Coraline is a 2008 animated stop-motion fantasy film based on Neil Gaiman's novella of the same name.
Laika Entertainment House (formerly Vinton Studios) has funded the film with around $50 to $70 million. It will be animated and co-directed by Henry Selick and Mike Cachuela and is scheduled to be released in theaters on January 16, 2009.
It is the first stop-motion animation to be shot stereoscopically with a dual digital camera rig for digital 3-D exhibition. New tools are being developed which will give the stop-motion creators the same flexibility as CGI animators, making it possible to push objects forward and back in postblank">http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962958.html?categoryid=2222&cs=1. The facial expressions of the characters are based on replacement animation, and are first done frame by frame on a computer in 3D, each version then printed out as a separate face on a 3D scanner before being attached on the character. _Dakota Fanning will star as the voice of Coraline. Teri Hatcher will lend her voice to the roles of both Coraline's Mother and her Other Mother. Ian McShane will voice Mr. Bobinski, a beet-eating Russian giant who lives upstairs from Coraline in her alternate reality.
Focus Features will distribute the film. The soundtrack will be provided by the rock group They Might Be Giants. blank">YouTube video of Neil Gaiman. Accessed Dec 5, 2007.
Coraline appeared at _Comic-Con 2007.
On December 22, 2007, Neil Gaiman put up a sneak preview of some early but not quite final footage of the movie.
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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 flat leads to another world, with another mother, and another father. Written by Scott Call
"Coraline, An Animated Ghost Story" Coraline Jones is bored and unhappy in her new home with its strange neighbors both upstairs and down. Then she discovers a secret door to a better version of her life, a world created by her Other Mother to delight and entertain her and fill her with delicious meals. There's just one "small thing" she'll need to do if she wants to stay in this magical place forever. Written by CHS
