Wildwood Limited Edition SteelBook — LAIKA's Stop-Motion Epic Gets a 4K UHD + Blu-ray Collector's Release from Shout! Factory

The makers of Coraline just released their most ambitious film yet — and it's already getting the SteelBook treatment.

Wildwood Limited Edition SteelBook — 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Shout! Factory

LAIKA is back. Wildwood, the Portland studio's handcrafted stop-motion fantasy, opened in US theaters on October 23, 2026 — and Shout! Factory (Shout! Studios) has already announced a Limited Edition SteelBook for collectors: a two-disc set pairing the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions of the film in SteelBook packaging.

Based on Colin Meloy's bestselling novel, Wildwood follows Prue McKeel, a Portland teenager whose baby brother is snatched by crows and carried into the Impassable Wilderness — the forbidden forest no one is allowed to enter. Prue follows him in, and finds a hidden world of talking animals, warring factions, and a dowager governess with plans of her own. It's a proper old-school quest story, told frame by frame in LAIKA's signature hand-built style.

An All-Star Voice Cast

This is one of the most stacked voice casts LAIKA has ever assembled:

• Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Prue McKeel
• Carey Mulligan as Alexandra, the Dowager Governess
• Jacob Tremblay as Curtis Mehlberg
• Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Tom Waits and Richard E. Grant

The film runs 2 hours 12 minutes — LAIKA's longest and most epic feature to date — and the early word is extraordinary: Collider reports it at 99% with critics and 97% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider's own review calling it LAIKA's masterpiece.

What's Known So Far

• Format: Limited Edition SteelBook — 4K UHD + Blu-ray, 2 discs
• Studio: Shout! Factory / Shout! Studios (US release)
• Release date: TBA — not yet announced
• Final SteelBook artwork: not yet revealed (the art above is the film's official key art)
• Bonus features: not yet announced — expect details closer to the street date

Release Date & Pre-Orders

Shout! Factory hasn't set a street date yet, but pre-orders are live now on Amazon US. LAIKA's previous Shout! Factory SteelBooks (Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls) are shelf staples for animation collectors, and limited SteelBooks of a brand-new theatrical release tend to be the editions everyone hunts later. Current pricing is shown on the Amazon product page — check it there before ordering, as pre-order prices can change before release.

Pre-Order the Wildwood Limited Edition SteelBook on Amazon

Why This One Belongs on the Shelf

Stop-motion this ambitious doesn't come around often — Wildwood is five years of hand-built puppets, miniature forests, and thousands of individually posed frames, from the studio that made Coraline a modern classic. A 4K UHD presentation is exactly how that craftsmanship deserves to be seen at home, and the SteelBook is the version to own. We'll update this post the moment Shout! Factory reveals the final artwork, extras, and street date.

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