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This summer will be scifi and geek heaven for moviegoers when flicks filled with superheroes, aliens, vampires, fairy tales and zombies hit the screen.

In the middle of February, I was able to visit LAIKA Studios in Hillsboro, Oregon to get an early look at their upcoming 3D stop-motion movie ParaNorman .A As a big stop-motion fan, it was incredibly cool to get a behind-the-scenes look at how it all comes together, and to see where they made their last film, Coraline .A While I assumed the process ... (more)

If you read my report from the set of ParaNorman that was posted yesterday, you know that Laika Studios is doing things unlike anyone else in the film industry.

"Never work with children or animals" is an old W.C. Fields chestnut that, for a while in the '90s and '00s, everyone outside of children's entertainment seemed to be holding sacred.

Alright, kids! Time to settle in for a moment and get ready to see some new eye candy from three of this year's most anticipated genre flicks, Prometheus, ParaNorman, and the Chernobyl Diaries .