The Thrifting." Directed by Laika's lead character designer Thibault Leclercq and written by Chris Butler, the CG short (a first!) will be shown with the rerelease of the studio's 2012 classic ...

ParaNorman follows 11-year-old Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has to use his unique paranormal powers to save his town of Blithe Hollow after it’s overrun by zombies. Thirteen years ...

The beloved supernatural hit is getting a one-week return on the big screen during Halloween, with a new CG short attached. Reading time: Reading time 1 minute If you liked ParaNorman back in the day ...

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, fixed in ...

Norman, the young hero of the animated delight “ParaNorman,” hears dead people. He sees them, too. So there’s no sense trying to comfort him because you think he’s missing his dead grandma too much.

Norman, the young hero of the animated delight "ParaNorman," hears dead people. He sees them, too. So there's no sense trying to comfort him because you think he's missing his dead grandma too much.

In “ParaNorman” Norman Babcock is a misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead. Due to his abilities, he is tasked with taking on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old ...

On August 17th, ParaNorman, the second feature film from Oregon-based animation studio Laika (Coraline), will hit movie screens nationwide. The film’s veteran co-directors, Sam Fell (The Tale of ...

Why is Norman so bummed? The titular middle-school antihero of the stop-motion animated feature “ParaNorman” (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives in an 11-year-old boy’s paradise of creepy toys, spiky ...

once again combines brilliantly crafted stop-motion animation with a cheekily dark tale to create a fabulous entertainment. "ParaNorman," based on an original script by co-director Chris Butler , is ...