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Klaus is a Netflix movie, so of course it got limited theatrical distribution. The filmmakers behind it are not in the same league of name recognition as Cuaron, Scorsese and Baumbach, so Netflix almost surely put it in less theaters than they did for Roma, Irishman and Marriage Story. Also...

Director Chris Butler spoke to Screen Daily about how the Golden Globe win for Missing Link has given the film a new lease on life. https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-missing-link-found-a-second-life-after-its-surprise-awards-success/5146566.article The whole article is worth a read, but...

100%, although most of them seem to have more awareness than Laika. DreamWorks Animation is a well-known animation brand, but they don't have the consistency that Pixar and Disney do. For every How to Train Your Dragon and Shrek, you also get a Shark Tale or Bee Movie. So the name alone is...

That's a really good article. Thanks @Malcolm R for posting it. I would hate to see Laika switch over to streaming, only because it has been my pleasure to see each of their beautifully-crafted films on the big screen to soak up all that gorgeousness, and I want to be able to continue to do...

Showtimes are now up for this weekend and surprisingly, my local theater isn't completely closing Missing Link yet. So it won't be losing my theater in its screen count drop. However, starting Friday they are only going to be showing it once a day at beginning 9:55am. So its gross potential...

As is usually the case with Laika, there's a mid-credits scene where they pull back and let you see the puppets and the process in a time-lapse fashion, so yeah, it's definitely stop-motion. There might be some CG effects in there somewhere (I don't recall offhand) but it's absolutely a...

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me much. Here, it's still on its own screen, but we have 20 screens and there's not much to fill them with this week. Let us know what you think. :) That would be my assumption as well. Even here, they'll clear it out and use that screen as another one they...

I went to Slumdog Millionaire on the last day of its theatrical release at my local theater, which was after the Blu-ray was out and I already had it, because I wanted to ask if they could give me the poster of it. That was when I was the only one, but it had been out for weeks, so it made...

You were literally the only one? I mean I know you said it was empty, but I didn't think you meant quite that empty. How sad. That's happened to me I think only once in my life that I can recall -- maybe twice. It's a very weird feeling. What was it like for you to see it completely alone?

Travis Knight (the CEO of Laika, who directed Kubo and the Two Strings for them and has a producer credit on Missing Link) is heading back to live-action. After directing Bumblebee last year, Variety says he's just been hired by Warner Bros. to direct The Six Billion Dollar Man with Mark...

Most major new releases are covered by a minimum two-week contract with theaters. Especially since there's nothing huge coming down the pike next week, I suspect Missing Link will be able to retain most of its screens for next weekend. However, the end of the minimum two-week contract will...

I saw this today and found it delightful. It's a very sweet film, and as usual Laika rendered it beautifully. Visually, it is absolutely stunning, especially the environments. It's a brighter, warmer and more colorful film than Laika's others which have had darker color palettes. The whole...

Oh, okay, then it's just mine that's not pre-selling 3D shows. They still have to update listings for movies that they don't have on advance sale, so maybe they'll add 3D showtimes in the next couple of days.

My theater is selling tickets for opening weekend and it occurred to me I think this is the first Laika film that is not being released in 3D. Or, if it is getting a 3D release, my theater is not listed as showing it that way. I'm not a 3D fan so this doesn't affect me, but it's interesting...

I'm there automatically for anything that Laika does because they have yet to produce a movie I don't love. However, the trailers on this one haven't inspired as much excitement as Kubo and the Two Strings did. I saw that three times theatrically. I could be wrong but I think this is just a...

New trailer:

Trailers are here. The domestic one from Annapurna: and a slightly different international one from Lionsgate: And also the poster: The fact that the rating is on the poster must indicate that it's already done, or very close, if it's screened for the ratings board already. I don't...

Annapurna has moved the release date for Missing Link up a week to April 12. This follows Doctor Doolittle, which was set for April 12, being bumped to 2020: https://deadline.com/2018/10/missing-link-laikas-zach-galifianakis-hugh-jackman-zoe-saldana-release-date-annapurna-1202419001/

Annapurna just dated this for April 19, 2019. It will open against an untitled horror film from New Line and the next Disneynature documentary. That's also (currently) 2 weeks before Avengers 4...but I assume Marvel will probably move Avengers up again, in which case Missing Link would face...

For those in the UK, Lionsgate has picked up local distribution rights: https://deadline.com/2018/06/lionsgate-uk-boards-hugh-jackman-emma-thompsons-animated-feature-missing-link-cineeurope-1202408891/

Laika has announced the title and plot for this film, Missing Link. It will be released in spring 2019. https://www.laika.com/news/missing-link More at the link.

I hadn't thought about it like that, but you are probably correct. Annapurna has a pretty good reputation for making good movies, although most of their hits (American Hustle, off the top of my head) were actually released by other studios when they were only financing, not distributing...

Title: Missing Link () Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Family Director: Chris Butler Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Timothy Olyphant, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Amrita Acharia, Ching Valdes-Aran, Humphrey Ker, Adam Godley...