , Stephen Fry , Matt Lucas , Timothy Olyphant , Amrita Acharia , Ching Valdes-Aran, Emma Thompson , and Zach Galifianakis .
Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated gothic dark fantasy horror film written for the screen and directed by Henry Selick, based on the 2002 novella Coraline by Neil Gaiman. [5] Produced by Laika , as the studio's first feature film, [ 6 ] it features the voices of Dakota Fanning , Teri Hatcher , Jennifer Saunders , Dawn French ...
It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for Laika surpassing 2009's Coraline ($16.8 million), [21] and the second-biggest for a stop-motion animation film behind Laika's 2005 co-production, Corpse Bride ($19.1 million). [22] In other territories, The Boxtrolls earned $5.1 million from 1,806 screens in 16 countries in its opening weekend.
Fumi Kitahara, a respected publicity executive who guided award-winning campaigns for studios including DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Netflix and Disney, died Monday of complications related to a ...
After the Other Mother releases Coraline from the mirror, Coraline proposes a game in which she must find the ghost children’s souls and her parents, which are hidden throughout the Other World. If Coraline wins, she, her parents and the ghost children may go free. If not, Coraline will let the Other Mother sew the buttons into her eyes.
Laika's previous film Coraline had pioneered and popularized the use of black and white 3-D printers, which sped up puppet production considerably and allowed the team to make the large number of puppet faces required for the film. [19] "Quite often it's the stop-motion movies that are more out there," co-director Fell told The New York Times ...