Tuesday, February 10
With a better than expected 3rd place performance and $16.3 million at the box office last weekend, Coraline surprised skeptics, but whether it did well enough to satisfy investors remains unclear. A lot is at stake for Laika Entertainment, a fledgling studio with dreams of one day rivaling Pixar in the animation world. Coraline is its first feature production and cost upwards of $35 million to make. Much of the money for this initial project ... [more]
With Coraline opening on Friday, reviews called the movie aimed at families "dark." Will audiences find Coraline to be too dark, especially for children? When ...[more]
In Coraline, a young girl discovers a secret door in her new home and finds an alternate world -- and life -- that appears better than the one she has. But as t...[more]
While doing press for Coraline, author Neil Gaiman heaped praise on the director chosen to adapt Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book into a movie, Neil Jordan. T...[more]
Still more than a week to go before Coraline debuts and already Neil Gaiman is getting another one of his books adapted for film. In an appearance on the Today...[more]
How many intriguing and imaginative angles can you find to promote a new movie? Even amid the avalanche of trailers, magical boxes, gothically illuminated lette...[more]
Three new trailers replete with dancing mice, flowers with childlike voices, and button eyes open more still more windows into the parallel universe of Coraline...[more]
Some walls in New York, DC, and Chicago have gotten a Coraline make-over with button-eyed portraits and otherworldly themes as part of the continuing quirky gue...[more]
From giving out secret boxes to releasing illuminated alphabet cards across the internet, the marketing campaign for Coraline has been a wonder unto itself. N...[more]
Ain't it Cool has just posted a very early review of Henry Selick's Coraline, which won't hit theaters until February 9, 2009. Word is that, unlike a lot of ad...[more]