This week, Laika and Focus Features release their stop-motion animated feature The Boxtrolls in theaters nationwide, and it seems poised to stand alongside Laika's previous films Coraline and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exclusive trailer (above) gives audiences the first real look at the stop-motion animated film from Laika, the studio behind ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Focus Features has released the first teaser ...

At last night’s Awardsline screening of Focus Features’ The Boxtrolls, directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable brought their bag of tricks, err, stop-motion dolls, and revealed to the audience ...

The titular protagonists of "The Boxtrolls" — an animated ad­ven­ture loosely based on the book "Here Be Monsters!" by British author and illustrator Alan Snow — are a colony of lumpy, gray homunculi ...

I cover the film industry. Unlike the last two above-noted features, The Boxtrolls is not a horror-tinged tale. The title characters are almost immediately established as friendly under-dwellers, and ...

The artisanal, handcrafted animated film is alive and well at LAIKA, the Oregon-based animation studio responsible for “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” and now “The Boxtrolls.” Loosely based on Alan Snow’s ...

"Boxtrolls" is in many ways a beautiful movie, and yet in other ways it's not very good at all. As an achievement in stop-motion animation, it's stunning - seamless and detailed, so perfectly done ...

Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Tracy Morgan, Toni Collette, Simon Pegg and Isaac Hempstead-Wright lend their voices to Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi's stop-motion film By Ashley Lee The Boxtrolls, ...