The second feature from Portland's Laika Entertainment is a grand romp for tweens -- and for those who appreciate fabulous filmmaking.

Laika, the Portland, Oregon-based animation studio, has some very big plans for its 20th anniversary, including new movies ...

If you're looking for something a little more obscure, MirrorMask is the grungy Y2K answer to Coraline. The dark fantasy ...

Last year, “Coraline,” the first feature from Hillsboro’s Laika studio, drew audiences when it returned to movie theaters for a limited engagement. Now, “ParaNorman,” the second stop ...

Laika's ParaNorman is returning to movie theaters internationally this Halloween, complete with a brand-new CG short.

Laika’s stop-motion follow up to Coraline, ParaNorman, the 2012 zombie movie for kids and adults, is coming back to theaters when it releases again in fall 2025.

“ParaNorman” took a big swing with its message of acceptance — but the real home run was made with the character Mitch. In a time when many were begging Disney to make greater strides with ...

ParaNorman works as a fun tribute to “B” horror movies and their tropes, as well as a rumination on the not particularly kid-friendly subject of death.

ParaNorman is reminiscent of Monster Squad, with its band of cliched characters fighting monsters with crude humor. There’s certainly a lot of inspiration taken from movies like The Goonies as well.

ParaNorman features ghosts, witches, and zombies, which are generally far more likely these days to be found in R-rated splatterfests (a fact that the movie proudly acknowledges with winking ...

Released in September of 2012, Laika’s ParaNorman was one of a handful of kid-friendly Halloween movies released in late 2012. Genndy Tartakovsky and Adam Sandler’s Hotel Transylvania was a ...

The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Poltergeist -- ParaNorman screenwriter and co-director Chris Butler was inspired by some of our favorite '80s movies as he worked on the stop-motion film about ...