ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop motion comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, and written by Butler.[5] Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town.
Production
company
Laika
Distributed by Focus Features (North America)
Universal Pictures (International)
Release dates
August 3, 2012 (Mexico)
August 17, 2012 (United States)
Running time 93 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $60 million[3][4]
Box office $107.1 million[3]
