Laika Studios head Travis Knight says of the gay-friendly teaser, "We're just trying to be who we are." By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “Sometimes there’s a mother,” the narrator intones. “Sometimes ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Focus Features has released the first teaser ...

Trolls, it seems, are in the midst of a major image makeover. For years, any time you saw a troll in a fantasy movie — the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings series come to mind — they were ...

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The latest animated feature from Laika, the Portland-based studio that delivered Coraline and ParaNorman, is a surprisingly idiosyncratic blend of children’s adventure and political satire. Based on ...

At this year's Comic-Con, the makers of the new stop-motion animated movie, The Boxtrolls, were unusually honest about the stress of making their film. Normally, at a panel in front of 6,000 people, ...

LAIKA, which brought viewers 'Paranorman,' continues to experiment with a "hybrid" approach to animation By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor A trio from Portland, Ore.-based animation studio LAIKA showed ...

If you've seen one Boxtroll, you've seen them all? Not quite. The trailers for Laika's stop-motion/CG hybrid animated film have given us some indication that each Boxtroll has their own look and style ...

The town of Cheesebridge—the setting for The Boxtrolls—rises from the water's edge like a traffic cone dotted with teetering Victorian buildings. It's a mad, dizzying construction of spiraling streets ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- An animated fable with a comedic flare hits theaters this weekend, and "The Boxtrolls" isn't just for kids. Still, it's not for everyone, and it can take awhile to get engaged with ...

Creature Teacher: A boy is shocked to learn he was adopted into his green-skinned, cavern-dwelling family in the latest animation from the makers of Coraline. The stop-motion creations of animation ...