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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 Two Strings, a Japan-set fantasy and directorial debut of Laika president and CEO Travis Knight (201...

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 world's 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 company's footsteps, creating visual wonders through this incredible technology. But those often indelible films don't represent all that animation can do. Sometimes, the old-fashi...

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 animation production. The art form, one of cinema’s oldest techniques, entails the incremental movem...

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 career pathway for BSU students into the animation industry. LAIKAs donation will fund upgrades t...

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 material for “Howl’s Moving Castle”). It’s the story of a precocious girl named Earwig who i...