The Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, recently held the 18th Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues. Comedian Patton Oswalt served as host for the 9th time to the more than 1000 guests gathered at the Beverly Hilton to celebrate VFX talent in 25 awards categories. The Lion King was named the photoreal feature winner, garnering three awards. Missing Link was named top animated film, winning two awards. The Mandalorian was named best photoreal episode and …
The Oscar-nominated animated film Missing Link from acclaimed stop-motion studio Laika has been added to Collider’s FYC Screening Series at ArcLight Hollywood. On Wednesday, January 29th, there will be a post-screening Q&A with writer/director Chris Butler. Missing Link is about a lonely Sasquatch who teams up with an English explorer to travel to the Himalayas to meet his distant cousins, who are Yetis. The film already took home the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, and is a top contender for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award. Laika is one of the …
In honor of Missing Link winning best animated feature at the Golden Globes this year, what better time to binge a ton of movies featuring Bigfoot.
With all eyes now on Laika Studios' animated movie Missing Link after its shock Golden Globes win, we look at how original the Sasquatch story is.
https://youtu.be/IRSyUgxBowE Listen / download here: We recently had the pleasure of revealing an incredible 360° video for LAIKA's Missing Link that took fans around the world onto--and into--the set of the stop-motion marvel's Wild West saloon. That video, which gives viewers unprecedented access to an actual set from the movie, including everything behind and in front of the cameras, was narrated by the film's production designer Nelson Lowry. We had a chance to chat with Lowry, a longtime stop-motion animation artist and LAIKA veteran, about his career and his latest awards-…
Missing Link, the incredible achievement in stop-motion animation from award-winning studio LAIKA, is poised to bring home even more awards thanks to its Golden Globe and Annie Awards (and hopefully Oscars) nominations. And those awards are very much deserved. It's hard to overstate just how much hard work, talent, and creativity goes into each and every frame of a LAIKA film. But luckily we have an exclusive video that offers a glimpse of just that, a peek behind the curtain to show off the effort that goes into the sets, characters, costumes, and animation of the studio'…
The nominations for the 47th annual Annie Awards were announced today. In what has become a perennial foregone conclusion, Disney leads the pack once again. Its Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4 are among the most decorated films this year. The former grabbed eight nominations, the latter six. Both of those films will be vying for Best Feature along with LAIKA Studios’ Missing Link, which also pulled in eight nominations, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and Netflix’s Klaus—perhaps the dark horse (and certainly the strangest) in this most coveted category. Klaus picked up seven nominations …
From LAIKA Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment comes Missing Link, now on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD. The latest stop-motion marvel from the studio that brought you Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings delivers a classic globetrotting adventure tale that features Victorian-era sensibilities clashing against New World discoveries, all wrapped up in a story about discovering yourself and finding a place where you truly belong. If you aren't familiar with the story from its theatrical run, Missing Link stars Hugh Jackman as Sir Lionel Frost, a brave and dashing adventurer who …
Imagine all the intricacies that go into staging an action sequence: the stunts, choreography, rehearsing, and timing. Now imagine that same process – but in stop-motion animation. A simple ten second shot of, say, Tom Cruise running down a freeway takes hours to set up and shoot traditionally, but in stop-motion: that same shot takes days, if not weeks, to film. This brings us to Missing Link, the latest stop-motion feature from Laika Studios, a globe-trotting action adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones. In the film— self-centered explorer, Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman), journeys forth to …
There's all this talk about Hellboy under-performing in 3rd place, but Missing Link opened in more theaters and took 9th.
Shazam! will remain king at the box office for at least another weekend. The film took in $6.6 million on its way to about $21 million in its second frame. So far, the Zachary Levi family comedy has earned $204 million worldwide. As for the newcomers, Little is performing the best among the three. The Big-inspired comedy is on track to bring in $14 million after earning $5.1 million on Friday. That’s about in line with expectations for the film, which stars Regina Hall as a bullying exec who is transformed into her teenage body (played …
We here at Collider are happy to exclusively debut a clip from Carter Burwell’s score for the stop-motion animated action-adventure film Missing Link. The movie hails from the wildly talented artists at LAIKA, whose previous films include Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings. For Missing Link, director Chris Butler (ParaNorman) decided to craft a throwback action-adventure movie in the vein of Indiana Jones, albeit with a twist. Zach Galifianakis voices Mr. Link, a creature tired of living a solitary life in the Pacific Northwest who enlists a fearless explorer (Hugh Jackman) to guide him …
Zoe Saldana talked with CinemaBlend about what it took to perfect her character in Laika's latest movie.
Most movies are marketed as being "years in the making", but for a LAIKA Studios movie, that tagline is literally true. Not only do the stop-motion masterpieces take years to create, from the concept stage to final polished production, they're also some of the most hands-on creations you'll ever seen on the big screen. Missing Link is the latest herculean effort and labor of love from the studio, and you can get a glimpse of how it all came together thanks to new behind-the-scenes featurettes and clips from the movie itself. Starring Hugh Jackman, …
For the last decade, LAIKA has delivered incredible works of art and artistry in the stop-motion animated films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Four films with five Oscar nominations among them, four films that featured a mixture of genre, tone, settings, and original or adapted storylines. The studio's award-winning animation techniques have also evolved from one film to the next so that no two pictures are alike. The one core similarity that runs through every LAIKA film, however, is an ambitious storytelling spirit anchored by charismatic and compelling characters. Missing Link continues …
The Hangover actor plays Bigfoot in Laika's newest stop-motion adventure.
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