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Laika's beloved stop-motion film “ParaNorman” is returning to theaters this Halloween for a one-week engagement, now in a newly remastered RealD 3D format. The limited run, announced at the Annecy ...
Laika's sets have gone silent for the summer, soundstages are vacant, workshops deserted. Characters from the Hillsboro animation studio's sophomore feature, "ParaNorman," sit frozen in time ...
LAIKA’s “ParaNorman” is returning from the great beyond. The 2012 feature, directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (who also wrote the screenplay), will have a one-week theatrical run this ...
” a work of stop-motion animation, “ParaNorman” is at least as much about its texture as its story. Butler, Fell and company have built a comically grotesque world of pear-shaped dads ...
Now, “ParaNorman,” the second stop-motion animated film from Laika, is following in the footsteps of “Coraline” and will return to theaters later this year.
When it debuted on August 17, Laika’s stop-motion animated zombie comedy “ParaNorman” might just have made history–in perhaps the quietest way possible. In a small, almost thrown-away ...
ParaNorman came about because Knight became intrigued by some material Butler had developed on the side while working on Coraline. Selick urged him to show the first 30 pages of his ParaNorman ...
REVIEW: 'ParaNorman' Is a Stop-Motion Feast For the Eyes, Less For the Soul ...
'ParaNorman's' off-kilter costumes demand a giant amount of artistry and precision — on a micro-scale. 'ParaNorman' costume designs no small effort - Los Angeles Times ...
Norman, voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, is seen here in the 3D stop-motion film, "ParaNorman." AP Photo/Focus Features (CBS News) The 3-D stop-motion comedy thriller, "ParaNorman," hits theaters today ...
As ParaNorman writer/director Chris Butler shared in the video, when he was crafting the film's story, he thought of the movie as a more subversive take on Scooby-Doo.With that, Mitch and Courtney ...
'ParaNorman' costume designs no small effort. Mitch (Casey Affleck), the jock, is all muscle on top with spindly legs in cropped jeans and wearing a wristband for a cause on his arm.