Wildwood by colin meloy6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() LAIKA's most recent production, 2019's Missing Link, was also its most expensive yet at a budget of $102.3 million, only bringing in $26.6 million at the global box office. ![]() 2009's Coraline, the studio's first movie, adapts Neil Gaiman's dark children's fantasy novel of the same name and remains its highest grossing film to date at $124.6 million against a $60 million budget. The Oregon-based LAIKA has released five stop-motion animated feature films so far, all of which have enjoyed varying degrees of critical success. Collider reports that multiple Oscar-nominee Caleb Deschanel is acting as the movie's cinematographer, coming off his efforts on 2019's The Lion King remake. 9 Meloy released a sequel, Under Wildwood, in 2012, and the third book in the series, Wildwood Imperium, was released in 2014. ![]() He kicked off the book tour as the keynote of the AJC Decatur Book Festival on September 2, 2011. Knight also helmed LAIKA's 2016 film Kubo and the Two Strings, which Butler co-wrote, as well as 2018's critically acclaimed Transformers prequel Bumblebee. Meloy made his debut as a children's writer with Wildwood, illustrated by his wife, Carson Ellis. Travis Knight, who co-founded LAIKA with his father Phil Knight, is directing Wildwood based on an adapted screenplay by longtime LAIKA writer/director Chris Butler. ![]()
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