LAIKA

Coraline, the 2009 stop-motion epic, returned to theaters this past Monday and Tuesday grossing a combined $4.91 million in U.S. gross box office. The re-release from Fathom Events, LAIKA, and Park Circus was third in gross box office behind Barbie and Oppenheimer on both...

Along with the re-release of Avatar next month, another film from 2009 has made a return to cinemas. For the second year in a row, a screening of LAIKA’s stop-motion film Coraline scored impressive results in the event cinema sector....

Chris Butler is a veteran of acclaimed Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. The Liverpool native was a storyboard supervisor on Coraline (2009), writer and co-director of ParaNorman (2012), and co-writer of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). His latest effort...

There is magic happening behind the bland exterior of a 120,000-square-foot warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon, 17 miles west of Portland. Inside is the headquarters of LAIKA, one of the most artistically adventurous animation studios of our time. It’s there that...