Coraline Review

Finally we have the first reviews of Coraline come through on Ainitcool...

From the reviewers point it seems like it's going to be a great movie... So all looks very hopeful!

Jump over to the review here.

Random News

Not sure whether you are all aware that author and potential movie director Neil Gaiman write his own blog, which certainly attracts fans like me.

Neil Gaiman is famous for Stardust, Mirrormask. and Beowulf. He's also been in talks to direct a movie with Del Toro entitled "Death" based upon one of his comics.

Today Gaiman tells us how to create the perfect cranberry jelly, and also brings us news of Henry Selick's interview on"Coraline", which will be Gaiman's next movie to be released this Febuary. link

More in news, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (sequel to Prince Caspian) has had a couple concept pictures come out, which you can see below. source

Also if you are in the UK you might be interested to know that Cineworld Cinemas has updated it's website. you can see it here.

Del Toro's future projects!

I read a really interesting post down at Bloody Disgusting today telling us about all the future movies that Del toro intends to do.

Bloody Disgusting tells us that Del Toro is officially booked up with projects to direct and produce right up until 2017.

Del toro will be spending the next 5 years working on the much awaited Hobbit movies!

Then after that it looks like he's going to be doing a lot of projects for Universal (who published his Hellboy 2 for him)

Here is a list of the projects Del Toro's got going on for him at Universal:

• Frankenstein: Del Toro has always been fascinated with the story of Frankensein, and I must say that I am too. Del Toro feels that the previous productions have not done justice to the Gothic Fantasy element, and thus wants to create somthing better
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Another Classic that needs a very thorough adaptation by a director that understands the fantasy and horror genres.
• Slaughterhouse-Five: I really can't say too much about this movie but it's some kind of adaptation of the book bearing the same Name... If you read that article, I'm sure you'll agree with me that it is a little different to a lot of the preceding Del Toro films. Sounds very interesting!
• Drood: This one seems a bit strange to... Some kind of fictional biography about the last years of Charles Dickens' life... Del Toro filming Charles Dickens! (not quite)
• (perhaps) At The Mountains of madness: Del Toro adapted this HP Lovecraft book as a script a while back, and it seems as if Universal would like to finaly make this into a movie with him!
• (perhaps) Hellboy 3 too!: Del Toro is still hoping that Universal will again fund him for a final Hellboy movie, to round off the trilogy, and they have said it is a possibility!

Producing: Universal would also like to employ Det Toro as a producer over those few years, so he's certainly going to have enough work to do!

• Hater: "Universal also has on the horizon an adaptation of David Moody’s apocalyptic novel HATER that del Toro will produce with Mark Johnson but not direct" (Bloody Disgusting)
• Cimson Peak: "a gothic romance spec script by del Toro and his "Mimic" collaborator Matthew Robbins, which del Toro will produce but not direct." (Bloody Disgusting)

There were also a couple other movies that Del Toro was going to do:

• Saturn and The End of Days
• Neil Gaiman's Death: which Del Toro will produce with Neil Gaiman directing, if they can find funding for it!

Well that gives you some insight as to what Del Toro will be doing in the years to come! He's come a long way from being the small time director looking anywhere he can for funding to make Hellboy, to becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after fantasy/horror directors!

Coraline: Behind the Scenes Video

Ok, I've got a bit more for you Coraline and Neil Gaiman fans, there's a new behind the scenes video out, you can see a few shots from the film too, it looks really good!

you can view the video here!

For those of you who are not acquanted with Coraline, it is based on the book by Neil Gaiman bearing the same title. The Movie is filmed all in stop-motion by Henry Selick, who also did the acclaimed Nightmare Before Christmas.

Coraline is due to be released in cinemas in Feburary 2009.

Coraline Pictures

In 2009 Henry Selick (who brought us the Nightmare Before Christmas) will again bring us an extraordinary film. Based of Neil Gaiman's book, Coraline will be a stop-motion picture that will be an experience not to be missed.

The Story will follow a young girl, played by Dakota Fanning, who discovers that there are fantasy worlds unlike our own.

Any fantasy/horror fans must not miss this film. I will write more as time goes on, so keep checking back!

But for now I have found a site that will give you a couple pictures of the puppets used to make the film: have a look here!

MirrorMask

MirrorMask is a little known film, which should be much wider known!

A fantasy film by established author Neil Gaiman, this is fantasy for the hard core, even filmed in a weired way.

Made in asociation with the Henson Company and utilising Henson's creature shop, this is no ordinary film. A true original!

Film Rating: 8.5/10