Focus Features (North America) Universal Pictures (International)
Release dates
August 3, 2012 (2012-08-03) (Mexico)
August 17, 2012 (2012-08-17) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[2]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$60 million[3]
Box office
$107.1 million[3]
ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop-motion animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and written by Butler.[4] Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces, and only the second to be shot in 3-D.[5] In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town.
The idea of ParaNorman came from Butler, who thought making such a movie for kids could help express the challenges kids face growing up, after realizing that zombie films often contained a degree of social commentary. Production of the stop-motion animation feature took place at Laika's studio in Hillsboro, Oregon for three years, with the animating stage of production lasting about two years and beginning in late 2009. Instead of using traditional 3-D format cameras, the studio had sixty Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR cameras film the movie. Jon Brion composed the film's musical score.
ParaNorman was officially released on August 17, 2012, by Focus Features.[6] It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, script, entertainment value and humor,[7] and was a modest box office success, earning $107 million worldwide against its budget of $60 million.[3][8][9] The film was nominated for that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.
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mockumentary I'm Still Here. He went on to appear in Tower Heist (2011), ParaNorman (2012), and Interstellar (2014), and he received praise for his performance...
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2009. She also had a leading voice role in the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman, which earned an Academy Award nomination. From 2013 to 2014, she starred...
Arrested Development for Fox and Netflix. Garlin has also appeared in ParaNorman, WALL-E, Toy Story 3, and Safety Not Guaranteed, among other films. Garlin...
the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge. Fell co-directed Laika's ParaNorman, with Chris Butler, which was released in the United States in August...
Number Four, Bridesmaids, Sicko, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, and ParaNorman. Albrizzi was born and raised in Palm Harbor, Florida, the son of Claudine...
comedic films as Killers (2010), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and The Angry Birds...
Mind and I Heart Huckabees (both 2004), Synecdoche, New York (2008), ParaNorman (2012), Lady Bird (2017), and Christopher Robin (2018). He released his...
of animation. He was a producer and lead animator for Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012) and The Boxtrolls (2014). He also sits on the Laika board of directors...
Also that year, she lent her voice to the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman, starred in the commercially successful crime drama End of Watch, and...
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production designer, best known for The Angry Birds Movie film series and ParaNorman. He is also known for his work as a children's book author and illustrator...
Cimarron, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, The Incredibles, ParaNorman, Coraline), dies at age 68. Paila Pavese, Italian actress (Italian dub...
including Disney's Frankenweenie and Laika's Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and ParaNorman, as well as the stop motion television show Shaun the Sheep. It has also...
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in Portland, sculpting and fabricating puppets for the studio's films ParaNorman (2012), The Boxtrolls (2014), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Missing...
Bollywood movie, is reported to have been shot using Canon 5D Mark II ParaNorman, a 2012 3D stop-motion animated adventure horror film produced by LAIKA...
Ghost" appears in the post credits scene for the 2012 Laika studios film, ParaNorman. The songs "Hello Operator" and "Fell in Love with a Girl" were featured...
films as Wreck-It Ralph, Hotel Transylvania, The Princess and the Frog, ParaNorman, Curious George, Tangled the video games Medal of Honor: Airborne and...
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