David Strick Behind the Scenes of ‘Coraline’
On the set of Coraline (David Strick)
One of the last cool things the LA Times does is its Hollywood Backlot feature that consists of behind-the-scenes photographs from Hollywood photographer David Strick. It almost makes up for ghastly Elizabeth Snead. Not quite, but almost.
This week, Strick takes a look at Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Gaiman’s best-selling children’s book tells the story of a young girl (voiced by Dakota Fanning in the film) who discovers a secret door to a parallel universe.
Originally on LiC’s list of anticipated films for 2008, Coraline is now scheduled for February 2009.
Filed under: Previews
Tags: Coraline, Dakota Fanning, David Strick, Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman
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They’ve moved it to the dead zone of February? Bah, it appears they’ve lost interest in trying to market this movie. Damn.
I’m still looking forward to it, and now I’m looking forward to it even more.
I’m not taking it as a bad sign since there is precident for off-the-beaten-track films to do well in the Winter. It might even have some room to breathe outside of the holiday season.
I heard it is still opening in 08 for Oscar consideration, and is going wide in Feb. So technically that would make it a 08 movie. I could just be talking crap though.
No Nick, you’re probably right, but that technique usually only works for the foreign and documentary categories and typically works against nominations and votes in other categories. The nominations and voting for docs and foreign films kind of exist outside the pale of the Oscar mainstream. A movie like Coraline would need to be seen to have any chance in technical categories, especially Best Animated Film and especially when it would be going up against Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E. Critical acclaim will help it, but that’s still a huge uphill battle.
But I’m not paid to figure this stuff out and I assume people far wiser than I are.
If Nick’s right, then it seems to me to be a pretty standard thing to do. I didn’t see “There Will Be Blood” until February of this year.
I’m like Joel, looking forward to it in all good hope.
I don’t know from release dates. I just want to see it.