While the bulk of modern cinematic animation lives inside computers, with Pixar-style CG characters dominating the box-office, Laika has carved out its own creative space, with advanced stop-motion ...

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 ...

The Boxtrolls is the latest movie from stop motion animation studio Laika, previously responsible for the award-winning Coraline and ParaNorman. Adapted from the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow, ...

The story goes something like this: in the city of Cheesebridge, a family of curious and timid creatures known as the Boxtrolls rollick through the streets wearing cardboard boxes, in search of ...

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 a new full-length ...

There’s more to Laika’s latest animated movie The Boxtrolls than meets the eye, not least in the way this ostensibly stop-motion creation seamlessly utilises modern animation techniques and even 3D ...

Though it has some story issues, Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi's The Boxtrolls is a technical marvel, a traditional stop-motion animation film that uses modern technology to augment the original ...

The titular protagonists of "The Boxtrolls" — an animated ad­ven­ture loosely based on the book "Here Be Monsters!" by British author and illustrator Alan Snow — are a colony of lumpy, gray homunculi ...

LAIKA‘s latest stop-motion project “The Boxtrolls” hits theaters this weekend and Indiewire’s managing editor Nigel Smith spoke with the directors to discuss “The Making Of.” Graham Annable and ...

There's a strange, special kind of magic at work in "The Boxtrolls." The latest gleefully Gothic offering from the stop-motion wizards at Laika Entertainment could have easily been sunk by its ...

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, ...