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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

Commercials for “The Boxtrolls” make it seem as if the animated movie is adorable and silly and family-friendly. It’s a story about a young boy adopted by bluish, grayish, box-wearing trolls. They ...

"The Boxtrolls" are the latest creation of the decidedly quirky animation studio Laika Entertainment, which is really all you need to know about it. Laika is the same outfit behind the wonderfully ...

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 ...

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 ...

They worked so hard on the animation that they forgot to write a good story. Two of the more interesting characters in The Boxtrolls are Mr. Trout (Nick Frost) and Mr. Pickles (Richard Ayoade). They ...