The Nightmare Before Christmas, 3D
October 1st 2007 06:58
Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.
Nightmare originally opened in wide release on October 29, 1993. Although it received generally positive reviews by critics, with a 97% "fresh" at Rotten Tomatoes, the film struggled to find an audience. It eventually earned a respectable $53 million at the box office, but still was not nearly as successful as many other Disney films of that time.
The film won the 1994 Golden Globe Award for best original score. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, but lost to Industrial Light & Magic's dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
When The Nightmare Before Christmas was released on video on September 30, 1994, it gradually gained a cult following. In the late 90's, its following boomed; it has since become a mainstream hit, and is even considered a Halloween/Christmas classic.
A preview for a 2007 3D re-release was shown along with Meet The Robinsons. The 2007 theatre release in North America is October, 20, 2007.
There has been talk of adapting the show for Broadway.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Nightmare Before Christmas.
**This movie poster is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
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