Coraline News

Average stories come and go, but ones with a valuable message live on. The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, for example, find countless screen adaptations.

LAIKA, Inc., the Portland-based animation studio whose first feature film, "Coraline," has been a critical and box office success, has appointed Gary Raksis to the post of Chief Financial Officer of the company.

The Cinema Audio Society has tapped 'Coraline' helmer Henry Selick to receive its lifetime achievement award.

Eight new releases this week! Three local films, a 3D remake, a horror movie, a french offering and two indies are out in the buenos aires theatres.

Other studios either use 3D to enhance already superior films or attempt to hide mediocrity.

A few days ago I sat down with director Henry Selick for a very extensive interview.A While I spoke to him earlier this year before "Coraline" got released, with Focus Features trying to get "Coraline" nominated for Best Animated Feature Selick has been talking to journalists and I was lucky enough to land a spot.A While we touched on "Coraline", ...

Other studios either use 3D to enhance already superior films or attempt to hide mediocrity.

Greg Kinnear, left, and Ricky Gervais star in "Ghost Town," a family friendly film featuring ghosts and a man who can see them.

How else can you explain the fact that two years down the road from our first staffer survey of all-time favorite Halloween horror movies, several of the same titles remain on the list? A total of 10 fearful souls here in the office participated in this year's survey, with the results demonstrating a spooky trend: M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth ...

SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE: If you are expecting an "Alice in Wonderland"-esque fairytale, you are in for a creepy surprise.

Film fans who enjoy watching things pop off the screen should prepare for a 3-D visual assault.

Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they're surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.

The Royal Tenenbaums director's Roald Dahl adaptation a ' starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep a ' is full of his trademark wry dialogue, whimsical characters and quirky visual cues.

The first holiday of autumn. Leaves begin to turn red, orange and brown. The air begins to turn cooler.

A modern fairytale which has the dark shades of Corpse Bride. While not as scary as some critics suggested when it was released in cinemas, it still has enough moments for parents of younger children to be wary of.

Scarecrow has two filmed adaptations of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are." One is Scholastic's version, which combines animation with music and narration to bring the classic storybook to life.

Considering Hollywood's dismal track record of adapting classic kids lit -- How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the Cat in the Hat should have filled moviegoers with joy, not left them with scars -- it's easy to forget that sometimes filmmakers actually get it right.

A witty script, brilliantly animated with stop motion techniques and wonderfully voiced by a cast led by George Clooney and Meryl Streep make quirky director Wes Anderson's first foray into 'toons a major winner and a total delight.

To be clear, Wes Anderson did not set out to direct his new movie via e-mail. ¶ Even if that's precisely how the writer-director's stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl's beloved children's book "Fantastic Mr.

Ken Loach's name may not spring to mind when pitching a feelgood fantasy football comedy, but Looking for Eric is the director's most jovially enjoyable film to date.