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Selick and Peele wrote Wendell & Wild, which world premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and will serve as the opening night film for the L.A.-based animation festival Animation Is Film.

Stop-motion animator and director Henry Selick has had a pretty momentous past few months with two of his biggest movies, Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas, reaching major milestones.