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Paranorman
''ParaNorman'' is a 2012 American animated comedy horror, comedy horror film produced by Laika, LLC, Laika. Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (filmmaker), Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and written by Butler, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces, and only the second to be shot in 3-D film, 3-D. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old Witchcraft, witch's curse on his Massachusetts town. The idea of ''ParaNorman'' came from Butler, who thought making such a movie for kids could help express the challenges kids face growing up, after realizing that zombie films often contained a degree of soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laika, LLC
Laika, LLC (stylized as LAIKA) is an American independent production company specializing in Stop motion, stop-motion animation and forthcoming live-action feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos, and short films. The studio is best known for its stop-motion feature films, ''Coraline (film), Coraline'', ''ParaNorman'', ''The Boxtrolls'', ''Kubo and the Two Strings'', and ''Missing Link (2019 film), Missing Link''. It is owned by Nike, Inc., Nike co-founder Phil Knight and is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, part of the Portland metropolitan area. Knight's son, Travis Knight, acts as Laika's president and CEO. Laika previously had two divisions, Laika Entertainment for feature films and Laika/house for commercial content. The studio spun off the commercial division in July 2014 to focus exclusively on feature film production. The new independent commercial division is now called HouseSpecial. History In the late 1990s, Will Vinton#Will Vinton Studios, Will Vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known for his versatile roles in both television and film, and his career spanned over fifty years. Hill first gained prominence as the troubled hard man Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale's ''Play for Today'' drama ''The Black Stuff'' (1980) and its sequel serial ''Boys from the Blackstuff'' (1982), the latter earning him a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He received an additional nomination for his role as David Blunkett in the drama ''A Very Social Secretary'' (2005), for which he was also nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor. He also appeared on television in ''I, Claudius'' (1976), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of '' Henry VI, Part 1'', '' 2'', and '' 3'', and ''Richard III'' (all 1983), ''Great Expectations'' (1999), and ''Wolf Hall'' (2015). Hill gained international recognition for his film roles as Captain Edward Smith in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucker Albrizzi
Tucker Albrizzi (born February 25, 2000) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tyler Duncan on ''Big Time Rush,'' Jake on ''Good Luck Charlie,'' Randall Snyder on ''American Vandal'' and Colin McConnell on ''A.P. Bio''. He has appeared in the movies ''I Am Number Four'', ''Bridesmaids'', ''Sicko'', '' Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'', and ''ParaNorman''. Early life Albrizzi was born on February 25, 2000 and raised in Palm Harbor, Florida, the son of Claudine (née Andrews) and Keith Albrizzi. Career He began acting in commercials in Orlando, Florida in 2007 when he was 7 years old. His brother Patrick was diagnosed with leukemia later that year and created a charity called Driving for Donors, which adds marrow donors to the Be The Match National Marrow Donor Program. Albrizzi and his family spent the next year traveling the country in an RV holding marrow drives for Driving For Donors. He came to Los Angeles in 2008 to be in a documentary with Patrick ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Fell
Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965) is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor. Sam started his career as director on the short film ''The Big Cheese'' for 3 Peach Animation. He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like ''Pop'', Peter Lord's Oscar-nominated short film ''Wat's Pig'', as well as '' Rex the Runt'', before directing the 2002 project ''Chump''. He also developed a children's TV series called ''Rabbits!''. In 2001, he came up with the story of ''Flushed Away'' which he developed through 2002. From 2003, he went on to direct (with David Bowers) the film for Aardman. He also provided the voices for the characters Liam, The Prophet, Ladykiller and Fanseller. From 2008, he went on to direct '' The Tale of Despereaux'' for Universal Studios, and also provided the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge. Fell co-directed Laika's ''ParaNorman'', with Chris Butler, which was released in the United States The United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brion
Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and The Grays (band), the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones (band), Love Jones, Eels (band), Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to ''Stereogum,'' Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include ''Hard Eight (film), Hard Eight'' (1996), ''Magnolia (film), Magnolia'' (1999), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (both 2004), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Butler (filmmaker)
Chris Butler (born 12 February 1974) is an English animator, writer and director, known for his works at Laika, such as ''ParaNorman'' and '' Missing Link'', which were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He studied animation at the University for the Creative Arts in south England and is an alumnus of Hugh Baird College in Merseyside. On 1 May 2024 it was confirmed that Butler will write the screenplay for the upcoming live action ''Masters of the Universe'' film which is due for release on 5 June 2026. Filmography Character designer * ''The Tigger Movie'' (2000) (Also sequence co-director) * '' Missing Link'' (2019) Storyboard artist * '' Mr. Bean: The Animated Series'' (2002-2004) (10 episodes) * '' Tarzan 2'' (2005) * '' Corpse Bride'' (2005) * '' The Tale of Despereaux'' (2008) (Uncredited) * ''Coraline ''Coraline'' () is a 2002 British dark fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing ''Coraline'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodelle Ferland
