{"id":671763,"date":"2026-05-15T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671763\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:58:12","slug":"wildwood-trailer-proves-a-massive-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671763\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wildwood&#8221; Trailer Proves A Massive Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wildwood-trailer-proves-a-massive-hit.jpg\" data-caption=\"LAIKA Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wildwood-trailer-proves-a-massive-hit.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"wildwood-trailer-proves-a-massive-hit\"\/><\/a>LAIKA Studios<\/p>\n<p>The first trailer for LAIKA Studios\u2019 \u201cWildwood\u201d launched yesterday morning and has become one of the biggest animated trailer launches of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ToonHive\/status\/2055093230199320894\" rel=\"nofollow\">ToonHive<\/a> reports that the preview has now surpassed 100 million views across platforms, including over 70 million on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n<p>The project marks the company\u2019s sixth feature following \u201cCoraline,\u201d \u201cParaNorman,\u201d \u201cThe Boxtrolls,\u201d \u201cKubo and the Two Strings\u201d and \u201cMissing Link\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Knight directs the film from a script by Chris Butler (\u201cParaNorman,\u201d \u201cMissing Link\u201d), based on the novel by Colin Meloy.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland-set story follows Prue McKeel who, along with her best friend Curtis, enters a hidden and enchanted forest cultivated by original settlers known as the<br \/>impassable wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>The woods want to keep people away from whatever secrets are hiding inside, including her baby brother Mac, who has been taken by a murder of crows and a mysterious woman named Alexandra into the forest\u2019s depths.<\/p>\n<p>Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amanda Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits and Richard E. Grant lend their voices to the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWildwood\u201d is set for release in cinemas on October 23rd.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAIKA Studios The first trailer for LAIKA Studios\u2019 \u201cWildwood\u201d launched yesterday morning and has become one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-671763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}