Summary

Netflix and Skydance Animation’s “Ray Gunn” and DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” had to make strategic trims to earn their PG ratings “Wildwood,” Laika’s stop-motion animated fantasy based on the book series by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, opens in theaters this weekend. It’s a staggering technical achievement, with principal photography taking more than six years, utilizing dozens of puppets, including one character The General, a majestic golden eagle, that required 3,794 individually placed feathers .

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