Anyone else going to see Henry Sellick's latest film Coraline that's based on a really creepy book by Neil Gaiman and was adapted into a graphic novel published by HarperCollins?
I'm really hoping it does well in theaters. It was directed on a budget of 60mil (which is 20% less than Monkeybone but nearly 2x as much as James and the Giant Peach and almost 3x as much as Nightmare Before Christmas) which not only makes it the most expensive 100% stop motion animated film but it's also the longest at 101 minutes. I'm pretty sure there's no musical scenes as well and this film is pretty much a horror/drama/dark comedy (at least the book was).
Selick's an animator at heart and I'm glad there's no live action/animation cross in this because the script he had to work with in Monkeybone was terrible and everyone hated the live action scenes in James. Corpse Bride and Nightmare did phenomenal (but probably because of "hot topic" appeal and Burton's name being pasted everywhere) but Neil Gaiman is a pretty popular writer and I have my finger's crossed!
Maybe... maybe people will take animation more seriously?
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lol
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EDIT: Looking over facts and figures... stop-motion is ridiculously cheap. Corpse Bride cost as much to produce as that piece of crap Delgo and it's only slightly more expensive than Toy Story, the first full CGI film which came out 15 years ago (and if you count inflation, their production costs are about the same). It's also a relatively unsaturated market. I don't know why producers aren't jumping all over it.
I'm really hoping it does well in theaters. It was directed on a budget of 60mil (which is 20% less than Monkeybone but nearly 2x as much as James and the Giant Peach and almost 3x as much as Nightmare Before Christmas) which not only makes it the most expensive 100% stop motion animated film but it's also the longest at 101 minutes. I'm pretty sure there's no musical scenes as well and this film is pretty much a horror/drama/dark comedy (at least the book was).
Selick's an animator at heart and I'm glad there's no live action/animation cross in this because the script he had to work with in Monkeybone was terrible and everyone hated the live action scenes in James. Corpse Bride and Nightmare did phenomenal (but probably because of "hot topic" appeal and Burton's name being pasted everywhere) but Neil Gaiman is a pretty popular writer and I have my finger's crossed!
Maybe... maybe people will take animation more seriously?
*** SPOILERS ***
lol
*** END SPOILERS ***
EDIT: Looking over facts and figures... stop-motion is ridiculously cheap. Corpse Bride cost as much to produce as that piece of crap Delgo and it's only slightly more expensive than Toy Story, the first full CGI film which came out 15 years ago (and if you count inflation, their production costs are about the same). It's also a relatively unsaturated market. I don't know why producers aren't jumping all over it.
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