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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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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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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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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