” a work of stop-motion animation, “ParaNorman” is at least as much about its texture as its story. Butler, Fell and company have built a comically grotesque world of pear-shaped dads ...

ParaNorman also features what are arguably the most emotive stop-motion characters ever created by pioneering the use of digital printing technology in the stop-motion process.

Now, “ParaNorman,” the second stop-motion animated film from Laika, is following in the footsteps of “Coraline” and will return to theaters later this year.

“ParaNorman was a breakthrough film for LAIKA — emotionally rich, visually daring, and proudly weird in all the right ways,” said LAIKA’s Chief Marketing & Operations Officer David Burke.

It's not the wall-to-wall raves enjoyed by Laika's 2009 debut, "Coraline," but it's good news. In all, like me, folks are more enamored of the filmmaking -- the handmade puppets, the painstaking ...

That’s the primary distinction that made both Henry Selick’s 2009 Oscar nominee “Coraline,” and now “ParaNorman,” stand out. Selick’s ethereal adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book made ...

LAIKA’s “ParaNorman” is returning from the great beyond. The 2012 feature, directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (who also wrote the screenplay), will have a one-week theatrical run this ...

Tell someone the premise of the new film "ParaNorman" — Smart Young Boy. Soulful Eyes. Sees Dead People. — and the listener's likely to say, "Ooh, like 'The Sixth Sense.' ...

Norman Babcock, the protagonist of “ParaNorman,” teams up (albeit not willingly) towards the beginning of the movie with Neil, an eccentric, chubby kid who’s as much of an outcast at school ...

“ParaNorman was a breakthrough film for Laika – emotionally rich, visually daring and proudly weird in all the right ways,” said David Burke, Laika’s chief marketing and operations officer ...

The sneakers in “ParaNorman” are something to behold, which makes sense when you consider that Laika, the animation studio that produced the film along with Focus Features, is owned by Nike co ...

'ParaNorman' costume designs no small effortMitch (Casey Affleck), the jock, is all muscle on top with spindly legs in cropped jeans and wearing a wristband for a cause on his arm. Schoolyard ...