History Trivia / Coraline

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: In a nasty case of a trending tag being taken as truth, somebody once brought up the hypothetical idea of a live-action remake of the film on Twitter... which got it on trending, leading people to actually believe a live-action remake would be made in spite of no such news being reported.

* The film originally held the world record for longest StopMotion film. Being 1 hour and 40 minutes long. This record was surpassed by WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' by a minute several years later.

* The film originally held the world record for longest StopMotion film. Being 1 hour and 40 minutes long. This record was surpassed by WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheSixStrings'' by a minute several years later.

* Has the world record for longest StopMotion film.

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

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

** There was actually an orchestrated score written by Mark Watters that ultimately went unused in the console game.

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

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

** The voice actresses of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible were actually meant to play each other's parts, with the short, chubby Miss Spink having a deep voice, and the long, slender Miss Forcible having a high pitched voice. They were switched because Henry Selick thought the characters were funnier that way.

* TheOtherDarrin: Mrs. Jones isn't voiced by Teri Hatcher in the game, receiving an uncredited voice actress to voice her instead.

** Versions for the ''UsefulNotes/Playstation3'', ''UsefulNotes/XBox360'', and ''UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable'' were planned, but the [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames mixed critical reception]] to the Playstation 2/Wii game put those plans on hold.

* RoleReprisal: Some of the voice cast from the movie return to voice their respective characters from the game. Most notably Dakota Fanning (Coraline) and Keith David (The Black Cat).

* RoleReprisal: Most of the voice cast from the movie return to voice their respective characters from the game. Most notably Dakota Fanning (Coraline) and Keith David (The Black Cat).

** Versions for the ''UsefulNotes/Playstation3'', ''UsefulNotes/XBox360'', and ''UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable'' were planned, but the [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames negative critical reception]] to the Playstation 2/Wii game put that idea in the dumpster.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There was actually an orchestrated score written by Mark Watters that ultimately went unused in the console game.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Mrs. Jones isn't voiced by Teri Hatcher in the game, receiving an uncredited voice actress to voice her instead.
* RoleReprisal: Most of the voice cast from the movie return to voice their respective characters from the game. Most notably Dakota Fanning (Coraline) and Keith David (The Black Cat).
* DummiedOut: There was actually an orchestrated score written by Mark Watters that ultimately went unused in the game. Listen to it here.

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

* UrbanLegend: In a nasty case of a trending tag being taken as truth, somebody once brought up the hypothetical idea of a live-action remake of the film on Twitter... which got it on trending, leading people to actually believe a live-action remake would be made in spite of no such news being reported.

* 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 it got Creator/{{Laika}} a decent distribution deal at Universal, under Focus Features, until WesternAnimation/WeakestLink which is getting distribution by Annapurna and Creator/{{Lionsgate}}

* Gaiman's daughter was also the [[http://www.npr.org/2011/12/24/144146842/author-neil-gaiman-plays-not-my-job reason]] he wrote Coraline. A case of [[SoMyKidsCanWatch So My Kids Can Read]].

* 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.

* ApprovalofGod: Neil Gaiman, the book's author, outright encouraged the use of creative license in the film, and by all accounts, is very pleased with the final product.

* Coraline's name was a case of ThrowItIn when writing the book, because it was just a typo for "Caroline" that Gaiman really liked.

* 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 [[Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge John Hodgman]].
* PermanentPlaceholder: 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.

** 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'').