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"Coraline" Director Henry Selick on His Latest Film

Editor's Note: Henry Selick is the director of several acclaimed films including The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and most recently, Coraline. (He also created visual effects for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.) Below, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie Coraline came to be. --Leah Intro So the Coraline DVD is coming out on July 21st, in three different flavors--plain vanilla, with sprinkles, and dipped in blu-ray--and I was invited to do this “guest blog” for Amazon. It’s a one-shot deal, no updates or follow-ups, and my orders are to tell the home-viewing audience something they don’t already know. I figure if I say enough, there’s bound to be something you haven’t already learned on the internet or in the ads or from seeing the film at the movie theaters. Here goes: Firsts Coraline is the first animated feature from LAIKA in Portland, Oregon. It rains a lot in Oregon and it rains a lot in Coraline. This is not a coincidence. Coraline is the first stop-motion feature to be conceived and shot in stereoscopic 3D. Coraline is the first feature film I wrote the screenplay for, adapting Neil Gaiman’s exquisite novel. Coraline is the first all stop-motion feature that I’ve directed since The Nightmare Before Christmas. Time Great stop-motion animation takes an insane amount of time to create--the puppets in Coraline were reposed and photographed between 12 and 24 times per second of film. So in one day, an animator can produce just a few seconds of finished footage; in a week, a team of 17 animators can produce a minute; in a year, an even larger team produces a little over an hour. Nothing came quickly on Coraline. Neil Gaiman first gave me the pages of his yet-to-be published novel back in late 2000. I loved it right away and took it to producer Bill Mechanic, convincing both Neil and Bill to give me a shot at writing the screenplay as well as directing. Coming from the 100-monkeys-at-100-typewriters-for-100-years-to-write-a-Shakespeare-sonnet school of writing, my adaptation took a while to get working. It takes 22 months from conception to birth to produce a new baby elephant. The gestation for the Alpine black salamander can be three years. Coraline beats them both with a total of eight and a half years--two years to write the screenplay, three years to find a studio and a distributor bold enough to make a spooky film for kids, and three and a half years to actually make the movie from green-light to release. As Neil likes to say, it took just long enough to get things right on Coraline. An explanation: If Coraline had been green-lit right away, it would have been a live-action film. Our producer was stuck in a deal where he wasn’t allowed to make animated films. If Coraline had been green-lit right away, I wouldn’t have had time to develop my filmic vision. When I decided to make Coraline’s hair blue, I’d lived with the project long enough to know it was the right color. If Coraline had been green-lit earlier as an animated film, it would have been made in CG, since CG animated features had totally dominated ever since Toy Story. If Coraline had been green-lit earlier as a stop-motion animated feature, we couldn’t have shot it in 3D since the newest digital projection systems had not yet been put into any movie theaters. If Coraline had been green-lit earlier, I wouldn’t have worked on Wes Anderson’s Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou where both my lead creature maker and I were exposed to one of the first 3D printers. We used a later version of this device from a company called Objet, to expand the range of facial expressions in Coraline miles beyond Nightmare, and James, and Corpse Bride. Finally, if Coraline had been green-lit earlier, we wouldn’t have been able to work with LAIKA because that animation studio did not yet exist. Any other studio would have forced the film to be horribly sanitized and compromised. And without LAIKA, we wouldn’t have hooked up with our distributors, Focus Features/Universal. Why I Love Stop-Motion There was a debate about whether or not Coraline should be CG versus stop-motion early on at LAIKA. We even did a side-by-side test, thinking of using CG for the real world, and stop-motion for the fantasy world. The test only proved that we should choose one technique for the whole film and, with the help of Travis Knight, one of our lead animators on Coraline (and now head honcho at LAIKA), we opted for stop-motion. Phewwwww! The animation in Coraline is so smooth at times that some people think it might be CG. But it’s not; it’s all real puppets bathed in real light standing on real, miniature sets; puppets that were manipulated a frame at a time by the best stop-mo animators in the world. Both hand drawn and CG animation involves the creation of key poses for an entire scene and having an assistant animator or computer create in-between images. There is the ability to change sections and re-time the shot and make all sorts of adjustments. But in stop-motion, the final animation is an actual performance by the animator through the puppet, coaxing it to life a frame at a time. There is a voice actor to guide mouth shapes and timing, there are story sketches and pose tests and even rough rehearsals, but when a final shot is launched, it’s just one animator and their puppet crossing a tight rope across a chasm. Mistakes are made and fixes must be improvised as the performance unfolds, and you can sense the kinetic energy of the animator’s hands touching and reshaping the puppet in every frame. It’s slow and hard to do but there is still an amazing kick in the pants when you play your shot back and see the miracle of something willed to life by your own hands. It’s like the dream of all children, that their most beloved toys come to life and speak to them and share their secrets. An Army of Experts So what did it take to bring our main character in Coraline to life? We started with the Coraline in Neil’s novel, a character and tale inspired by his two daughters. In writing the script, I brought my own influences into the mix, including my big sister, Linda, who, when we were kids, led a mission to find a hidden well by an abandoned mansion. She also fell down a dry well in the snow once (Mr. Leg, our next