'Hits all the Portland notes': LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’ brings red carpet, fan experiences to Hollywood Theatre premiere
LAIKA’s stop-motion film features Portland landmarks and drew 500 workers over five years, according to Oregon Film executive director Tim Williams.
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'Hits all the Portland notes': LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’ brings red carpet, fan experiences to Hollywood Theatre premiere
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A red carpet, themed displays and a celebration of Portland’s creative community welcomed moviegoers to the Hollywood Theatre Friday for the opening-day screening of LAIKA’s “Wildwood.” The new stop-motion animated film brings recognizable Portland landmarks and neighborhood character to the big screen, offering a distinctly local setting for a story years [...]
The new film Laika, Wildwood, is undoubtedly the most ambitious. The director returns to this particularly expensive challenge. Specializing in stop motion, the Laika studio has built a golden reputation among animation fans, and this since the release of Coraline, a technical and artistic achievement unheard of. It is also surprisingly his only true [...]
‘Wildwood' Actually Has a $400M+ Budget? It May Be the Most Expensive Animated Film Ever Made
Remember that $100M price tag for Travis Knight's "Wildwood"? Forget it.That number came from exactly one place: a single throwaway line in a Variety box-office piece. Nobody questioned it. Nobody had reason to. Now, according to TheInSneider, it was flat-out wrong. Not a little wrong, but way wrong.Try four times that amount. Maybe more.One source describes the actual cost of bringing Knight's 17-year passion project to the screen as "astronomi…
Laika’s ‘Wildwood’ Ties the Studio’s Best-Ever Cinemascore as Audiences Fall Under Its Spell
Laika has never been a studio that rushes its work, and ‘Wildwood’ might be the ultimate proof. The stop-motion fantasy follows teenagers Prue and Curtis as they venture into an enchanted forest just outside Portland. Director and Laika CEO Travis Knight has said the film took 16 years and $100 million to finally reach cinemas....
Laika's 'Wildwood' Scores a Strong CinemaScore, Tying 'Kubo and the Two Strings' for the Studio's Best Audience Grade
Stop-motion animation is one of the most painstaking crafts in cinema. Every frame is built by hand, every puppet is sculpted and moved a fraction at a time, and a single shot can take days. Laika has spent 2 decades proving the effort is worth it, even when box office results haven’t always matched the...
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