Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

This story about “Kubo and the Two Strings” first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. The idea for “Kubo and the Two Strings” was simple, and it was ridiculously hard. “The ...

LAIKA Studios has spent the last decade not only fighting to keep stop motion animation relevant, but also working to take the old school art form to new technical heights — one frame at a time. Once ...

In hushed, dimly lit rooms across the Portland area, imaginations are at work. They're dreaming up dark fantasies, loopy tales of hipsters and space aliens and maybe a macabre reimagining of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Animation has acquired the rights to acclaimed children’s novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon, an epic coming-of-age fairy tale written by Kelly Barnhill. Marc Haimes, who recently ...

The official synopsis reads, “Clever, kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town. But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally ...

Watch a film clip from "Kubo and the Two Strings," starring Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, and Rooney Mara. Photo: Laika Studios/Focus Features The first and last things to be said in this ...

My name is Mathieu Brunet (it's French) and I have been an independent film critic for the past 5 years. My passion is animation and I've been writing and making my own video reviews of animated ...

Early in "Kubo and the Two Strings," our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle. Kubo, a ...

Indie sales agency All Rights Entertainment has achieved a string of pre-sales on “Lendarys,” a family adventure animation film that is currently in advanced stages of production and set for delivery ...

Puppetry is a truly ancient craft. With some five millennia of history as a practiced art fom, it can make the history of the video game seem rather trivial in scope. It’s a form of entertainment ...