Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy-horror film written and directed by Henry Selick based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane. It was released in U.S. theaters on February 6, 2009 by Focus Features after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival.
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Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy-horror film written and directed by Henry Selick based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane. It was released in U.S. theaters on February 6, 2009 by Focus Features after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival, and received critical acclaim. It made USD 16. 85 million during opening weekend, ranking third at the box office, and by the end of its run had grossed over USD 124 million worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing stop- motion film of all time after Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run. It won Annie Awards for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production, Best Character Design in an animated Feature Production and Best Production Design in a Feature Film. It also received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe Award forbest Animated Feature Film, and won the Golden Globe for best animated feature film. The movie is about a girl named Coraline who finds an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home. Coraline is unaware that the alternative world contains a dark and sinister secret, and is eventually forced to return to the real world to find out what has happened to her parents.
The story ends with Coraline finding out that her parents have been kidnapped by the spirits of the Other World. It is based on Gaiman’s 2002 novel, The Sandman, which was adapted into a film by Laika as its first feature film, and was released on February 8, 2009. The soundtrack was released by Laikas on September 14, 2009, and has been released in select cinemas worldwide. The DVD and Blu-ray versions of the film were released on September 21, 2009 and September 22, 2009 respectively. The Blu-Ray and DVD versions of Coraline were released in the UK on September 28, 2008, and the US on September 29, 2008. The UK versions were released a week later on September 30, 2008 and the UK versions on September 31, 2008 respectively. In the US, the DVD and blu-ray editions of the movie have been released on October 1, 2008; the UK releases on October 2, 2007; the US release on October 3, 2007. The US releases the DVD on October 4, 2007, and Europe on October 5, 2007 . The U.K. releases the film on October 7, 2007 and the European release on November 6, 2007 (the UK release date is October 8, 2007). The UK release is the same day as the UK release of the UK version, but the US releases it on October 9, 2008 (the European release is a day later.
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