One of the world's top animation studios. Laika, has decided to get involved in live-action films in an effort to improve profitability.

Bugger the Golden Globes or the Oscars. I’m all about the Annies son! The biggest name in awards for animated flicks was held recently, with Dean Deblois’ epic sequel scooping top honours and a few other awards. In good news for James, The Boxtrolls also managed to scoop up two awards, for production design and Ben Kingsley’s voice acting, while …

Everything comes in two’s this week. Two great kid’s movies, two not-so-great Jason Bateman movies, and two South African films to boot. The Boxtrolls From Laika, the studio behind Coraline and Paranorman comes The Boxtrolls – a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath …

Plenty of new films hit the North American box office this weekend, hoping to sink their fangs into a slice of the profits. Surprisingly however, the biggest contender there failed to dethrone Gone Girl, as the Ben Affleck starring thriller held onto the top spot for a second week in a row. Let’s see who won and lost the box …

It’s often that you find two movies finishing almost neck and neck on opening for the top spot at the box office, but that’s exactly what happened this week as Annabelle and Gone Girl went head to demonic puppet head. Narrowly beating the thriller flick Annabelle, Gone Girl took the throne at the North American box office with an opening …

From Turtles to Terry Gilliam, here are a selection of the films that hit the international circuit between now and October, as compiled by our writers… [column size=one_half position=first ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=last ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=first ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=last ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=first ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=last ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=first ] …

There are plenty of animated flicks around the corner, but one such film that has my attention has to be The Boxtrolls. It’s got all the charm of stop-motion animation, and the quality looks absolutely superb. There’s a lot of work that goes into animating those little trolls however, as studio Laika will tell you. See for yourself. Last Updated: …

Laika may not be a name as well known as Pixar/Disney or Dreamworks, but over the last couple years, they produced Coraline and Paranorman, two of my favourite animated movies. And by animated, I mean by by hand, as they prefer to use stop-motion instead of CGI because that’s just how they roll. Their latest effort, The Boxtrolls, seems to be following their previous trend …