Featured films: Home Alone (1990), Die Hard (1988), Elf (2003), Gremlins (1984), Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cinematographers: Julio Macat (Home Alone), Jan de Bont (Die Hard), Greg Gardiner (Elf), John Hora (Gremlins), Pete Kozachik (Nightmare Before Christmas)
Directors: Chris Columbus (Home Alone), John McTiernan (Die Hard), Jon Favreau (Elf), Joe Dante (Gremlins), Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas)
Movies featured: Halloween (1978), Corpse Bride (2005), Friday the 13th (1980), Beetlejuice (1988), The Shining (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), Coraline (2009), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1995)
Cinematographers: Pete Kozachik (Corpse Bride, Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas), Jace Disla (Coraline), Dean Cundey (Halloween), Barry Abrams (Friday the 13th), Thomas E. Ackerman (Beetlejuice), John Alcott (The Shining), László Kovács (Ghostbusters)
Directors: Tim Burton (Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice), Mike Johnson (Corpse Bride), John Carpenter (Halloween), Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th), Henry Selick (Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas), Stanley Kubrick (The Shining), Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters)
The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, Jack Skellington had around four hundred heads to represent different emotions and mouth shapes. (x)
LETS PLAY A GAME. It’s called: Who directed it TIM BURTON or HENRY SELICK
We’ll start with the 2009 Laika film Coraline based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Do you know who directed it? Burton or Selick?
Did you guess yet?
If you guessed Henry Selick, you would be correct. Tim Burton actually had absolutely nothing to do with Coraline at all in anyway ever. Reminder: Tim Burton has NOTHING to do with Coraline. At all. But that was an easy one. Let’s go to the Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, James and the GiantPeachnext.
Think you got it? Are you sure? Better double check…
Oh, look. It’s Henry Selick again! Tim Burton actually interacted with this project, though only as a producer. Bet that was tricky… Next one! Let’s go to the Disney/Touchstone Pictures film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Have you guessed it correctly? Have you really?
Yep that’s right. Even Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by Henry Selick. Though Burton wrote the poem and created the characters in which Nightmare was based he didn’t have much interaction with the project beyond that. At the time he had already signed off to direct the film Batman Returns and did not want to be involved with the “painstakingly slow process of stop-motion animation.”
Looks like it was a trick quiz. But now you know Henry Selick, whom people rarely know of is responsible for many of the most well known stop-motion animated films. The more you know!
This isn’t even being qeued. This is just being reblogged, because some of you still don’t understand who directed Coraline.
Burton didn’t even have a TANGENTIAL connection to Coraline but because it was advertised as “from the director of Nightmare Before Christmas” and people think Burton directed Nightmare (or even wrote the script or did much of anything but visit the set off and on) they still equate Coraline with him.
The same thing happens to “9” because people don’t get what “produced by” means.
“Though Burton wrote the poem and created the characters in which Nightmare was based he didn’t have much interaction with the project beyond that.”
Didn’t have much interaction? He kicked a hole in a wall in reaction to someone saying Oogie Boogie would be Dr. Finkelstein the whole time and the doctor pops out of the sack at the end of the film so Oogie Boogie and Dr. Finkelstein were changed to being separate characters for the finished film. Post link
