The nice folks releasing the Coraline DVD today (based on the award winning book by Neil Gaiman, doncha know) have given us a free copy of the DVD to give to a ComicMix reader. As we’re too dang busy between now and San Diego to grade essays on “why I should get the free DVD…
Not content with having a Newbury Award, the the top-debuting, wide-release, stop-motion film in movie history, and throngs of adoring fans dressed in black, now Neil Gaiman is trying for a Obie Award. Coraline the musical goes into previews on May 7 at the Lucille Lortel Theater, off-Broadway in Greenwich Village, where it will run…
If you were to ask ten people who directed Nightmare Before Christmas, it’s almost a guarantee that nine of them will come back with “Tim Burton” and those nine people would all be wrong. The film was actually directed by Henry Selick, who’s other works include James and the Giant Peach and Monkeybone. In Laika…
Writer/director Henry Selick gave Toon Zone an interview in preparation for the release of his stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. During the wide-ranging conversation, Selick nicely compared a book and a film, saying, “books have a kind of language with internal dialogue and things like that; how do you bring that to a…
A teaser has hit the ‘Net for Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, the animated feature film written and directed by Henry Selick and based on the Gaiman short story. The film, which tells the story of a young, bored girl named Coraline Jones who discovers that a bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to…
Neil Gaiman proudly presents, as an early Christmas present, the first Coraline footage to be released to the world. (It’s not really from me. Laika and Focus chose it and did all the hard work, the Web Goblin did all the building it in the background. I just claim the glory and bask in the…
