The Netflix alum will report back to Laika president and CEO Travis Knight.
Laika, the Portland-based animation studio behind films corresponding to Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, is increasing its live-action moviemaking plans with the hiring of Matt Levin within the newly-created place of president, live-action movie and sequence.
Levin served as director of unique impartial movie at Netflix from 2014 to 2022. Throughout that point, he oversaw growth and manufacturing of 25 movies together with the upcoming Gareth Evans’ actioner Havoc starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker and Timothy Olyphant; Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Pondering of Ending Issues starring Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley and Toni Collette; and the 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning I Don’t Really feel at Residence in This World Anymore from author/director Macon Blair. Levin introduced in general offers with Gareth Evans and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
At Laika, Levin will report back to president and CEO Travis Knight. “[Levin’s] distinctive management abilities, inventive sensitivity, and sharp storytelling thoughts will information our studio to the subsequent section of its evolution, and into thrilling new genres, media, and codecs,” mentioned Knight in a launched assertion. “At 17 years outdated, Laika is grunting our approach by means of the disaffected teenager stage of our growth. Matt’s gonna assist us develop into a correct grown-up.”
Laika is presently in manufacturing on sixth animated film, Wildwood, directed by Knight; and is creating its first live-action undertaking, an adaptation of John Brownlow’s novel Seventeen.
Mentioned Levin, “I’ve liked and admired Laika’s daring, unique, and ground-breaking animated movies because the studio got here on the scene. I’m excited to honor and construct on that legacy as we forge forward into live-action movies and sequence on this promising new chapter.”