The Morning Watch: 'Cruella' Featurette Looks At Fierce Fashions, 'Coraline' Book Comparison & More
In this edition, check out a Cruella fashion featurette, see how the Coraline movie compares to Neil Gaiman's book, and more.
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'The Nightmare Before Christmas' Villain Oogie Boogie Caused A Major Creative Clash With Tim Burton
The Nightmare Before Christmas writer found Oogie Boogie racist as depicted in the stop-motion animated classic from Henry Selick and Tim Burton.
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Key And Peele Reuniting For Netflix Stop-Motion Movie By 'Coraline' Director Henry Selick
Netflix's Wendell and Wild will reunite comedy duo Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele for the first time since Key and Peele ended for a stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick of Coraline fame.
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'Little Nightmares' TV Show Coming From Henry Selick And The Russo Brothers
Joe and Anthony Russo are producing the Little Nightmares TV Show. Henry Selick, the visionary director behind Coraline, will direct the pilot and more.
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Key And Peele Team With 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Director For Your Next Favorite Movie
Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick is teaming up with comedy duo Key and Peele for a new stop-motion animated film called Wendell and Wild.
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Breaking: 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' Is A Halloween Movie, Not A Christmas Movie Says Director
Director Henry Selick ended years of debate by confirming the Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween movie status, saying that it's an October movie first.
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Henry Selick Directing Live-Action Film 'A Tale Dark And Grimm'
While best known as a director of stop-motion animation (James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline) Henry Selick has also dabbled in live-action. There are the live-action scenes in James and the Giant Peach, for example, and his follow-up feature, Monkeybone. Now Kamala Pictures and FilmNation have set Selick to direct the…
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First Look At Henry Selick's 'The Shadow King;' Voice Cast Includes Brendan Gleeson And Jeffrey Tambor
Henry Selick's stop-motion animation Shademaker hit a massive roadblock last year when Disney backed out of the project, but happily it turned out not to be dead so much as stalled. K5 International got things going again this week when it decided to back the project (now titled The Shadow King) and bring it to…
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Henry Selick Gets New Backers For 'The Shadow King'
Last year we got the disappointing news that Henry Selick's next stop-motion animated film had been canceled by Disney. But there's good news: the film has come back to life, via a new producer and financier. The picture is now called The Shadow King, and it follows a boy who learns to create shadows that…
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Laika Will Not Save Henry Selick Cancelled Disney Movie [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Looks like Selick won't head back to Laika after all. According to Oregon Live, who spoke with an unnamed "person direct knowledge of Laika's thinking," the filmmaker did indeed meet with the studio. However, the talks went nowhere and Laika will not fund its former director's project. Thanks to /Film reader ThumBlister for the tip.…
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Disney Backs Out Of Production On Henry Selick's Latest Animated Film
Henry Selick has two films set up at Disney: an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, and a film being created by his new studio Shademaker Productions, of which we know relatively little. That is, he had two films set up at Disney; the Mouse has decided to pass on the Shademaker film, while…
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'Coraline' Director Henry Selick To Direct Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book'
Briefly: Yesterday we told you two things: one, that Disney had picked up Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and would make development of a feature based on the book a priority. And two, that Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and another Neil Gaiman book adaptation, Coraline, has been consulting with Disney and…
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Henry Selick's New Stop-Motion Movie Will Be Released By Disney
Over a year ago Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline, formed a new animation studio in San Francisco. At the time, he was said to be working on "great, scary films for young ‘uns with a small, tight-knit crew," and the outfit was pulling together talent…
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Release Dates: 'The Hunger Games' Sequel Scheduled; 'Parker' And New Henry Selick Film Also Dated
This year might be the point where studio reliance on tentpole films finally got out of hand. We've seen Sony schedule a date for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man -- that's a sequel to a film that isn't even close to finished, and which, consequently, no one has seen. And now Lionsgate has staked…
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New Studio From 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Director Making Scary Animated Films For Kids
Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline, is at the head of a new animation studio in San Francisco. Shademaker Productions, previously called Cinderbiter Productions, is pulling together talent now for its first film, a movie also called Shademaker, and there are already some impressive names involved…
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Coraline/Nightmare Before Christmas Director Henry Selick Returns To Disney/Pixar
Henry Selick, the Oscar-nominated stop-motion animation director of Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Monkeybone,will be returning to Walt Disney Pictures. Selick began his animation career at the mouse house in the 1970's, and will be returning to the Burbank-based studio in an exclusive long-term deal to make films for…
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
As I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox and gradually sensed the darkness of the theater lose out to the autumn-colored, classy, stop motion shenanigans on screen, I began to accept that every silhouette in the audience---fat and small, rich and me---was dressed in ship-shape, semi-formal attire. I pictured moms silently imagining themselves speaking in snooty English…
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Coraline Director Henry Selick Leaves Laika
I really want Laika to be the next Pixar. I know that is such a bold statement to make, especially after only one movie. But I feel like the animation studio possesses all the ingredients. Their first feature film, the groundbreaking 3D stop-motion animated film Coraline, was not only critically acclaimed, but also a financial…
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Laika Scraps Computer Animated Feature Plans
Animation Studio Laika, best known for the 3D stop-motion animated feature adaptation of Coraline, laid off 63 employees in its computer animation department. Laika was originally setup as an animation studio which would produce both stop-motion and computer animated feature films. But Laika has decided that they would rather specialize in stop-motion animated projects. Before…
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/Filmcast Ep. 37 - Coraline (GUEST: Steve/Frosty From Collider)
In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley share reflections from New York Comic-Con, evaluate the merits of Andrew Niccol's directorial/writing career, and contemplate a future full of board-game-to-movie adaptations. Special guest Steve Weintraub (AKA Frosty) from Collider joins us this evening. Tune in next Monday night to Slashfilm's live…
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Trivia: Disney Wanted To Make A Computer Animated Nightmare Before Christmas 2
Coraline director Henry Selick tells cinecon that at one point Disney had been considering making a sequel to his 1993 stop-motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas, but they wanted to make it using computer animation. "A few years back, Disney spoke to me and the sad thing was at the time, they said, 'If…
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GeekBomb: A Brief History Of Stop-Motion Animation
Editor's Note: This is the debut post by Kevin Kelly, who will be offering his expertise in geekdom in a new /Film daily blog feature called GeekBomb. Welcome Kevin to /Film! Neil Gaiman's Coraline opens this weekend, and it's directed by Henry Selick, one of the few modern masters of stop-motion animation. Although he was…
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Coraline Miniatures From SIGGRAPH 2008
/Film reader Jerry K sent us photos from SIGGRAPH of miniatures on display from Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. As always, click to enlarge.
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Behind The Scenes Of Coraline
Rotten Tomatoes got their hands on a behind the scenes featurette for Henry Selick's big screen 3D adaptation of Coraline. Based on Neil Gaiman's short children's novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has…
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