door neighbor, pulled her out). My niece, Stephanie, was an inspiration for how young girls talk and think and move. Dakota Fanning read an early script of mine when she was nine. She began to influence how I thought of Coraline. Later, when we recorded her for the voice, her performance had a huge effect on the timing and expressions of the character as Coraline was animated. I worked with three different character design artists, two sculptors, and a battalion of puppet fabrication and facial animation experts to build the Coraline puppet. Next, our supervising animator and leads helped define her poses and walk and gestures, then they and all our fantastic character animators brought her to life a frame at a time in scenes sketched out by our story department, in worlds designed and built by our art/set department, bathed in real light and photographed by our lighting and camera dept, edited in our editing dept and cleaned up in visual effects. Inspiration, Coincidence, Advice, Secrets The idea for the Other Mother’s spooky doll that resembles the kids it’s spying on came from something I saw in the obituaries. An old lady had died who’d been a child-star in the days of silent movies. There was an old publicity photo of her holding a doll that looked and was dressed exactly like her. One of my favorite films of all time is Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The scene in Coraline where old Spink and Forcible perform "Sirens of the Sea" is an homage to the scene in Munchausen where a stunning, young Uma Thurman reenacts Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” painting. I read that Terry told Ms. Thurman to look directly into the lens in the scene to unsettle the audience. We had normal pets when I was a kid, like our boxer dogs Mugs and Eric, and we had unusual pets, like seahorses, raccoons, a chipmunk, and a baby alligator. Twice in my life, maybe three times, I’ve gotten big red dragonflies to land on my fingertip. I once stunned a big blue one with my fishing rod when I was a kid and brought the still-living creature home to study. I looked it up in my bug book to find I’d accidentally knocked its head off. Coraline wears a dragonfly barrette and makes origami dragonflies that come to life in the Other World. Another bug that fascinates me is the praying mantis. Rudy Kugler gave me an egg case in 4th grade that hatched out a hundred little mantises I put on my mom’s rose bushes. Near where I used to live in California, there’s a big metal sculpture of a praying mantis (eight feet long) on the roof of a gardening store. I thought it could make a great tractor design and so I put one in “Coraline” for the Other Father to drive. Twice, I’ve found mantises outside the studio, one on my car and another, especially fierce one, by the smoker’s area door. Guess all that cigarette smoke made him angry. We were well into production and I was looking for a visual ticking clock for when Coraline plays the game to find the ghost children and her parents. A gorgeous lunar eclipse occurred one night, and we all went outside the studio to watch it and bingo--there was the answer. The button-moon eclipse turned out to be one of the most memorable images in the film. When I first read Neil’s novel, I really liked the idea of button eyes but wasn’t sure how they’d work visually. So, I got our son George, 3 at the time (five years later, I recorded his voice for the ghost boy), to lie still on his back, close his eyes, and let me place some black buttons on them. He looked wonderfully creepy. After my mother, Melanie, read the Coraline novel, she reminded me that I used to sit in the kitchen for hours when I was 4 or 5 telling her about my other family in Africa, with other parents, where we had adventures with dangerous wildlife. She says I was very convincing. I was living in California when I wrote the first drafts of the screenplay for Coraline. With Neil’s encouragement, I was making some changes to the book, including setting the story in the U.S. I really wanted to keep the downstairs neighbors--actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible--British, so I picked Ashland, Oregon because they have a Shakespeare festival there. Two years later, I was approached by LAIKA Portland to come up and work for them. I agreed, and brought Coraline with me, eventually making the feature for LAIKA in Oregon. Ever since, I’ve felt that whatever state or country I had set Coraline in is where I would have ended up making it. Glad there’s no Shakespeare Festival in the Gobi Desert. I was always pitching my screen story for Coraline to my family over the years, and showing character designs and artwork to them for feedback. I also had a few film business friends read my script for input: Liz Bird told me I’d made Coraline’s real parents much too likeable and there was no reason for her to run away; director David Fincher suggested I arm Coraline with a chain saw to fight the Other Mother (but I resisted the temptation). I’ve always thought of Neil Gaiman as the cat in Coraline. He’s very wise, dryly humorous, and superior in a cat-like way. He has a great voice and I considered early on having him voice the cat. In re-setting the story in the U.S., I felt I needed more ethnic range in the characters leading me to the marvelous Keith David. Sorry, Neil. The two movers at the beginning of the film are based on real brothers Joe and Jerome Ranft, big guys who used to get asked so often to help people move on weekends that they had T-shirts printed up with “Ranft Brothers Movers” on them. Joe was one of the greatest story artists of all time and was head of story on Nightmare Before Christmas and Toy Story and many other features. He was a huge, sweet brilliant storyteller and artist with a demented side that was hilarious. He died in a car accident a few years back. Jerome, his younger brother, is one of the greatest sculptors working in animation today with a decidedly cruder sense of humor than Joe. I love both of these guys a lot. And Now, for the Close Well I’m all blogged out for now. Hope you enjoy the Coraline DVDs and all the extras we’ve crammed onto the 2-disc Blu-Ray Hi-Def and 2-disc Collector’s Edition DVD. There’s even a 3D version of the film included so you can have a stereoscopic experience right there in the privacy of your own home. Over…and…OUT. Learn more about the making of Coraline:

