![]() Coraline promises to do so, and is rescued by the Other Wybie, who helps her return home.Ĭoraline realizes the Beldam has kidnapped her parents, forcing her to return to the Other World. The ghosts explain that they can only be freed by retrieving the essences of their souls, which the Beldam has hidden throughout the Other World. After accepting the Beldam's offer to sew buttons over their eyes, she robbed them of their souls. There, the ghosts of past victims, including Wybie's great-aunt, tell Coraline how the Other Mother, whom they call the Beldam, used ragdolls of themselves to spy and lure them to the Other World. Horrified, Coraline tries to escape back to her world, but the Other Mother imprisons her in a room behind a mirror. On Coraline's third visit, the Other Mother offers to let her stay in the Other World permanently, in exchange for having buttons sewn over her eyes. Accompanied by the mute Other Wybie, she is entertained by the dimension's doppelgängers of her neighbors and meets the cat, who can traverse between the two worlds and speaks in the Other World. Coraline's neighbors Sergei Alexander Bobinsky, an eccentric Chernobyl liquidator-turned-gymnast who owns a mouse circus, and retired burlesque actresses April Spink and Miriam Forcible cryptically warn her about imminent danger.ĭespite the warnings, Coraline visits the Other World twice more. ![]() She returns home the next morning, where Wybie recounts the disappearance of his great-aunt. That night, a mouse leads Coraline back to the door, now a portal leading to a parallel universe, where Coraline meets her Other Mother and Father, button-eyed doppelgängers of her parents who appear more attentive and caring. The doll guides Coraline to a small door in her apartment with a bricked up wall behind it. Later, Wybie gives her a button-eyed ragdoll from his grandmother's trunk that eerily resembles Coraline. She meets the landlady's grandson, Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat, and a stray black cat. ![]() It has since developed a cult following in the years since its release.Ĭoraline Jones struggles to adapt to her new life after she and her workaholic parents move from Pontiac, Michigan, to the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon. The film won Annie Awards for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production, Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production and Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production, and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The film grossed $16.85 million during its opening weekend, ranking third at the box office, and by the end of its run had grossed over $124 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time after Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The film was theatrically released in the United States on Februby Focus Features after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival on February 5, and received critical acclaim. Bruno Coulais composed the film's musical score. Production of the stop-motion animation feature took place at a warehouse in Hillsboro, Oregon. To capture stereoscopy for the 3D release, the animators shot each frame from two slightly apart camera positions. His biggest influences were on the color palette, which was muted in reality and more colorful in the Other World, similar to The Wizard of Oz. Selick invited Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi to become the concept artist upon discovering his work, when looking for a design away from that of most animation. When Selick thought that a direct adaptation would lead to "maybe a 47-minute movie", the screenplay had some expansions, like the introduction of Wybie, who was not present in the original novel. ![]() ![]() Just as Gaiman was finishing his novella in 2002, he met Selick and invited him to make a film adaptation, as Gaiman was a fan of Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas. The film tells the story of its titular character discovering an idealized parallel universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains a dark and sinister secret. Produced by Laika as the studio's first feature film, it features the voice talents of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane. Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Henry Selick and based on Neil Gaiman's novella of the same name. ![]()
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