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• Acclaimed Flop: The film failed to reach $70 million on a $60 million budget, despite the fact that it's beloved by both critics and the audiences alike.
• All-Star Cast: The cast are mostly big names, even those that did the minor characters, like George Takei, Charlize Theron, and Ralph Fiennes, just to name a few.
• Box Office Bomb: Despite its' near-universal acclaim, Kubo is one of 2016 Summer Bomb Buster. The production only budget is $60 million, $100 million (including advertising). Box office: $69.9 million.
• The Sisters' feathered capes include 183 feathers, all individually handmade and kept together with piano wire and woven into ball joints of the spine.
  • Each feather can be slide over without getting stuck.
  • There's also the 861 laser-etched and uniquely sized feathers, which gave it's raven cloak appearance.
• The Chinese's Zŭxiān bǎohù, a belief that one's ancestors will protect them in a form that involves bringing charms, talismans, or familiars to life, which what Monkey is.
• Kubo and the Two Strings took five years to make.
• Fake Nationality: Most of the cast aren't Japanese. Ralph Fiennes attempts to bury his English born accent when portraying the Moon King, the results: Overpronouncing his Rs.
  • McConaughey had to practice speaking, without his trademark Texas drawl.
• Hey, It's That Voice! Seems that the Warden decided to have a quiet life after getting defeated by Katara and some earthbenders in a prison uprising.
  • The Moon King was a British General and Lord, who didn't know that James Armistead was a patriot spy, surrendered in Yorktown, and lost the American Revolution.
  • Beetle played for the baseball team the California Angels, who needed a miracle for their losing streak.
  • Hashi is an aristocratic patron, who bids for against a rival for Sayuri's virginity.
  • Kameyo also cares for another fatherless boy, er, man.
  • Turns out that Kubo is the youngest Stark son.
  • Miane works for the Shredder as his hitman.
  • Miho used to serve tea as one of the Yukimoto Teahouse Geisha.
• In Memoriam: This film was dedicated to the late Shigeru Mizuki, the creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro.
• This is Travis Knight's first film.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Matthew McConaughey wanted to be in KatTS, so there can be a character that his kids can enjoy. Plus, his kids love the plucky comic reliefs in movies.
  • He went even further, while McConaughey was preparing for his role as Beetle, he practice different voices in front of his kids. Asking for advice for which is the funniest.
• Laika uses both Stop Motion and Computer animation to bring Kubo and the Two Strings to life.
• Puppet Show: The yokai puppet for the "Garden of Eyes" is six feet tall.
  • The creatures' eyeballs are made of a metal mesh, which covers the whole sphere. The pupils are LED lights.
  • 66 thousand 3D are printed for the characters.
  • Hayns, one of LAIKA's supervisor of the puppet lab considers the Sisters as one of the highlight of her career. These puppets are the "Most proud of in her entire career."
• The Hall of Bones took 360 sq feet of the set.
• Laika teamed up with Stratasys to make the best puppets, Stratasys is a 3D printing company.
• LAIKA made a full body fur suit for Monkey. It's the first of it's kind, since it's comprised of silicon, which cut in a tattered and cut row fashion.
• The human characters have real human hair, but it's stylized with silicone rubber.
• The LAIKA animators attended a origami and kirigami convention, just to become experts in the art form.
• Voices in One Room: Averted. The voice acting was recorded first and individually. The actors record saying their lines differently, until they got the correct one.