Coraline

Coraline (2009)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Release date

2009-02-05

Country

United States

Production

Laika Entertainment, Pandemonium

Genre

Animation, Family, Fantasy

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$185 860 104

Website

https://www.laika.com/our-films/coraline

Director

Henry Selick

Actors

Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane, Aankha Neal, George Selick
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Scenario

Producer

Harry Linden, Henry Selick, Bill Mechanic, Claire Jennings, Mary Sandell, Alex Heineman, Michael Zoumas

Operator

Pete Kozachik

Composer

Bruno Coulais

Artist

Morgan Hay

Audition

Linda LaMontagne, Cathy Kalmenson

Editing

Ronald Sanders, Christopher Murrie
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• The film is based on Neil Gaiman's children's novella "Coraline" (2002).
• In the film, Coraline's father is wearing Monkeybone slippers. "Monkeybone" is a film directed by Henry Selick.
• It is the longest stop-motion animated film ever made. It is also the first stop-motion animated film created in 3D.
• 450 people worked on the creation of this film, including animators, designers, and technicians.
• The profile on the dollar given as a tip belongs to the director.
• A total of 28 Coraline dolls were made, the largest of which reaches 25 cm in height.
• The snow was made from super glue and baking soda.
• Filming took place in an indoor space of approximately 13,000 square meters.
• All objects and characters in Coraline were 3D printed. Three 3D printers worked non-stop for over eighteen months.
• Mr. Bobinsky wears a medal for his work in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.
• In a theater scene in the "Other World," one of the elderly actresses portrays Venus against a backdrop grotesquely copied from Sandro Botticelli's famous painting "The Birth of Venus."
• The animated background in the scene where Coraline meets the freed ghost children closely resembles the night sky in Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night."
• In the living room of the Jones family's apartment in the "Other World," three oval portraits with black silhouettes of children are visible on one wall above a dresser with a vase – the ghosts of whom Coraline encountered.
• When Coraline first enters her bedroom in the "Other World," the children in the photograph with her friends have normal eyes. Later, their eyes become buttons, like everyone else's in this world.
• The film is based on the children’s story “Coraline” (2002) by Neil Gaiman.
• When Coraline first enters her bedroom in the 'Other World', the eyes of her friends in the photograph are normal. Later, the eyes become buttons, like everyone else's in this world.