{"id":147,"date":"2009-02-25T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-08-23T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T04:07:13","slug":"hopefully-people-will-laika-coraline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2009\/02\/hopefully-people-will-laika-coraline\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully People Will Laika Coraline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"'Be Careful What You Wish For'\" href=\"http:\/\/coraline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coraline<\/a> opened a few weeks ago; and while I&#8217;m not a huge fan of stop motion films,\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0hoping it does well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Coraline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coraline.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148     aligncenter\" title=\"I Have The Exact Same Shirt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coraline-300x167.png\" alt=\"coraline\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coraline-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/coraline.png 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The main reason I am rooting for the movie is that it was made by\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Owned By The Nike Co-Founder (Really)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laika.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laika<\/a>. They are an animation studio that has done mostly commercials and music videos, and this is there first feature film. Laika&#8217;s style runs the gamut &#8211; including\u00c2\u00a0stop motion,\u00c2\u00a0 3D,\u00c2\u00a0and 2D. Therefore, the success of this film can lead to\u00c2\u00a0more films, which are\u00c2\u00a0more to my liking. At the same time, Laika is also based out of\u00c2\u00a0Portland, Oregon. So props to them for trying to go outside of California to be a successful major studio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/title.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149  aligncenter\" title=\"'E' Stands For All That? Okay.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/title.jpg\" alt=\"title\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/title.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/title-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Financially, Coraline seems to be doing decently well. The cost to make the film was ~$70 Million, which apparently was higher than it should have been\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0but I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s always the case). The current\u00c2\u00a0North American gross is nearly $58 Million; and with the\u00c2\u00a0solid reviews and positive word of mouth,\u00c2\u00a0the movie\u00c2\u00a0could potentially reach $100 Million before it leaves the theaters. I&#8217;m sure the DVD sales will help out\u00c2\u00a0the bottom line as well. All in all, not a box office smash, but hopefully a big enough success to warrant\u00c2\u00a0another movie.<\/p>\n<p>As a plug for the movie, it does have a decent cast (Teri Hatcher, Dakota Fanning, John Hodgman, etc.), an established director in <a title=\"You Can't Fault Him For Being Born In New Jersey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0783139\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Selick<\/a>, and music by They Might Be Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, in case you were wondering, I was not up all night thinking about the title for this post&#8230; I got to bed around 2, 2:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coraline opened a few weeks ago; and while I&#8217;m not a huge fan of stop motion films,\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0hoping it does well. The main reason I am rooting for the movie is that it was made by\u00c2\u00a0Laika. They are an animation studio that has done mostly commercials and music videos, and this is there first feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,40],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation","tag-laika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}