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Laika Reaches Distribution Agreement With Shout! Factory Courtesy of LAIKA STUDIOS Laika, the Oregon-based studio behind animated features such as Coraline and  Kubo and the Two Strings, has reached a U.S. home entertainment distribution agreement with distributor Shout! Factory. Terms of the deal were not announced. The multi-year agreement give Shout! the U.S. home entertainment distribution rights in all packaged media to Laika’s first four Oscar-nominated films. They are  Kubo and the ...

Welcome to "This Week in Genre History," where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the worlds greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. In the past 25 years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, making computers the principal tool for the artform. DreamWorks and others have followed in the Disney companys footsteps, creating visual wonders through this incredible technology. B...

Laika, the animation studio responsible for  Missing Link,  Coraline, and more, is teaming with Bowie State University to build the nation’s first stop-motion animation studio at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). The partnership hopes to “enhance BSU’s animation curriculum, with the goal of providing a career pathway for BSU students into the animation industry,” with donations that “will fund upgrades to Bowie State’s green screen studio to allow stop-motion an...

LAIKA Teams up with Bowie State University to Build First HBCU Stop-Motion Animation Studio LAIKA, the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning feature film animation studio best known for Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings and Coraline, is partnering with Bowie State University to build the nations first stop-motion animation studio at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). The partnership will enhance BSUs animation curriculum, with the goal of providing a...

Studio Ghibli is back this week with their first film since 2014’s “When Marnie Was There” (excluding the co-production of "The Red Turtle"). The controversial “Earwig and the Witch” represents the landmark company’s first foray into fully 3DCG animated work, and it’s directed by the son of the legendary co-founder of the company Hayao Miyazaki. Goro Miyazaki, director of the company’s “From Up on Poppy Hill,” adapts the book by Diana Wynne Jones (who also wrote the source ...

The Trafford creative hub still managing to inspire in lockdown DESPITE lockdowns, Richard Evans, the Creative Industries Officer at Creative Industries, Trafford (CIT) has overseen several successful events. A former freelancer with Redeye, the photography network and the much missed Design Initiative, he joined CIT in 2006, for a while doing all three jobs together. The organisation, which has a staff of four, exists to support artists’ careers and develop their creative skills. It pl...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Man of Steel, with the summer blockbuster finally premiering in 2013. It was the beginning of the DCEU and a new era for Warner Bros’ comic book movies following Christian Bale’s exit from Batman. It’s now been a decade since Cavill’s life-changing casting and he’s not only still our Superman, hes the lead of Netflix’s Man of Steel sequel. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Warner Bros has placed its focus away fr...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Based on the explosive accounts of several former Fox News employees who exposed CEO Roger Ailes for rampant sexual harassment (as well as the toxic workplace that surrounded and emboldened him), Bombshell seemed destined to be one of December 2019s biggest releases — particularly as it featured one of the years most high-profile acting ensembles. An A-list cast that includes Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, and Alli...

Coraline, ParaNorman, and More LAIKA Characters Share Their 2021 Resolutions ✖ The new year is traditionally a time when people make resolutions for the year to come with those resolutions often being things intended to improve on various aspects of life. Resolutions to go to the gym, save money, read more, and other such self-improvement plans are common, but with 2020 having been such a difficult year sharing resolutions and plans for 2021 seems like a brave and optimistic thing more than e...

Have Yourself a 3D Printed Christmas Share: Welcome to Thomas Insights — every day, we publish the latest news and analysis to keep our readers up to date on what’s happening in industry. Sign up here to get the day’s top stories delivered straight to your inbox. Caroling, sleigh riding, festive cookie eating, and... 3D printing? Christmas has a long list of naughty and nice traditions, some of which, like Christmas trees bedecked in dazzling lights, have been established for centuries...