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Latest Famitsu Interview with Tetsuya Nomura

Thanks to *Arika-san* from The Light in Chaos (http://elwi.blog15.fc2.com/) blog for typing up the script from the recent issue of Famitsu, we were able to translate the latest interview with *Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura*. Super special thanks to *Axel* for helping me out with this! Please do not repost translations without credit to HEARTSTATION.ORG (http://heartstation.org/).* 358/2 DAYS INTERVIEW* –When Kingdom Hearts II was being created; the story for 358/2 Days was floating about at the plot level. However, the story details hadn’t been established, only the setting parts. *Nomura:* “When the 14th member appeared, would the players be surprised?” The idea of ‘Organization XIII’ had already been imprinted. In 358/2 Days, Saix expresses in harsh words the reason why it isn’t ‘Organization XIV’. Even though it’s cruel, it’s an answer which has been prepared for. –“358” is the number of days Roxas belonged to the Organization, but the meaning of “/2” is to divide by 2, so the “2” denotes two people. *Nomura:* Who those two people are, I’ll leave it to your imagination. –Xion’s appearance changes depending on the relationship of the person looking at her. It seems that when that relationship changes, she changes. *Nomura:* The figure Roxas sees is the same as what the player sees, but for example, when Xigbar and Saix see her, her figure is different. At first some people thought it was unnatural she would be wearing a hood and then not in the same scene, but I think you come to understand it as you advance through the game. People connected with a certain person see Xion as ‘Xion’. In the case of Xemnas, since he is connected to various people, he basically sees ‘Xion’, however sometimes he sees ‘him’. Who ‘he’ is, I want you to confirm it on your own. Xigbar also sees ‘him’. –Will the relationship between Sora and ‘him, Xemnas, and Xigbar be revealed in Birth by Sleep? *Nomura: *Please look forward to it. In Birth by Sleep, the initial Organization members appear, but I can’t say they play an active part. At that time, they were humans. Pay attention to Xigbar in particular. Although, when you think you understand his true nature… The mystery may deepen even more. (Laughs) He has a different standing than the other Organization members, there’s speculation about his original form. –Xigbar calls Xion ‘Puu-chan’, coming from the French word meaning doll (poupée). *Nomura:* I requested to Mr. Ishida, “I want him to call her by a nickname that parodied ‘doll’”, and this is what we came up with. Xigbar is hinting at Xion’s true nature from the beginning. –At the time he met her, Riku was surprised to see Xion, even though he had a similar event happen to him in COM. *Nomura:* At this time he noticed the true nature of her face, and knew what would happen, resulting in him telling her to leave the Organization. –As for Xion loosing the ability to wield the Keyblade midway, it is because Roxas and Xion have a yo-yo effect. *Nomura:* As Roxas gets stronger, Xion gets weaker. Roxas influences Sora, and Xion influences Roxas. –The initial members of the Organization abandoned their hearts intentionally? Why, now, do they collect hearts? *Nomura:* The reason is to have a ‘complete existence.’ KH1’s Ansem (Xehanort, stealing this name) had a purpose, and realizing that he had transcended being a human, turned into a Heartless. Xemnas remembers that purpose, but as a Nobody, ‘an empty shell,’ collects hearts to become complete. The other members of the Organization have their own expectations, but are there mainly for the purpose of collecting hearts to complete Kingdom Hearts, as only Xemnas stared ahead and made it a priority. It is natural that Nobodies, who do not have hearts, demand hearts, though it may seem that Sora’s defeating them is unnecessary, the Organization members don’t look for their