Dakota Fanning’s Coraline is drawing streaming viewers again, 17 years after its 2009 release.

Meanwhile, StreamScope’s latest accessible snapshot places it inside the top five on three American platforms. Specifically, its October 27 chart lists Coraline third on Hulu, fourth on Peacock, and fifth on HBO Max. Beyond those rankings, the film carries a 91% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes .

Dakota Fanning’s Coraline needed 28 matching puppets

Behind the scenes, director Henry Selick’s team built a world viewers could almost reach out and touch. Instead of using one model for every shot, artists created 28 identical Coraline puppets .

Typically, ten people spent three to four months building a single version of the character. Together, those copies allowed animators to work on different scenes without waiting for the same puppet.

Beyond their tiny faces, the figures needed clothes that behaved like real outfits.…