The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Very interesting is the stop motion feature "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"
Stop motion shorts and features seem to be "in fashion" those years. Not only are they features films released over the world but they also have big budgets and made using advanced technology at the same time using traditional techniques.

Just to name a few [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stop_motion_films]

The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005
Corpse Bride 2005
Coraline 2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists 2012
ParaNorman 2012
Frankenweenie 2012



The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (released in North America and Australia as The Pirates! Band of Misfits), is a 2012 British/American 3-D stop-motion animated adventure comedy film produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Peter Lord, the director of Chicken Run.
The film is based on the first two books from Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling. It is the fifth feature film by Aardman Animations, and its first stop-motion clay animated feature released in 3D.

Budget $55 million
Box office $113,632,491

                                   




                                   
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Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion 3D fantasy/horror children's film based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novel of the same name. It was produced by Laika and distributed by Focus Features. Written and directed by Henry Selick, it was released widely in US theaters on February 6, 2009, after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival.

Budget:         $60 million
Box office:    $124,596,398
Directed by:  Henry Selick

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Fantastic Mr. Fox, Behind the scenes.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 stop-motion animated film based on the Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name. This story is about a fox who steals food each night from three mean and wealthy farmers. The farmers are fed up with Mr Fox's theft and try to kill him, so they dig their way into the foxes' home. However, the animals are able to outwit the farmers and live underground.

Development on the project began in 2004 as collaboration between Anderson and Henry Selick under Revolution Studios. In 2007 Revolution folded, Selick left to direct Coraline, and work on the film moved to 20th Century Fox. Production began in London in 2007. It was released in late 2009 to critical acclaim.

The film features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $46,471,023
Directed by: Wes Anderson

                                        

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