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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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Skellington Productions was a complete stop-motion production facility at a warehouse building in San Fransisco. It was a combined venture between Tim Burton and the Walt Disney Company. It was first founded by Burton and Henry Selick in 1986, and came to a close in 1996. The warehouse building...
Skellington Productions (formerly) Tim Burton Productions is an American film and television production company founded by Tim Burton in the mid-1980s. Denise Di Novi once headed the banner from 1989 to 1996. [2] The company was not usually credited on films directed or produced by Burton.
TitleU.s. Release DateDirector(s)Co-production CompaniesSeptember 6, 2024Tim BurtonWarner Bros. Pictures, Plan B ...March 29, 2019Tim BurtonWalt Disney Pictures, Infinite Detective ...May 27, 2016Walt Disney Pictures, Roth Films, Team ...December 25, 2014Tim BurtonElectric City Entertainment, Silverwood ...Oct 29, 1993 · The Nightmare Before Christmas: Directed by Henry Selick. With Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey. Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Burton found production somewhat difficult, because he was simultaneously filming Batman Returns and pre-production of Ed Wood. The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around four hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion.
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.
