There are Christmas movies, and there are Halloween movies, and then there are movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas that are a bit harder to classify.
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Disney announced yesterday that it planned to adapt Neil Gaiman’s dark children’s novel The Graveyard Book, following off the back of previous Gaiman adaptation Coraline. Apparently keen to replicate the box-office and critical success of the latter, the studio have hired Coraline director Henry Selick to helm the production.