Dear Oscars: Don’t Let Laika and ‘Wildwood’ Fail. There Is No Backup Stop-Motion Studio Waiting in the Wings

Dear Oscars: Don’t Let Laika and ‘Wildwood’ Fail. There Is No Backup Stop-Motion Studio Waiting in the Wings hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 5, 2026 1:00pm PT 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.

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It earned an A CinemaScore and a 99% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This past weekend, it came in at No.

3 with another $7.5 million, bringing its grand total to $25 million domestically and $35 million globally. Related Stories Owen Thiele on His New Tinder Campaign, ‘Adults’ Season 3 and the ‘13 Going on 30’ Sequel (EXCLUSIVE) Joshua Jackson Teases ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’ in New HBO Max Series ‘How to Survive Without Me’: ‘I’m Getting Too Old For This S—’ And it did all that with a PG-13 rating, a 131-minute run time and a studio that has earned five Oscar nods for animated feature in five tries.

Against a reported $100 million budget, this doesn’t feel like a win. It feels like an alarm sounding for the health of the stop-motion animation community.

Stop-motion is more expensive than traditional animation because every character is a physical puppet, every set is built by hand and animators nudge each figure a fraction of an inch and photograph it dozens of times for a single second of film. Stop-motion is a labor force, and that labor force is shrinking.

Tippett Studio, the shop that helped teach Hollywood how to move from puppets to pixels, has announced that it is closing. Laika is now the only American studio still investing nine figures in the art form, and it exists largely because Phil Knight’s Nike fortune has absorbed losses that would have shuttered almost any other operation.

Laika’s previous film, “Missing Link,” grossed $17 million domestically in 2019. It spent seven years making the follow-up.

Travis Knight is Phil Knight’s son and Laika’s CEO. Nepotism, by its usual definition, can buy access.

But the Knights have used their resources to pursue stop motion at a time when other shops are turning off the lights. That’s using your powers for good.

Travis Knight knows what’s at stake. “We’ve tried to keep the art form alive for over 20 years now,” he told Variety after a “Wildwood” screening at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

He added, “Art needs advocacy. It wears its humanity openly.

It deserves to stay alive.” This is where the Academy could make a difference. The Academy has long treated animation as a separate lane, even as the medium has produced some of cinem

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