The Boxtrolls

Name: The Boxtrolls
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Released: 2014-09-10
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Toni Collette

When troubles strikes friends stack together

The Boxtrolls (2014)

Timing: 1:37 (97 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

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Release date

2014-09-10

Country

United States

Production

Laika Entertainment

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$109 285 033

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Director

Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable

Actors

Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, Simon Pegg
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Scenario

Producer

Travis Knight, David Bleiman Ichioka

Operator

John Ashlee Prat

Composer

Dario Marianelli

Artist

Paul Lasaine, August Hall, Michel Breton

Audition

Mary Hidalgo

Editing

Edie Ichioka
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Short description

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

What's left behind the scenes

The cartoon is based on Alan Snow’s book “Where the Wild Things Are”.
55 varieties of prop cheese, meticulously copied from real cheese wheels, were used to decorate the film's sets.
The dolls' faces were assembled from parts printed on 3D printers, giving animators quick access to an incredible number of facial expressions. The main character, for example, had 1.4 million potential facial expressions.
When Egg first meets his father, their dialogue almost verbatim repeats the conversation from the cartoon “The Lion King” (1994) between Simba and Rafiki.
When Eggs first meets his father, the dialogue between them almost verbatim repeats the conversation from the 1994 animated film "The Lion King" between Simba and Rafiki.