"From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches and, worst, of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. Featuring the voice talents of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin and John Goodman, it's a frightfully funny tale for the whole family."
"From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches and, worst, of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. Featuring the voice talents of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin and John Goodman, it's a frightfully funny tale for the whole family."
For its second week in release, the stop-motion animated children's film ParaNorman held itself to a respectable third place finish, adding a little over $8.5 million to its domestic take. So far, the Focus Features film has pulled in $28.2 million domestically.
In this featurette from LAIKA and Focus Features, The Zombies of ParaNorman, Writer/Director Chris Butler, Director Sam Fell and Producer/Lead Animator Travis Knight discuss the creation of their "animated zombie movie for kids" and paying tribute to George Romero's living dead with their own take on the "shambling ghoul, the foot-dragging zombie"
ParaNorman rises from the dead and into theaters on August 17th.
2-BIT BUB, the official iOS mobile game for ParaNorman is available is available now for free in the iTunes App Store:
"ParaNorman's 2-BIT BUB is an adorably odd action-puzzler starring mobile gaming's weirdest new hero. Bub is a ghost-dog in two bits, and it's up to you to slingshot his ectoplasmically conjoined body through 30 levels of stunning visuals pulled straight from the movie! Bub will need all his cunning—and a bunch of spectral floating orbs—to collect the zombie bones he's lost. But this is one ghost-dog who's ready to learn some new tricks!"
New in print as a movie tie-in for very young readers, ParaNorman: Attack of the Pilgrim Zombies! by Annie Auerbach (based on the screenplay by Chris Butler) is available now.
"Blithe Hollow is like any other small town, except that an old witch's curse is causing Pilgrim zombies to rise from their graves! Moaning and groaning, the undead wander the streets looking for one boy - Norman Babcock. Norman can talk to ghosts... but zombies aren't ghosts. Can Noman and his friends brave the invasion to send the Pilgrims packing?"
LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, have just released a new trailer for their upcoming stop-motion zom-com ParaNorman.
Written by Chris Butler and directed by Butler and Sam Fell, ParaNorman tells the tale of a young misfit, cursed (or blessed) with the ability to speak with the dead, who is forced to use his supernatural gift to battle the zombies and other monsters unleashed on his town by an ancient curse.
ParaNorman features voice acting by Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe and others.
