History Trivia / Coraline

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going and ended up becoming the second highest grossing stop-motion animated film domestically.

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going and ended up becoming the second highest grossing stop-motion animated film domestically.

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going and ended up becoming the second highest grossing stop-motion animated film domestically.

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going and ended up becoming the second highest grossing stop-motion animated film domestically.

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Henry Selick served as the writer, producer, director, production designer and lyricist (for Other Spink and Forcible's song).

** The garden scene, the mice circus, the theatre, the Other Mother transforming and the other world disintegrating... they're not CGI. They're done with stop-motion. The mice are animated by replacement parts; every single movement needs an entirely new, sculpted mouse figure.

* FakeNationality: Ian Mcshane as Mr Bobinsky - Bobinsky is Russian while Mcshane is British.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Initially, no studio showed interest in the film. Then producer Bill Mechanic (who also believed in Creator/JamesCameron and ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' at Fox) showed interest and jumped on as a financier, which got the film made and a distributor in Universal. The movie became a SleeperHit, director Henry Selick got a deal at Creator/{{Pixar}} and the animation studio now works full-time with Universal.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/{{Laika}} Animation themselves, whose success with the film lead to closing their CG feature division entirely, to focus entirely on their stop motion division.

* StarMakingRole: For {{Laika}} Animation themselves, whose success with the film lead to closing their CG feature division entirely, to focus entirely on their stop motion division.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie was originally planned as a musical with 10 songs written by TheyMightBeGiants, but this idea was discarded in favor of a more conventional movie, although one of their songs (the Other Father's number) does remain in the film, and the band has said they will release the other songs written for the movie on other projects ("Careful What You Pack", for example, wound up on their 2007 album ''The Else'').

* ActingForTwo: Every voice actor whose character has real-world and Other World versions.
** Except for [[spoiler: Other Wybie, whom the Other Mother has rendered mute because Coraline finds the real Wybie obnoxious.]]

* NonSingingVoice: The Other Father is voiced by [[TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]] for about 30 seconds in a [[EarWorm frustratingly catchy]] song. For the rest of the time, he's [[CompleteWorldKnowledge John Hodgman]].

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going until finally becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all-time.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Initially, no studio showed interest in the film. Then producer Bill Mechanic (who also believed in Creator/JamesCameron and ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' at Fox) showed interest and jumped on as a financier, which got the film made and a distributor in Universal. The movie became a SleeperHit, director Henry Selick got a deal at {{Pixar}} and the animation studio now works full-time with Universal.

* WordOfGay: [[WordOfGod According to Gaiman himself]] on his Tumblr, [[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/96248654066/hello-i-was-reading-coraline-again-and-something-hit Miss Spink and Miss Forcible are a couple]].

* SleeperHit: When the film came out, stop-motion animation was considered dead and the film was expected to die a quick death at the box office against ''PinkPanther 2'' and the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''. After a better than expected opening, the film kept on going until finally becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all-time.

* CareerResurrection: For Henry Selick, who's last movie was the abysmal failure that was ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}''.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/KeithDavid as a black cat who seems incredibly {{Badass}} just because it's his voice. Admittedly, he was pretty badass in the book, too. Luckily, his fight with that one rat doesn't take [[Film/TheyLive five minutes of screen time]].
** Keith David voiced Spawn in Todd [=McFarlane=]'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}}'', which is based on the comic book of the same name that Neil Gaiman wrote an issue and filed a lawsuit over.
** Also, the two mothers are [[Series/LoisAndClark Lois Lane]] and [[Series/DesperateHousewives Susan Mayer]].
*** However, in the video game, she's KathSoucie.
** The Other Father is briefly voiced by John Linnell of Music/TheyMightBeGiants during his song for Coraline.
*** One wonders about the content of Mr. Jones' seed catalog. Is it full of [[CompleteWorldKnowledge made-up seeds, a list of 700 famous gardeners, and masturbation jokes]], by any chance?
*** At one point, the father mentions that he is [[IncrediblyLamePun getting a virus]]. Get it, because he's a PC?
** And Creator/DakotaFanning as the voice of Coraline.
** Mr. Bobinsky is [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Tai Lung.]]

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Detroit Zoo snowglobe.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Initially, no studio showed interest in the film. Then producer Bill Mechanic (who also believed in Creator/JamesCameron and ''{{Titanic}}'' at Fox) showed interest and jumped on as a financier, which got the film made and a distributor in Universal. The movie became a SleeperHit, director Henry Selick got a deal at {{Pixar}} and the animation studio now works full-time with Universal.

* CareerResurrection: For Henry Selick, who's last movie was the abysmal failure that was ''Film/Monkeybone''.

* DoingItForTheArt: The production speed is about 3 seconds per day.

* The movie's production took five years, at the rate of roughly three seconds a day.

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Henry Selick served as the writer, producer, director, and production designer.

* StarMakingRole: For Laika Animation themselves, whose success with the film lead to closing their CG feature division entirely, to focus entirely on their stop motion division.

* HeyItsThatVoice: KeithDavid as a black cat who seems incredibly {{Badass}} just because it's his voice. Admittedly, he was pretty badass in the book, too. Luckily, his fight with that one rat doesn't take [[TheyLive five minutes of screen time]].
** Keith David voiced Spawn in Todd [=McFarlane=]'s Spawn, which is based on the comic book of the same name that Neil Gaiman wrote an issue and filed a lawsuit over.

** The Other Father is briefly voiced by John Linnell of TheyMightBeGiants during his song for Coraline.

* ThrowItIn: The scene with Other Spink and Other Forcible was originally meant to have a song written by TheyMightBeGiants (as was a lot of the rest of the film, but that's another matter). After hearing the placeholder song the writers had come up with, John and John said it was good enough and there was no reason to replace it.