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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Selick’s career pre-Nightmare would have picked up on the same sensibilities that were probably the reason he was offered Burton’s 1993 feature in the first place. Similarities to Nightmare were… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers • Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers • Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…come from Touchstone since Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas almost twenty years ago. Like Nightmare, Disney may well end up embracing Gnomeo & Juliet as one of its own in the… |
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The Boxtrolls
…to follow, it’s increasingly obvious that Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas from a couple of years before remains the yardstick and clear inspiration for the majority of stop-motion features… |
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Jack's back! NB4X's Skellington returns for Halloween!
…and a bunch of reviews that we’ve stockpiled up on to celebrate. Released in August, it seems to make much more sense to look at Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before… |
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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
Well have I ever had a nightmare before, during and after Christmas! Just as we were about to post a bumper festive bunch of content – including our look back… |
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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…Beast, and current theatrical releases Tron: Legacy and Tangled are among the 15 titles scheduled to be released next year. Additional titles include Bolt, Meet the Robinsons, The Nightmare Before… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…etc) and the retro-dimensional-fitting of Tim Burton’s 1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas, it now seems the time for some of the Studio’s other renaissance pictures to get a third-dimension makeover…. |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…all we could have hoped for by making a strange and challenging, obscure short piece of work. Actually, a nightmare. We threw a nightmare into the world thinking that, maybe… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…Iron Giant. I also love it when they create a world that I believe in and want to explore, like in Finding Nemo and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I could… |
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Composers lined up for animated projects
Coming Soon has the details on which composers will be scoring various upcoming live-action and animated projects. The Nightmare Before Christmas composer Danny Elfman will provide the music for the… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…hard times. This fall the company is wrapping production on its first feature, the stop-motion Coraline, helmed by Laika supervising director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Laika is financing… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…is for that reason that it is often the technique of choice for filmmakers like Tim Burton and Henry Selick, looking to create a strange and spooky world (Nightmare Before… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…features! The 1935 A Cartoonist’s Nightmare ends the disc and finds the Studio now well recognised and confident enough to take a pot shot at their working practices, even setting… |
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Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!
…broadcast between 1975 and 1979, several of which were either nominated for or received Emmy Awards. What A Nightmare, Charlie Brown, included in the set, is new to DVD. A… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…most of us, 2021 was thankfully a lot calmer than the collective nightmare that was 2020. But at the same time, we didn’t quite get back to where we all… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…described as Nightmare Before Christmas meets Looney Tunes, House Of Monsters follows these creatures and their friends through adventures in an ominous castle and its neighboring village. Dawn Brown kindly… |
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Henry Selick keeping very busy, talks \\The Wall and the Wing\\ and \\Moongirl\\
Henry Selick (\\The Nightmare Before Christmas\\, \\James and the Giant Peach\\) is attached to direct a film version of the children’s novel \\The Wall and the Wing\\ for the independent… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…respond to classic titles being re-released in the format. On October 20, 2006, the studio issued The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D to theaters, beginning an annual event. In its… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…we see each year. Like Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Belleville draws you into its world – an alternate take on our own – and plays by – and… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…The Nightmare Before Christmas. You could buy it for the cost of a small house! The Halloweentown model promotes the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Nightmare Before Christmas James: With… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…a demonstration on how these fascinating characters come to life through stop-motion animation. Official Synopsis: From creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas) comes Frankenweenie, a… |
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Henry Selick bringing stop-motion back to Disney
…and Brad Bird. Selick made his directing debut at Disney back in 1993 with The Nightmare Before Christmas, followed up by the box office disappointment James and the Giant Peach…. |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…And The Beast and Aladdin had made animation cool again, and The Nightmare Before Christmas showed the Studio was also interested in pushing boundaries. Pixar already had an association –… |
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Heidi’s Song
…Heidi freshly settles in at her new mountain home, her first night of nerves plays tricks on her in a pretty spectacular “Nightmare Ballet”, where the creatures of the night… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…It sounds like nothing, but everything was in for the nightmare: unlikely action in real life, constraints, hair, ground penetrations, cheating shapes and geometry, scaling limbs, heavy rig and choreography… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…again with Frankenweenie, pushing it as “from the director of Alice In Wonderland” instead of “from the creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands”, which this trail makes… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…(2001), Toy Story (1995), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Beauty and the Beast (1992) and The Little Mermaid (1989). In addition to films, he is a noted author… |
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Firebreather
…causes a big scene to capture the monster and he later shows it to Isabel, winning her affection and Kenny’s disapproval. Duncan moves onto gym class and every child’s nightmare:… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…interviews with various crew members and fans, including an obviously inspired Tim Burton and Danny Elfman fresh from their not too dissimilar The Nightmare Before Christmas. Expanding upon that material… |
