MAY 9, 2012: LAIKA has named Mary Sandell Head of Production. The appointment was announced today by Travis Knight.  A producer on Coraline, Ms. Sandell is a production executive and producer with over twenty years of experience managing high-profile commercials, feature films and television series.  She joined LAIKA in 2005, after [...]

APRIL 29, 2012: From The Los Angeles Times: “The small New England town of Blithe Hollow is more than a little odd; it’s a wonderfully wonky world of Gremlin-like cars, wavy plaid shirts and irregular picket fences. It has also been cursed with ‘eternal damnation’ after a witch trial 300 years ago, [...]

APRIL 18,2012: LAIKA has optioned Goblins, the Scholastic novel from award-winning novelist Philip Reeve (Mortal Engines) which will be published in the UK on April 5 and in the United States in Fall 2013, and has signed Emmy®, Annie®, and CLIO® Award-winning director Mark Gustafson (The PJs, Animation Director on The Fantastic Mr. Fox) to [...]

MARCH 21,2012: Two Portland-area libraries will honor Coraline and ParaNorman at separate events this Spring.  On March 29 at 4:00 PM, Coraline will play at the Tigard Public Library: 13500 SW Hall Blvd.  Enjoy free crafts and snacks during the screening.  Then on April 5 at 6:00 PM, Mark Shapiro will take folks behind-the-scenes of [...]

FEBRUARY 8, 2012: Shotgun Software announced that LAIKA has purchased a site license of Shotgun to manage production and enhance collaboration for stop-motion and VFX work throughout its studio. LAIKA implemented the flexible, web-based solution as a central platform for modernizing production management of the data-heavy stop-motion process on ParaNorman.
“The traditional method of sharing [...]

DECEMBER 12, 2011: From Wired.com: “ParaNorman’s unlikely hero cowers underneath a bed as a zombie gets dangerously close, in this new still from the upcoming comedy-thriller, provided exclusively to Wired.com.  ‘Norman is looking on in terror as the zombie tries to find his lost ear,’ says Travis Knight, ParaNorman’s lead animator [...]

NOVEMBER 19 – DECEMBER 11, 2011: After playing at the Animated Dreams festival in Tallinn, Estonia on November 19, Coraline will travel to the Animation Now! Festival in Poland for two additional screenings on December 9 and December 11.   Running from November 16-20, Animated Dreams is Estonia’s most significant festival, celebrating all forms of [...]

NOVEMBER 7, 2011: Coraline captured the two top prizes at Armenia’s 7th International Film Festival for Children and Young People.  The feature was named Best Animated film by both the International Adult Jury and the International Children’s Jury.  Held in Yerevan, Armenia, the festival took place October 22-26.

OCTOBER 27, 2011: New York and Portland – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has acquired world print and electronic rights to a publishing program based on ParaNorman, according to Travis Knight, LAIKA’s President & CEO and Andrew Smith, Vice President and Deputy Publisher at Little, Brown Books.
The acquisition for key movie tie-ins and an [...]

NOVEMBER 9: Moongirl will screen at 8:00 PM at the Sala Val del Omar Filmoteca de Andalucía (Film Archive of Andalusia).  For more information, log onto:  http://www.filmotecadeandalucia.com/