The Nightmare Before Christmas
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 The Nightmare Before Christmas facts

• It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences
• Danny Elfman wrote the songs and film score, and provided the singing voice of Jack
• The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens and Glenn Shadix
• The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation
• With the success of Vincent in the same year, Walt Disney Studios began to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special
• Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he made a development deal with Disney
• Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco
• Disney released the film through the Touchstone Pictures banner because the studio believed the film would be "too dark, and scary for kids
• The Nightmare Before Christmas was met with both critical and financial success
• The film has since been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and re-released annually in the Disney Digital 3-D format from 2006 until 2009, making it the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3D