A familiar face returned to the big screen this weekend with Fathom Events’ 15th anniversary re-release of LAIKA’s Coraline, presented in a new stereoscopic 3D remaster. Directed by Henry Selick and based on the dark fantasy book by Neil Gaiman, the film was LAIKA”s first stop-motion feature and was originally shot in 3D. The anniversary re-release netted $11.6 million Thursday to Sunday, breaking the record for Fathom’s highest-grossing classic film it set last year with $7+ million over four days.
In its original 2009 release, Coraline opened with a $16.8M weekend and went on to gross $75.3M domestically ($127 million globally).
The film centers on feisty 11-year-old Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who relocates with her family to Oregon. Lonesome, bored and largely ignored by her busy parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman), Coraline explores the house and discovers a mysterious passage into a parallel world, where the button-eyes Other Mother lavishes her with attention, and plots to keep Coraline in the Other World forever. The voice cast also features Keith David as Cat, Ian McShane as Bobinsky, Dawn French as Miss Spink and Jennifer Suanders as Miss Forcible.
The film was nominated for the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for best animated feature; won the Annecy Cristal, British Academy Children’s Award and Annie Awards for music, character design and production design; and was named one of the best films of the year by AFI.
Weekend Domestic Top 10 (animation in bold):
- Alien: Romulus (20th Century/Disney) – $41.5M – week 1
- Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Disney) – $29M (total $545.8M) – week 4
- It Ends with Us (Sony) – $24M ($97.78M) – week 2
- Twisters (Universal) – $9.8M ($238.4M) – week 5
- Coraline 15th Anniversary (LAIKA/Fathom Events) – $8.39M (four-day total $11.3M) – week 1
- Despicable Me 4 (Illumination/Universal) – $6M ($340.4M) – week 7
- Trap (Warner Bros.) – $3.4M ($35.2M) – week 3
- Inside Out 2 (Pixar/Disney) – $3.2M ($642.19M) – week 10
- Stree 2 – $2.57M – week 1
- Borderlands (Lionsgate) – $2.35M ($13.54M) – week 2
[Sources Variety, BoxOfficeMojo]
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