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Laika’s ‘Boxtrolls’ Headed to Comic-Con 2014

Focus Features, Laika and ‘The Boxtrolls’ are headed to Comic-Con for a highly-anticipated Hall H Panel, “Eat Like THE BOXTROLLS” food truck experience, and more.

With larger-than-life personalities, The Boxtrolls Fish, Shoe, and their co-squares are being introduced with their own character posters.

Focus Features, LAIKA and The Boxtrolls are headed to Comic-Con for a highly-anticipated Hall H Panel, “Eat Like THE BOXTROLLS” food truck experience, and more. See below for full details:

FRIDAY, JULY 25

#EatLikeTheBoxtrolls
Bug Chef David George Gordon will dare you to EAT LIKE THE BOXTROLLS as he cooks up some of his famous bug and insect edible creations
2:00PM- 4:00PM
Location: Petco Park

2:00PM-3:00PM Univision Radio will be hosting the experience. Stop by for a limited edition signed Fish poster by Isaac Hempstead Wright. 

3:00PM-4:00PM Nerdist will be hosting the experience. Stop by for a limited edition signed Shoe poster by Isaac Hempstead Wright. 

SATURDAY, JULY 26

THE BOXTROLLS COMIC-CON PANEL
1:30PM-2:30PM
Location: HALL H / Convention Center

Participants: Sir Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable, and Producer and Lead Animator,and LAIKA president and CEO, Travis Knight

Moderated by Fandango’s Dave Karger

#EatLikeTheBoxtrolls
Location: Petco Park

2:00PM-3:00PM: Cinema Blend will be hosting the experience. Stop by for a limited edition signed Oil Can poster by Isaac Hempstead Wright. 

3:00PM-4:00PM: Coming Soon will be hosting the experience. Stop by for a limited edition signed Shoe poster by Isaac Hempstead Wright. 

Keep an eye out for life-sized Boxtrolls roaming Comic Con. Snap your pic and tweet using #Theboxtrolls

Opening nationwide Friday, September 26th, The Boxtrolls is a family event movie from Laika, the creators of Coraline and ParaNorman, that introduces audiences to a new breed of family -- The Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright of Game of Thrones) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley), comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, “into the light,” where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie (Elle Fanning of Maleficent). Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs’ family. Based upon the book Here Be Monsters, by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable and is MPAA-rated PG.

Source: Focus Features

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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.