own hearts, but collect many from unspecified persons, and use them instead, placing the hearts in a situation where they cannot go back to their origin. –Xemnas’s goal will be further hinted at in Birth by Sleep, the ‘Room of Awakening’ that he is looking for is related. *Nomura:* The person named ‘Xehanort’ appears in the trailer in various ways you might expect, but those will develop in ways that exceed all imagination. *Nomura:* Axel goes to Castle Oblivion more than the other members by the orders of Xemnas to look for the Room of Awakening, he’s not plotting alone. *Nomura:* Since before the beginning of Castle Oblivion, the ‘Room of Awakening’ has its origin. The creation of these are told in Birth by Sleep. *Nomura:* It is a fact that Saix and Axel probably wanted to take over the Organization, however they didn’t understand what they were going to do or how to do it. As for Xemnas, he knew about this betrayal, but never brought it up. Generally, one’s conduct was for the sake of their purpose. *Nomura*: It is a fact that Saix and Axel were acquaintances as humans, and that fact might be touch upon in Birth By Sleep. *QUESTIONS FROM THE FAMITSU READER CORNER* –This time there was no Secret Movie for 358/2 Days, because after the game, Kingdom Hearts 2 begins. *Nomura:* Instead, there is an emphasis on the hidden characters and secret reports. As for the Secret Reports, the staff removes the names to make it more mysterious! There is only a hint to who wrote what, so use your imagination to figure it out! Here’s a list of the number of reports each member wrote! Xemnas: 4 Xigbar: 5 Xaldin: 1 Vexen: 1 Lexaeus: 1 Saix: 9 Axel: 19 Demyx: 2 Luxord: 2 Marluxia: 1 Larxene: 1 Xion: 12 –Originally, it is Sora that gives Roxas the power of light to use the Keyblade in fencing moves. But it is because of the influence of Xion that it’s possible for him to use two at the same time. *Nomura:* The Keyblade can be passed under certain conditions, but a clear thing cannot be said about that. The transfer of the Keyblade from Roxas to Riku at the skyscraper is related to Xion. Although it is the origin of the name “Xion,” the flower Aster Tataricus (in Japanese, 紫苑 “shion”) also means “forget-me-not” and “recollection.” And Riku received that, “to pass away memories.” When Riku gets the Keyblade, such meanings are contained in a flashback carried out by Xion. – Although it’s a subordinate of Roxas, the Samurai Nobody attacks in the end, because of the severing of the relationship with their master, Roxas. *Nomura:* At the time, it was in development to have a subordinate Nobody in battles, but because of the difficulty involved in making such a thing happen, the goal did not materialize. –To the bitter end, it is not Kingdom Heart’s intention in itself to collect hearts *Nomura:* There is no difference between a “pure blood” Heartless, and the ones with the emblems, only the process of their births. But a heart does not appear from the pure blood Heartless. This is touched upon in Kingdom Hearts 1, and may be elaborated on in the future. –With Vexen’s plan, and Roxas’s joining, Vexen’s plan took priority. *Nomura:* Roxas being made from Sora and becoming a member wasn’t an intention, but it was lucky for them! ―Is there a connection in 358/2 Days between Birth by Sleep and Coded? *Nomura: *At the moment Coded does not have any connections with 358/2 Days, but Birth by Sleep is deeply linked. Birth by Sleep has connections to all the games in the series. ―As for Coded, Chapter 2 will be distributing. *Nomura: *From Chapter 2, the story becomes progressively longer. The story of Chapter 1 had the nuance of a tutorial, but from Chapter 2 item synthesizing increases, and after a stage is cleared, other side quests become available. Since linkage with Avatar Kingdom also becomes full-scale, please look forward to it. ―How is the development status of Birth by Sleep? *Nomura: *It’s doing alright. You could say it’s becoming a confident