Marking their third project together, LAIKA and Focus Features , the two companies behind the current Academy Award-nominated animated feature ParaNorman , announced today that LAIKA has begun production on The Boxtrolls . The new movie will be released nationwide by Focus on October 17th, 2014. Focus CEO James Schamus and LAIKA President & CEO Travis Knight made the announcement today. As on the previous animation collaborations ParaNorman and Coraline , Focus will hold worldwide distribution rights to The Boxtrolls , and Universal Pictures International will release the movie overseas (with eOne Distribution handling Canada). Coraline (2009) earned Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, and Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature Film; and was named one of the year’s 10 Best Films by the American Film Institute (AFI). In addition to its Academy Award nomination, ParaNorman (2012) is in the running for the BAFTA Awards’ animated feature prize. ParaNorman has won tw