PARANORMAN Trailer Debuts

In what’s sure to have you chuckling this Friday before All Hallows Eve, ghosts and zombies go bump in the night in the first trailer for the comedy thriller PARANORMAN, coming to theaters in 3D on August 17, 2012. In Laika’s follow-up to CORALINE, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, LET ME IN), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.

The voice cast includes Academy Award nominee Casey Affleck (THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD), Tempestt Bledsoe (The Cosby Show), Jeff Garlin (Toy Story 3), John Goodman (MONSTERS, INC.), Bernard Hill (TITANIC), Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick (UP IN THE AIR), Leslie Mann (RIO), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON), Tucker Albrizzi (GOOD LUCK CHARLIE), Alex Borstein (Family Guy), Jodelle Ferland (THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE) and Tony and Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch (30 Rock).

Source: Yahoo! Movies

Following the groundbreaking CORALINE, PARANORMAN is only the second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. As on CORALINE, Focus Features will hold worldwide distribution rights to the film, and Universal Pictures International will release it overseas.

PARANORMAN is being directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, from Mr. Butler’s original screenplay. Mr. Fell was director of THE  TALE OF DESPEREAUX and FLUSHED AWAY. Mr. Butler was storyboard supervisor on CORALINE and storyboard artist on Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE. Arianne Sutner, animation producer on THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, and Travis Knight are producing PARANORMAN. Academy Award winner Brian Van’t Hul (KING KONG, CORALINE) is the movie’s visual effects supervisor; Emmy Award winner Nelson Lowry (FANTASTIC MR. FOX, Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE) is its production designer; Grammy Award Nominee Jon Brion is composing the score (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND); and Tristan Oliver (FANTASTIC MR. FOX, the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit in THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT) is the director of photography on PARANORMAN.

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