Pixar, DreamWorks Animation and Fox Animation have come to rule the world of animated films with stories of talking toys (“Toy Story”), talking animals (“Madagascar”) and more talking animals (“Ice Age”). Each hit box-office gold again this summer, though Pixar did so with a Scottish princess instead of Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
But will kids show up en masse when zombies and stop-motion get thrown in the mix?
Chris Butler and Sam Fell, the filmmaking duo behind Focus Features’ “ParaNorman,” will soon find out. They’ve made a horror movie for kids, a mix, they say, of Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” and “The Goonies.”