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Skellington Productions was an American animation studio and production company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films.
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Skellington Productions was a company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Animation Studios and directors Tim Burton & Henry Selick. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films.
Tim Burton and Henry Selick formed the company in 1986 as Burton/Selick Projects, where Tim Burton could direct episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, while Henry Selick could focus on doing animation. After producing award-winning animation for MTV, Ritz, Pillsbury, and more, Tim Burton left to work on Beetlejuice (1988), so Selick renamed the studio to Selick Projects.
In September 1992, Tim Burton returned Selick's studio, renamed it Skellington Productions, and sold it to Disney. The first film produced by Skellington Productions (which gave the company its namesake), The Nightmare Before Christmas, was released theatrically in 1993 under Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner to an extremely positive response and box office, becoming a sleeper hit. Since 2006, The Nightmare Before Christmas has been re-released by Walt Disney Pictures and in Disney Digital 3-D format.
The second and final film, James and the Giant Peach, released to theaters in 1996 while Pathe distributed the film outside the US. It also met with positive reviews but failed to make a suitable profit and lead to the studio shutting down.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick in his feature directorial debut and produced and conceived by Tim Burton.
May 19, 2017 · Skellington Productions was a joint venture between Disney and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop-motion animation and through its short life, produced two films. Formed in 1986 by Selick and Burton, the company started by working with TV shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and Faerie Tale ...
Sep 4, 2018 · The director of the 1993 film, a collaboration with Tim Burton, recalls the difficulties and joys of making the stop-motion musical. He also reveals how he fought to keep the songs in the movie and how he built his own studio in San Francisco.
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View full company info for Skellington Productions Inc. (US) 1. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1993 1h 16m PG. 7.9 (377K) Rate. 82 Metascore. Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion. 2. Ed Wood. 1994 2h 7m R. 7.8 (185K) Rate. 71 Metascore.
Skellington Productions was an American animation studio and production company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films.
