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PARANORMAN Ice Cream Truck To Cool Los Angeles In August – Film Opens Nationwide Aug 17th

By Michelle McCue | August 2, 2012

This August, LA kids can cool off zombie style with green sour ice cream courtesy of Focus Features’ PARANORMAN! Norman Babcock, the star of PARANORMAN, along with his co-stars (some of whom are zombies), will travel throughout New York City in an ice cream truck handing out free ice cream. The green sour ice cream is melon and apple flavored.

Below is a list of some of the stops:

Mary Poppins @ The Ahmanson Theater – Aug. 10th (7:30PM), 11th (2PM, 7:30PM), 12th (2PM, 7:30PM) 17th (7:30PM)

OC Fair – Aug 10th-12th, 12-8PM

Shakespeare in the Park @ Griffith Park – Aug 10th -12th, 17th; 7PM

Shakespeare by the Sea’s “Romeo and Juliet” – Aug 10th; 8PM-10PM

GREASE: The Musical @ Phillips Performing Arts – Aug 10th; 7:30PM

Summer Music Series @ Farmer’s Market – Aug 10th, 7PM-9PM

Big!World!Fun! @ Ford Theaters – Aug 11th, 10AM

Street Food Cinema @ Exposition Park – Aug 11th; 5:30PM-11:30PM

Garden Concerts for Kids @ Getty Center – Aug 11th-12th, 17th; 4PM-5:30PM

Family Amphitheater Performance @ Skirball Cultural Center – Aug 11th-12th, 17th; 12PM-2PM

Summer Family Fun Series @ Farmer’s Market – Aug 17th, 12PM-3PM

LevittLA @ MacArthur Park – Aug 10th-12th, 17th; 7PM

Summer Sounds @ the Hollywood Bowl – Aug 17th 10AM and 11:15AM

The ice cream truck will also be hitting up the local Beach Cities on Sunday August 5^th.

PARANORMAN is set in the town of Blithe Hollow, whose locals profit from mining the town’s history as the site, 300 years ago, of a famous witch hunt. 11-year-old Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee of Let Me In and The Road) spends much of his days appreciating the finer points of scary movies and studying ghost lore. In fact, Norman is gifted with the ability to see and speak with the dead, such as his beloved grandmother (Elaine Stritch). Most days, he prefers their company to that of his flustered father (Jeff Garlin), spacey mother (Leslie Mann), and deeply superficial older sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick). At middle school, Norman dodges bullying Alvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), confides in the impressionable Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), and tries to tune out his blowhard teacher Mrs. Henscher (Alex Borstein). Norman is unexpectedly contacted by his odd uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman), who floors him with the revelation that a centuries-old witch’s curse is real and is about to come true, and that only Norman will be able to stop it from going into overdrive and harming the townspeople. Once a septet of zombies – led by The Judge (Bernard Hill) – suddenly rises from their graves, Norman finds himself caught in a wild race against time alongside Courtney, Alvin, Neil, and Neil’s musclebound older brother Mitch (Casey Affleck) as Sheriff Hooper (Tempestt Bledsoe) chases them all. Worse, the town is up in arms and taking up arms. Norman bravely summons up all that makes a hero – courage and compassion – as he finds his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.