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In an interview with Rolling Stone, J.J. Abrams confirmed a few details about Cloverfield, the film and the monster. The creature was indeed named Clover and was absolutely killed at the film’s end. “Yes, he’s dead. Ultimately the bombs kill him,” he said. The producer admitted that his crew has two theories about the object… [Continue Reading]
Amusement has been delayed yet again by Picturehouse, now going from late 2008 to sometime in 2009. Cryptologists analyzing Paramount Home Video’s Cloverfield DVD have found links to a viral website complete with blurry images and a partial transcript of communications. One look at the image here should give you a clue. For the rest,… [Continue Reading]
Speaking of Cloverfield, which has banked $166 million in worldwide box office receipts, word is spreading that a sequel is definitely on people’s minds. Apparently, new clues to the key characters’ fates can be found hidden in the Blu-ray release coming June 3. Some of the known survivors including Jessica Lucas and Mike Vogel are… [Continue Reading]
Paramount Home Entertainment announced their first round of Blu-ray DVD releases, kicking off in late May. Coming May 20 will the first wave will include There Will Be Blood, Bee Movie, Face/Off and Next. Cloverfield will follow on June 3. On June 24, The Spiderwick Chronicles will be released in both standard and Blu-ray editions… [Continue Reading]
Red Banded Trailers no Longer Taboo What’s the difference between a green-banded trailer and a red-banded trailer? Blood, gore, nudity…the usual. Red-banded trailers have always existed but are restricted and most theater chains have avoided using them. However, now that Judd Apatow and company have been promoting their movies via links to red-banded trailers on… [Continue Reading]
America originally imported its monsters, bringing over vampires and werewolves as Europeans moved here from the “Old World”. We didn’t really have any monsters of our own until H.P. Lovecraft gave us the product of a fevered imagination. Since then, we’ve gotten pretty good at generating creepies and crawlies but monsters of any magnitude seemed… [Continue Reading]
Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction tale Dune has been announced as a Paramount Pictures project. Peter Berg (The Kingdom) will direct with no writers or performers as yet named. Kevin Misher will produce and is said to have spent a year obtaining the rights from the Herbert Estate. Dune has not only spawned numerous… [Continue Reading]
Word has begun to leak across the web that the Aliens vs. Predator franchise is going for the trifecta. With the second chapter headed for an April 15 DVD release, 20th Century-Fox is now discussing getting the third installment up and running which makes sense given the $128.8 million the last one hatched worldwide. No… [Continue Reading]
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