Sir Ben Kingsley lends his voice to The Boxtrolls, the latest stop-motion animated adventure from LAIKA, the studio brought us Coraline and ParaNorman. Kingsley plays Archibald Snatcher in the film, ...

Laika animation studio has been crushing the stop-motion game since their 2009 Academy Award-nominated Coraline. They followed up with the equally impressive Paranorman, and now their latest work of ...

Sir Ben Kingsley lends his extraordinary voice to the diabolical Archibald Snatcher in LAIKA’s breathtakingly beautiful 3D stop-motion animated adventure, The Boxtrolls, loosely based on Alan Snow’s ...

All of the best comedies are subversive. And by that token, the new animated movie The Boxtrolls is a tremendous success — it takes the fabric of society and gleefully shreds it, showing how silly and ...

Based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is a uniquely spun dark fairytale for those who love misfits and outliers. The squeamish may find the bug-eating protagonists – the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Archibald Snatcher, “The Boxtrolls” villain voiced by Ben Kingsley, did not walk between sets during filming. Instead, he was delicately perched on a pillow and wheeled gingerly ...

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 ...

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Giving animation giants Pixar and Disney another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

They worked so hard on the animation that they forgot to write a good story. Two of the more interesting characters in The Boxtrolls are Mr. Trout (Nick Frost) and Mr. Pickles (Richard Ayoade). They ...

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