Jodelle Micah Ferland (born October 9, 1994) is a Canadian actress. She debuted as a child actress at the age of six in the television film ''Mermaid'' (2000) for which she won a Young Artist Award and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, making her the youngest nominee in Emmy history. Her career progressed with roles in the television film ''Carrie'' (2002), the horror films ''They'' (2002), ''Tideland'' (2005), ''Silent Hill'' (2006) and '' Case 39'' (2009), and the comedy film '' Good Luck Chuck'' (2007). She also led the television series '' Kingdom Hospital'' (2004). From the 2010s, Ferland had roles in the romantic fantasy film '' The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' (2010) and the horror films ''The Cabin in the Woods'' (2011) and ''The Tall Man'' (2012). She has also starred in the television series ''Dark Matter'' (2015–2017), which earned her a Saturn Award nomination. Early life Ferland was born Jodelle Micah Ferland in Nanaimo, British Columbia on October 9, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Casey Affleck, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, he began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film ''Lemon Sky'' (1988). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: ''To Die For'' (1995), ''Good Will Hunting'' (1997), ''Gerry (2002 film), Gerry'' (2002), and in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's (film series), ''Ocean''s film series (2001–2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama ''Lonesome Jim'' (2006). Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Robert Ford (outlaw), Robert Ford in the Western drama ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'' and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Animated Feature
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is an Academy Awards, Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best animation, animated feature film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001. For much of the Academy Awards' history, the AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular award for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration. Instead, the Academy occasionally bestowed special Oscars for exceptional productions, usually for Walt Disney Pictures, such as Academy Honorary Award for ''Snow White and the Seven D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann (born March 26, 1972) is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, including '' The Cable Guy'' (1996), '' She's the One'' (1996), ''George of the Jungle'' (1997), '' Big Daddy'' (1999), '' Orange County'' (2002), '' The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (2005), '' Knocked Up'' (2007), '' Drillbit Taylor'' (2008), '' I Love You Phillip Morris'' (2009), '' 17 Again'' (2009), '' Funny People'' (2009), '' This Is 40'' (2012), '' The Bling Ring'' (2013), '' The Other Woman'' (2014), and '' Blockers'' (2018). Early life Mann was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Newport Beach. She was raised by her mother, Janet, who led design and quality programs for eight years at Ayres Hotel group. Mann has stated of her father, "My dad is...I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him." She has two siblings and three older step-brothers. Her maternal grandmother, Sadie Viola Heljä Räsänen, was the daughter of Finnish immigrants. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (; born June 20, 1989) is an American actor primarily known for his debut role as Fogell/McLovin in '' Superbad'' (2007) and Chris D'Amico/Red Mist in the ''Kick-Ass'' franchise. Early life Christopher Mintz-Plasse was born in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he attended El Camino Real High School, performing on its improv comedy team. He is the son of Ellen Mintz, a school counselor, and Ray Plasse, a postal worker. He is Jewish on his mother's side, whereas his father is from a Catholic family. His father was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and raised in Webster, Massachusetts, making Mintz-Plasse a life-long Boston sports fan. Career When auditioning for the part of Fogell in his film debut '' Superbad'', he had no professional head shots and instead took one with his camera phone. Because he was 17 at the time and still a minor, his mother was required by law to be on set while he filmed his sex scene in the movie. Upon release, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian actor. He gained recognition as a child actor for his leading roles in '' The Road'' (2009) and '' Let Me In'' (2010). He provided the voice of the title character in stop-motion animations ''ParaNorman'' (2012) and '' Memoir of a Snail'' (2024), and appeared in '' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), '' X-Men: Apocalypse'' (2016), ''Alpha'' (2018), and '' Dark Phoenix'' (2019). In 2021, Smit-McPhee garnered critical acclaim for playing a troubled teenager in Jane Campion's western film '' The Power of the Dog''. He received various accolades for his performance, including a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since featured in the thriller miniseries ''Disclaimer'' and the biographical drama '' Maria'' (both 2024). Early life Smit-McPhee was born on 13 June 1996 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Sonja Smit and Andy McPhee. His father is an actor and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