title. I’ve kept you waiting, but I think some new information will be sent out during summer. Since the plan is to present a trailer showing off the game’s fighting spirit at Tokyo Game Show, look forward to it. *ASK THAT PERSON Vol.16-01* –What is the meaning of the ‘x’ in the Organization member’s names? Also, was adding the ‘x’ to their original names difficult? *Nomura:* it was Xemnas’s decision to add the ‘x’. I think the meaning will become clear in Birth by Sleep. Think of the circumstances of the Organization member’s names with an ‘x’ added. We came up with many name candidates the with ‘x’ added in together with the staff, we rack our brains while we consider them. –Will the real names of Organization XIII be released publically? *Nomura:* Like how Axel’s real name was revealed in 358/2 Days, I think they’ll be revealed if there is an opportunity to do so. –Out of the hidden characters, I want to use Sora! *Nomura:* Since he’s the main character of the series, he couldn’t be left out. So he was put in as a hidden feature. –Does Xion have anything to do with Birth by Sleep? *Nomura:* I think although many people want Xion to come back once more, I’m afraid to say that it’s difficult. –Who is your favorite character? *Nomura:* It’s Sora. Since he is involved with the first title I directed, I’ll always feel a close connection to him. Since I wasn’t such a good kid, I have the desire to entrust those things I didn’t to Sora. –Please tell us how you decide on the image of the character’s clothing. *Nomura:* I design them so their clothes don’t become too fantastic. Using Sora’s outfit as a base, the outfits of Kingdom Hearts are designed to suit it. The design for Roxas was made more refined than Sora. If Sora was a country child, Roxas would be the urban child. By the way, the checkers of Roxas’s clothing represent light and darkness. –What about a 358/2 Days Final Mix? *Nomura:* There aren’t plans for a release. One of the reasons is that the voices for the English version aren’t out yet. –Is there potential for a 358/2 Days remake? *Nomura:* There are no plans at the moment. Chain of Memories was made in 2D, so it was remade, but since 358/2 Days is in 3D originally, the possibility is low. –I want there to be manga and short stories about Organization XIII before they were Nobodies, like those of Roxas’s time afterwards with Hayner and company. *Nomura:* First of all, considering manga and short stories, since they’re made when the author’s requests, saying ‘I want to write this’, this isn’t the place to ask for them. Therefore, there’s a possibility if that opinion comes from the writer’s side of it. However, it is dangerous because what is drawn upon in future games may end up conflicting with it. Because of that, if they decide not to do those parts of the game, then maybe it’ll happen. –Who are the strongest ranking Organization XIII? *Nomura:* Xemnas is the strongest, and Roxas is considerably strong you include his potential. Xaldin and Lexaeus are higher after that. However, when their strength is configured by preference, it’s different than how it appears in the story. –About how old is Xemnas? *Nomura:* Nobodies don’t age; they exist as they were at the time of becoming a Nobody. He seems about 30 years old? –You should make a girl a main character of the series! *Nomura:* One of the main characters in Birth by Sleep, Aqua will be. Please look forward to it! –What is the definition of a heart in Kingdom Hearts? *Nomura:* It is the theme of the series. To explain it simply, a person has a body, a soul, and a heart. As an image, the soul is the life source, without it a person would be dead. Since the heart doesn’t have a form, memories play an important part in forming a heart. Also, the heart isn’t limited to people, but to all things. I tried to explain this concept to Disney, and they merely said that it must be an Eastern way of thinking. It may be interesting how overseas players think of it.

