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Dear Oscars: Don’t Let Laika and ‘Wildwood’ Fail. There Is No Backup Stop-Motion Studio Waiting in the Wings
Awards Circuit Column: Laika’s “Wildwood” opened to $12 million against a reported $100 million budget. If the last American stop-motion studio can’t survive, the art form may not either.
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Awards Circuit Column: Laika’s “Wildwood” opened to $12 million against a reported $100 million budget. If the last American stop-motion studio can’t survive, the art form may not either. Travis Knight built 231 puppets and 136 sets to make “ Wildwood .” Over the Laika film’s opening three-day weekend, audiences at 2,942 theaters bought enough tickets to cover roughly a 10th of what the film reportedly cost.
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