{"id":2093401,"date":"2025-10-15T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2093401"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:09:11","slug":"laikas-matt-levin-on-launching-live-action-and-taking-the-company-into-its-new-chapter-with-lord-and-miller-lulu-wang-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/laikas-matt-levin-on-launching-live-action-and-taking-the-company-into-its-new-chapter-with-lord-and-miller-lulu-wang-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Laika\u2019s Matt Levin on Launching Live-Action and Taking the Company Into Its \u2018New Chapter\u2019 With Lord and Miller, Lulu Wang and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Filmmakers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0520488\/\">Phil Lord<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0588087\/\">Christopher Miller<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2304675\/\">Lulu Wang<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3123612\/\">Jon Spaihts<\/a> have one thing in common \u2014 they\u2019ve all got projects lined up at Laika\u2019s live-action division.<\/p>\n<p>For 20 years, Laika has been synonymous with stop-motion projects, creating animated features such as \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1623288\/\">ParaNorman<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0327597\/\">Coraline<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4302938\/\">Kubo and the Two Strings<\/a>,\u201d but 2023 heralded a new change for the studio, the move into live action.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0505664\/\">Matt Levin<\/a>, president of Laika\u2019s live-action film and series division, joined the Oregon-based studio in 2023 to build on its legacy and contribute to this next chapter. \u201cIt\u2019s all coming from this very pure place of wanting to tell stories that are pushing boundaries and emotionally resonant and timeless, and advancing the craft and advancing the medium in some way,\u201d Levin says.<\/p>\n<p>The studio first announced plans back in 2021 after acquiring rights to adapt <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0003164\/\">John Brownlow<\/a>\u2019s novel \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8988748\/\">Seventeen<\/a>\u201d for the big screen. Back then, Laika&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Lulu Wang and Jon Spaihts have one thing in common \u2014 they\u2019ve all got projects lined up at Laika\u2019s live-action division. For 20 years, Laika has been synonymous with stop-motion projects, creating animated features such as \u201cParaNorman,\u201d \u201cCoraline\u201d and \u201cKubo and the Two Strings,\u201d but 2023 heralded a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2093401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Laikas-Matt-Levin-on-Launching-Live-Action-and-Taking-the-Company.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093403,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093401\/revisions\/2093403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}