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Jan 31, 2023 · The conflict and jealousy between Jack and Oogie is explored, as well as why exactly Oogie has to live underground in his lair. Spoiler alert: it's because once again, he lost a fight with Jack...
The Nightmare Before Christmas was reissued under the Walt Disney Pictures label and re-released on October 20, 2006, with conversion to Disney Digital 3-D, and was accompanied by Pixar's short film Knick Knack.
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Taking place in a land with doors to all holiday realms, "Halloween Town" is a dream world filled with citizens such as ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, witches, monsters, and deforms. Another Halloween has come and gone and everyone is returning from scaring people. Jack Skellington, "King of the pumpkin patch", is a respected entertainer amo...
Danny Elfman as Jack Skellington(singing voice)Chris Sarandon as Jack (Speaking)(voice)Catherine O'Hara as Sally(voice)William Hickey as Evil Scientist(voice)Burton wrote a three-page poem titled The Nightmare Before Christmas when he was a Disney animator in the early-1980s. Burton took inspiration from television specials of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas. With the success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider The Nightma...
Release
Walt Disney Pictures decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought Nightmare would be "too dark and scary for kids". Selick remembered, "Their biggest fear, and why it was kind of a stepchild project, was they were afraid of their core audience hating the film and not coming. It wasn't too dark, too scary. Kids love to get scared. In fact, I don't think it's too scary at all. Even little, little kids, as young as three, a lot of them love that film an...
Legacy
With successful home video sales, Nightmare achieved the ranks of being a cult film. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment first released the film on VHS in March 3, 1994. And On DVD in March 3, 2000. It contained special features. Nightmare was released a second time in October 2000 as a special edition. The release included audio commentary by Selick and cinematographer Pete Kozachik, a 28-minute making-of documentary, gallery of concept art and storyboards, test footage and deleted scenes...
There has been pressure from Disney for a sequel. Henry Selick explained in August 2008, "there were discussions over the years about a possible sequel. When those discussions came up about seven years ago [2001], it was unsettling that it was suggested this time it would have to be done in computer animation. I'm glad that did not happen. But as f...
This film along with Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988) are the only Touchstone Pictures movies to be Disney movies.Over the years there has been a debate over whose film it is; while Tim Burton created the story and characters, Henry Selick was the one who directed it (this was because at the time Burton was bu...Burton and Elfman had a feud while making this film, so much so that Elfman didn't score Burton's next picture, Ed Wood.For years there was talk about a sequel to the film but Burton shot the idea down as he was not a fan of sequels but also there was no point of making a sequel, there was a stage musical release of...The Nightmare Before ChristmaswikiNightmare Before Christmas from Halloween WikiaNightmare Before Christmas from Halloween Specials WikiaThe 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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In 2006, Disney reissued The Nightmare Before Christmas as a Walt Disney Pictures release instead of Touchstone Pictures. This movie was flimed from 1st August 1991 to 22nd June 1993. The original theatrical version used the 1987-2003 Touchstone Pictures logo, and later the reissued version with the 2006-2022 Walt Disney Pictures logo .
Moment when he realizes he's been overthinking the magic of Christmas and decides to spread his own brand of Christmas cheer, presenting his findings to the citizens of Halloween Town, which leads the Mayor to endorse Jack's plan to bring a Halloween themed Christmas to the world.
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"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a Tim Burton film in the sense that the story, its world and its look first took shape in Burton's mind, and he supervised their filming. But the director of the film, a veteran stop-action master named Henry Selick , is the person who has made it all work.