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Details On New Crow Movie Emerge

Mania.com has some new information about a brand-new “The Crow” movie, the latest in the franchise started by the 1989 comic book by James O’Barr and now-infamous 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee. Announced in 2008 and being directed by Stephen Norrington (”Blade”, “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”), Norrington told Mania.com that his film, contrary to rumors, would not be a remake of the original story, but rather about a “a whole new story, about a whole new character” according to their source. No release date or other information has been released yet, we’ll keep you posted as the news comes in. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for upcoming movie news and more from “The Crow”. By [...]

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ST09 Tidbits: Last Day in Top 10? + More Khan Debate + More Trek/Wars + more

Two months into its release and there is still stuff to report about the new Star Trek movie. We have the latest box office results and what may be the end to its top 10 run, Plus more Khan debate online, more Star Wars/Star Trek, and a few other ST09 tidbits. Star Trek’s last day [...]

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Thursday To-Do: Demi Lovato

DEMI LOVATO 7 p.m., Verizon Arena. $14.99-$49.50. A week after she appeared on the cover of People locked arm and arm, giggling, with Selena Gomez (“The Disney stars open up about family, fun and being BFFs”), Demi Lovato goes into the books as the first to headline at newly christened Verizon Arena. (The Alltel sign went down last week.) As the latest contender for Disney's tween queen, Dallas-raised Lovato has all the necessary bona fides: She acts, she sings and she loves Jesus. Last week, the debut of her “Princess Protection Program” movie recorded the third highest number of viewers for Disney Channel. It stars Lovato as a princess who, after a dictator grabs power, flees her country for rural Louisiana, where she teaches Selena Gomez to find her “inner princess.” That followed, by a little more than a week, the release of her latest single, an angst-y, surprisingly guitar-heavy pop blast called “Here We Go Again.” It's also the title of her sophomore album, due out July 21. Then there's “Sonny with a Chance,” the latest of Disney's meta wish-fulfillment TV shows. Here Lovato plays the star of a TV show. It's about “following your dream,” Disney has said. David Archuleta, the apple-cheeked runner-up of the seventh season of “American Idol,” opens with songs from his self-titled debut album.

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Latest Movie Poster Release for Upcoming Deep Space Sci-Fi Flick "Pandorum"

Well, well...if this movie poster isn't designed to shock, we don't know a movie poster released this year that comes close. This image is designed to represent either the aftermath of a crazy night of unprotected sex, a female version...

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Florence County family back in spotlight with release of new Depp, Bale movie

Melvin Purvis, a Timmonsville native, is one of the subjects of a new public television documentary and the latest major release starring Johnny Depp and Chrisitian Bale.

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Lakefront Productions, Inc. Chooses Wireless Communication Experts Talamas Broadcast to Provide Two-Way Radios for Grownups, an Adam Sandler Movie Currently in Production

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