‘Coraline’ Creators Celebrate Its Halloween Re-Release After 15 Years: ‘It Has Its Place in Culture’
variety.comEmiliana Betancourt Just in time for Halloween, “Coraline” is back (once again!) in theaters, but now remastered with some sound and color adjustments and 3D effects.
After a great summer in the box office following its 15-year anniversary re-release, the adventurous little girl returned to theaters on Oct.
31 and Nov. 1. Earning $53 million globally, the stop-motion film proved that it’s still a hit a generation later. “To turn up and watch it with my kids in a theater, that’s a really special opportunity that we have,” said Ollie Jones, one of the original film’s animators who’s now head of practical effects at Laika. “It’s extraordinary to be able to really engage again with an audience.” He said that “Coraline’s” continuous success meant the movie had entered a status of “cultural consciousness,” any filmmaker’s dream. “When we were making it, Caroline was a success, but did we think it was a 20 year comeback anniversary kind of success?” Jones shared a sweet anecdote that encapsulated this full circle moment in his career, “I was watching ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ last night, and I remember being teen, and thinking, ‘I’d love to make a film that I could walk through Camden 10 years after its release, and see the face of the characters from that film in those market stalls like that would be so awesome.’ And now we’re at that point where it’s just like, it’s there!
It’s like it has its place in culture! Which I think, 15 years on, that’s only a testament to the decision making that was happening at the time.
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