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Coraline [2009]

Tagline:

• Be careful what you wish for.
• An Adventure too Weird for Words
• The braver you are, the more you’ll see

Synopsis:

• Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.

Theatrical Release:

• 05 February 2009 (Portland International Film Festival)
• 06 February 2009 (United States)

Genre:

• Dark Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Animation

Director:

• Henry Selick

Screenplay:

• Henry Selick

Story:

• Neil Gaiman

Producers:

• Bill Mechanic
• Claire Jennings
• Henry Selick
• Mary Sandell
• Christopher Murrie
• Ronald Sanders

Cinematography/Editor/Choreographer:

• Pete Kozachik (Cinematography)
• Christopher Murrie (Editor)
• Ronald Sanders (Editor)

Studio / Production Company:

• LAIKA
• Pandemonium Films

Distribution Company:

• Focus Features (United States)
• Universal Pictures (International)

Language:

• English

Budget/Box Office:

• Budget: $60 million
• Box Office: $184.5 million

Period:

• Contemporary setting, early 2000s.

Place:

• The Pink Palace Apartments, Oregon.

Special Effects:

• Fonco Creative Services
• Gentle Giant Studios
• Mechinations

Animators:

• Travis Knight: Lead Animator
• Trey Thomas: Lead Animator

Composer:

• Bruno Coulais

Tracklist:

• End Credits
• Dreaming
• Installation
• Wybie
• Exploration
• Other Father Song, They Might Be Giants
• The Supper
• Bobinsky
• Fantastic Garden
• Coraline Fly
• Trap For The Mices
• Mice Circus
• Dreams Are Dangerous
• Sirens Of The Sea
• In The Bed
• Spink And Forcible
• It Was Fantastic
• Ghost Children
• Let’s Go
• Playing Piano
• Wybie That Talks
• Cocobeetles
• Alone
• Dangerous
• Reunion
• Coraline Despair
• The Theater
• The Famous Mister B
• You Know I Love You
• Mechanical Lullaby
• The Hand
• The Party

Based On:

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Achievements and Awards:

• Academy Awards
  • Best Animated Feature: Henry Selick (Nominated)
• American Film Institute Awards
  • Best 10 Movies (Won)
• Annie Awards
  • Best Animated Feature (Nominated)
  • Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production: Henry Selick (Nominated)
  • Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production: Dawn French (Nominated)
  • Best Music in an Animated Feature Production: Bruno Coulais (Won)
  • Best Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production: Travis Knight (Nominated)
  • Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production: Shane Prigmore, Shannon Tindle (Won)
  • Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production: Christopher Appelhans, Tadahiro Uesugi (Won)
  • Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production: Chris Butler (Nominated)
• BAFTA Awards
  • Best Animated Film (Nominated)
• British Academy Children’s Awards
  • Best Feature Film: Bill Mechanic, Henry Selick, Claire Jennings, Mary Sandell (Won)
• Golden Globe Awards
  • Best Animated Feature Film (Nominated)
• Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
  • Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film (Nominated)
• American Film Institute (AFI):
  • Top 10 - Movies of the Year

Iconic Quotes:

• Be careful what you wish for. - Coraline Jones
• I’m your Other Mother, silly. - Other Mother
• You probably think this world is a dream come true… but you’re wrong. - Cat
• _How can you walk away from something and then come towards it?_-Coraline
  _Walk around the world._-Cat
  _Small world._-Coraline
• _They say even the proudest spirit can be broken… with love._-Other Mother
• _You know that I love you._-Other Mother
  _You… have a really funny way of showing it._-Coraline
• _Don’t remember our names, but I 'member my true mommy._-Ghost Boy
• _Be clever, Miss. Even if you win, she’ll never let you go!_-Sweet Ghost Girl
• _You know, you could stay forever, if you want to. There’s one tiny thing we have to do first…_-Other Mother
• _So sharp, you won’t feel a thing…_-Other Father
• _T’ain’t all bad, miss. Thou art alive. Thou art still living._-Ghost Boy
• _I thought you’d like him more if he talked a little less. So I fixed him._-Other Mother

Quotes:

• A heart-stopping, stop-motion nightmare for the child lost in all of us. - AFI Awards
• A needle-sharp display of animated filmmaking - literate, subtle and sophisticated. - Film Critics

Fun Facts:

• Coraline was the first stop-motion animated feature to be originally filmed in 3D.
• The film required over 6,300 face replacements for Coraline alone.
• Neil Gaiman invited Henry Selick to adapt the novella after being impressed by his work on The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• The production took place in a warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon.
• The character designs were heavily influenced by Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi.
• The film’s color palette was designed to be muted in the real world and vibrant in the Other World.
• The animators shot each frame from two slightly apart camera positions to capture stereoscopy for the 3D release.
• The film has developed a cult following and is considered one of the greatest animated films of all time.
• The character Wybie was created specifically for the film.

Stars:

• Dakota Fanning as Coraline Jones
• Teri Hatcher as Mel Jones / Other Mother
• Jennifer Saunders as April Spink
• Dawn French as Miriam Forcible
• Keith David as Cat
• Ian McShane as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky
• John Hodgman as Charlie Jones / Other Father
• Robert Bailey Jr. as Wyborne “Wybie” Lovat