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Award-winning studio LAIKA is bolstering its live-action slate by acquiring Crumble, an original script by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, No One Will Save You), who will direct. Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller, as well as Aditya Sood, will produce through their Lord Miller banner. Duffield will also produce. Lucy Kitada and Nikki Baida from …

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LAIKA has acquired the international best-selling fantasy novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. LAIKA’s President and CEO, Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee), will direct the animated feature film. A New York Times and Sunday Times best-seller with over four million copies sold, Piranesi was awarded the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. “Piranesi is …

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LAIKA President & CEO Travis Knight today announced the voice cast for the Wildwood movie. LAIKA is an Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning animation studio. The cast includes Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Peyton Elizabeth Lee (Andi Mack), Jacob Tremblay (Room), and Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of …

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LAIKA, the studio known for the Academy Award-nominated films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link, today announced The Night Gardener, an ambitious new project in conjunction with Bill Dubuque, creator of Netflix’s hit series Ozark. LAIKA’s CEO & President Travis Knight, who directed Kubo and the Two Strings and …

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There is no denying that a lot of work goes into creating stop-motion animated films. Just the shooting process alone for a feature-length film can take up to one or two years as a whole team of immensely driven and hard-working people come together to painstakingly capture each individual frame. But what exactly goes into …

Read More about Missing Link Designs: How Chris Butler’s Work Impacted LAIKA’s Pre-Production

It has been ten years since LAIKA released their first feature stop-motion animated film, Coraline. Audiences got to experience firsthand the kind of worlds the studio could bring them to. Since the release of Coraline, the studio has introduced us to the transcendent and terrifying world of the supernatural in ParaNorman, taken us through the …

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