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LAIKA announce The Boxtrolls with the voices of Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, Elle Fanning & More

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LAIKA, the animation studio behind Coraline and this year’s ParaNorman, have announced that they will be re-teaming with Focus Features once more to bring us The Boxtrolls, and have already scheduled the animated film for release in October 2014. Given the success of Coraline and ParaNorman alike (both have a slew of nominations and awards [...]




HeyUGuys Interview: Sam Fell and Chris Butler discuss ParaNorman

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Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Sam Fell and Chris Butler, the directors of new stop-motion animated flick ParaNorman. The film follows a young boy who can communicate with the dead and who must face a battle with hoardes of zombies to save his home town. So during the [...]




ParaNorman Review

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The best non-animated kids films around at the moment are, without a doubt, the three Diary of a Wimpy Kid flicks. It bodes well then that, to begin with at least, ParaNorman plays out like Diary of a Freaky Kid, with the eponymous Norman and his new pal Neil enjoying a relationship that recalls the live-action franchise’s [...]




Brilliant Featurette on the Stop-Motion of ParaNorman – ‘Hand-Making the World’

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ParaNorman is shaping up to be one of the best animated films of the year, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we find it among the nominees early next year for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. Along with Pixar’s Brave and Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, it looks like a very strong contender. We’ve [...]




5 Brilliant Mondo Posters & 3 Featurettes for ParaNorman – ‘Faces of ParaNorman’

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Vying for best animated feature of this year will be Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, Pixar’s Brave, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, and ParaNorman from LAIKA, the team behind Coraline. We saw a great new set of images from the animated stop-motion film last month, and with its release in the US only a month away, the film has [...]




Must Watch: Wes Anderson Directs Fantastic Commercial for Sony Xperia

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With two months left on the countdown clock before Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated new film, Moonrise Kingdom, is released, we have something a little different to share with you from the twice Oscar-nominated writer-director. Anderson has teamed up with Sony to work on their latest campaign for the Sony Xperia smartphone, and the commercial/mini-short that [...]




Brilliant New Images from ParaNorman show Norman and a Creepy Green Zombie

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The handful of things we’ve seen from ParaNorman so far – one of the year’s main stop-motion animated comedies (the other being Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie) – have all been simply excellent. We got a great new trailer at the start of the month, and now we have a few brilliant new images to share with [...]




Brilliant New Trailer for ParaNorman

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We’ve seen a handful of things from Laika’s upcoming stop-motion animated comedy already, and they’ve all been terrific. The impressive voice cast includes Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In) as the eponymous Norman, as well as Casey Affleck, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Anna Kendrick, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Apple have put out the new trailer for the [...]