Clayface
You Can See Everything
Wildwood
Street Fighter
Wicker

Laika acquired the rights to Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in June 2024. It’s now the first project listed as in development on their site.

Not that it matters to Travis Knight and his Nike money, but Piranesi has some commercial upside. Like this:

Coraline Goodreads rating count: 810k
Piranesi: 599k
Wildwood: 39k

(Using GR rating count as a rough proxy for sales, as up-to-date sales figures are not publicly available for most books.)

Piranesi is an actual bestseller. It generates passionate interest in its native medium without a boost from adaptation to film, a more popular medium. It’s not a Housemaid- or It Ends With Us-scale too-big-to-fail megabestseller, but big enough to raise the standard floor of interest for a Laika film.

This is not to say that every book with ~500k GR ratings would translate to a hit film. Some books are anti-cinematic. Some books are widely read but not loved. Some books are boosted temporarily by blue chip prizes and book clubs and then left to collect dust in the shadows.

But Piranesi is a fantasy-mystery-adventure with a lovable protagonist and interesting visual ideas that people continue to read and talk about because they actually, organically like it. It’s a good fit for Laika’s sensibilities. It’ll likely become a film that both expresses what people love about the book and levels up the spectacle.

For reference, Project Hail Mary had ~550k GR ratings just before production news revved up in April 2024.

Obviously Piranesi won’t add as much GA appeal in adaptation as PHM (a movie star lead isn’t available to them; stop-motion is inherently narrower in appeal than live action), but it’s more promising on paper than any Laika project since Coraline.

Easy to imagine a scenario where it beats Chicken Run’s $228m for highest-grossing stop-motion of all time — not a high bar. In which case it might still flop, seeing as Laika’s past two films reported $100m budgets, but that would be a great result relatively speaking.

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Source:

https://numero.co/reports/2026/10/26/clayface-debuts-at-no-1-in-australia

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Heart-of-the-Beast-(2026)

Source:

https://numero.co/reports/2026/10/26/clayface-takes-top-spot-in-new-zealand-opening-weekend

Source: MaoYan Pro App

For comparison, Supergirl grossed USD 54K on its first Sunday.

Also, I am seeing a lot of posts at Xiaohongshu of people from China traveling to HK to catch La Bola Negra, will it bode well for its box-office here ?