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In 2009, it was considered almost shocking when Pixar's Up addressed the subject of death in its now-classic opening sequence, a bittersweet mini-movie of love and loss. Nowadays, after 2017's Coco and 2020's Soul, and with Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio on the horizon, it's hard to believe it was…

UPDATED, 8:15 A.M.: Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for Wendell & Wild — its stop-motion film from Oscar nominee Henry Selick (Coraline), which is slated for release on the streamer on October 28. The film reuniting the Key and Peele duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for key voice roles follows…

Writer-director Henry Selick’s idea for Wendell & Wild came to him years earlier, when his sons were young. “I did a sketch of them when they were acting especially demonic,” says Selick. Wendell & Wild is about Kat (Lyric Ross), a young girl with a connection to the underworld in the form of two demon brothers…

Key and Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are reteaming as part of the cast of Wendell & Wild, a new animated film that Oscar nominee Henry Selick (Coraline) is directing for Netflix, which will also star Lyric Ross (This Is Us), Angela Bassett (Black Panther), James Hong (Kung Fu Panda), Tamara Smart (A Baby…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his directorial debut Get Out, Jordan Peele is at the center of a most intriguing feature re-team with Keegan-Michael Key, his longtime partner on the Emmy-winning Comedy Central series Key and Peele. Netflix has committed to finance and distribute Wen…

BREAKING: The crew on Henry Selick's untitled stop motion animated film were told this afternoon that Disney is not proceeding with this project. Though the film had no title, it had a October 4, 2013 release date, and about 150 San Francisco-based artists ready to go, so it’s a blow to the animation troops out there…

UPDATE: This Disney deal for Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book keeps getting more interesting. I’ve learned that Henry Selick, who helmed Gaiman’s Coraline, is now attached to direct The Graveyard Book at Disney. Selick, best known for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Pea…