LAIKA’s films possess a truly distinctive, dreamy quality, driven by their pioneering approach to stop-motion animation.

For the acclaimed director, writer and animator Henry Selick, stop-motion animation is magic. It’s a distinctly beautiful cinematic form, with everything from detailed puppets to vast sets brought to ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. When considering the greatest animated works of the last ...

BALTIMORE - The film studio that brought you Coraline is laying the groundwork for the next generation of filmmakers in Maryland. Bowie State University is now the only college in Maryland with a stop ...

Coraline has climbed to second place on the Top 10 Stop-Motion Movies at the US Box Office, surpassing The Nightmare Before Christmas. With consistent success since re-release, Coraline has made over ...

Teri Hatcher, Dakota Fanning and a host of other stars gave voice to the characters in "Coraline," the first feature from Laika Entertainment, Phil Knight's Oregon movie studio, which opens in ...

The Comic-Con faithful got a sneak peak of early footage. After watching some of it myself while visiting Laika a few months ago, I’m hungry for more. Selick has brought the animation mastery of ...

HARRISVILLE, N.H. Coraline -- These days it has practically become an event when a stop-motion animation movie arrives in theaters. As anyone with fond remembrances of televised holiday Christmas ...

Although I'm personally not a big fan of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, I do have immense appreciation for the extraordinary stop motion animation that filmmaker Henry Selick is a master ...

Coraline is bored. It's raining outside, and her parents are too busy to play. Everything is drab and gray. But "Coraline," the film, is everything but. Our heroine soon finds herself drawn into a ...

Behind the anonymous walls of a Hillsboro warehouse, dozens of filmmakers labor quietly on the offbeat project that will turn sneaker mogul Phil Knight into a moviemaker. Animators hunch over tiny ...