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Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still, nothing could quite prepare him for his first stop-motion project: working [âŚ]
Laikaâs latest animated stop-motion story explores a fictional, mysterious, unurbanized stretch of land outside the city of Portland, Oregon. The Impassable Wilderness, as it is called, has many lessons to teach heroine Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) when she drags her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay) into the woods shrouded in ivy to save her
As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI âis antithetical to everything that we are at this studio,â also emphasizing that he hopes people âsee the dangerâ in the technologyâs potential as much as the âvalue.â âBut all of [âŚ]
The MPA gave âWildwoodâ a PG-13 for âstrong fantasy violence/bloody images, thematic material, suicide-related material, brief partial nudity and language,â which is a mouthful for any movie and an especially wild one for a stop-motion picture about a girl hunting for her kidnapped baby brother. Itâs the first PG-13 in Laikaâs 17 years as a [âŚ]
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