Coraline News

Selicka TMs Coraline leads the field going into the Annies, picking up 10 nominations including best film.

Will 'Coraline' have something to celebrate come awards season? The Oscar nominations are still a ways off, but the made-in-Portland animated feature "Coraline " snagged 10 Annie Award nominations Tuesday.

When the computer-generated, 3D animation train was chugging full steam ahead five years ago, filmmakers Wes Anderson and Henry Selick decided to hop off and walk in the other direction.

Young viewers of The Princess and the Frog won't give a croak that the marvelous new - adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios has been created using the same hand-drawn, 2-D techniques that entertained those viewers' Bambi -loving grandparents more than 65 years ago.

Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox is stop-motion animation film based on the Roald Dahl children's book of the same name.

Why has it taken movie studios so long to learn the Tim Burton lesson about children's movies? With "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," he definitively proved that kiddie classics belong in the hands of hipster pop surrealists.

Meryl Streep and Wes Anderson with some of their buddies from "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Writer-director Wes Anderson has given the world "Bottle Rocket," "Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited" and other gems.

Animated movies have been one of the year's major bright spots at the cineplex. Thanks to a new rule, the HFPA can nominate five , any one of which could break out to make the Oscar's list.

Lonely 10-year-old Coraline crawls through a forgotten door and discovers an alternate world with a much nicer mother than her grumpy real one.

Neil Gaiman, the author behind the surprise film hit Coraline, received "hate mail" for professing that Rudyard Kipling was one of his literary heroes.

The child actress, now 15, has gone from a dimpled cherub to an undead evildoer in New Moon .

Elvis Costello talks about his music and the second season of "Spectacle," his music talk show on the Sundance Channel.

Dakota Fanning, at 15, has more credits than most of the young stars of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" combined.

COMEBACK KID: 'Coraline' is just one of four stop-motion features released in 2009, indicating the revival of a lo-fi format made possible by high-tech cameras and digital post-production equipment.

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", ...