{"id":281,"date":"2009-02-15T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:03:48","slug":"film-tweets-coraline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/film-tweets-coraline\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Tweets: &#8220;Coraline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coraline.jpg\" alt=\"coraline\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-282\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend especially, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=coraline\">hundreds of tweets<\/span> were posted about &#8220;Coraline.&#8221; These text messages via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> say a lot with a little about the biggest little film in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline, is on there:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interviews over. Getting ready to leave for CORALINE screening. Irish journalists remain my favourites in the world: actual conversations. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/\">neilhimself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1213006016\">2\/15 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comedian Demetri Martin chimed in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flashmob at Arclight for 3D Coraline? Bring buttons for your eyes. Black is traditional. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DemetriMartin\/\">DemetriMartin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DemetriMartin\/status\/1203872150\">2\/12 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jon Hodgman, actor, also uses Twitter. One of the tweets at Hodgman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@hodgman have you seen it yet? The bloke playing the father is really good. You should check it out. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/\">neilhimself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1189580806\">2\/8 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Little details that often chime up on Twitter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tinycoincidence dept &#8212; noticed this evening that I signed the CORALINE movie contract on Feb 7 2001 &#8211; 8 yrs to the day before it came out. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/\">neilhimself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1188454377\">2\/8 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coraline opened on the 6th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good morning world. Um, if you don&#8217;t have plans today there&#8217;s a film called CORALINE you should check out, trust me on this. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/\">neilhimself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1184008637\">2\/6 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now consider a second (or first) ticket. I get no extra $ from your ticket. But it sends a message that America is hungry for Gaiman\/Selick &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgman\/\">hodgman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgman\/status\/1185755575\">2\/6 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coraline-boxes.jpg\" alt=\"coraline-boxes\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-283\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notcot.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/coraline_50_box.php\">NotCot<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/superpunch.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/ten-coraline-boxes.html\">Super Punch<\/a> for pictures of most of the boxes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Originally, part of the marketing of the film was to send 50 hand-crafted boxes to 50 craft-savvy and film-friendly bloggers. Each mystery box also had a clue to access <a href=\"http:\/\/coraline.com\/\">Coraline.com<\/a>, which at the time needed a password to access. (They ended up being stopmotion, buttoneyes, puppetlove, armpithair, moustachio, and sweaterxxs.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fabulous campaign for &#8216;Coraline&#8217; &#8211; 50 individualized boxes for bloggers with unique trinkets from character creation. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HcB3\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/HcB3<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eDougherty\/\">eDougherty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eDougherty\/statuses\/1192658044\">2\/9 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And today marked the last day of the 3-week exhibit at San Francisco&#8217;s Cartoon Art Museum, which featured nearly 80 props created by over 300 artists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the cinema and the Cartoon Art Museum for an awesome day of Coraline. The craftsmanship is truly inspiring- great fodder for kinetic art! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mprados\/\">mprados<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mprados\/statuses\/1214178992\">2\/15 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Finally released into the YouTube HD wild &#8212; the Koumpounophobia Trailer (the one with me talking about buttons) http:\/\/bit.ly\/msLe &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/\">neilhimself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1161055093\">1\/29 tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The film&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile?user=CoralineFilms&#038;view=videos\">YouTube channel<\/a> has all of the making-of videos including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iP-umkLRC9A\">&#8220;Meet the Cast,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=af4lmOQmdjs\">&#8220;Biggest Smallest Movie&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VT5MFdAB7fI\">&#8220;Miniature Knitter.&#8221;<\/a> You can watch &#8220;Koumpounophobia,&#8221; below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Koumpounophobia HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQC0QVXa33o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend especially, hundreds of tweets were posted about &#8220;Coraline.&#8221; These text messages via Twitter say a lot with a little about the biggest little film in theaters. Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline, is on there: Interviews over. Getting ready to leave for CORALINE screening. Irish journalists remain my favourites in the world: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}