J.J. Abrams’s ‘Cloverfield’: Okay, Maybe There Are RaptorsAin’t it Cool News has purported new plot details from J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield (or Monstrous or 1-18-08 or Overnight or whatever it’s called) which seem to corroborate what we told you last week about the movie featuring — in addition to the big monster— multiple smaller raptorlike ones.
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Is This the Monster from J.J. Abrams’s ‘Cloverfield’?Some clever nerd on the Unfiction forum discovered that if you take the Cloverfield (a.k.a. Monstrous, a.k.a. 1-18-08, etc.) movie poster and mirror it, the smoke clouds above Manhattan almost look like a monster.
Secret J.J. Abrams Movie Finally Has a Title — A Stupid One!Today, nerds on the Internet turned up these crappy camera-phone pictures of the purported theatrical poster, which apparently reveals the title: Monstrous. You know, because it has a monster in it.
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J.J. Abrams’s ‘Cloverfield’: The Trades and the Blogs InvestigateYesterday we told you about the trailer for the new J.J. Abrams–produced monster movie, which features shaky camera-phone footage of the Statue of Liberty’s head getting blown off. (Maybe the monster is some kind of enormous John Rambo!) Today the trades jump on the story, with few results, while the movie blogs continue their yeoman’s work of digging into Cloverfield’s viral marketing campaign.
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J.J. Abrams Has an Awesome New Monster Movie, and You Can’t Know Its TitleFilmjunk reports on that crazy unnamed J.J. Abrams–produced trailer that preceded showings of Transformers this week. The very cool, Blair Witch–style teaser, which shows “cameraphone footage” of a New York party being interrupted by a huge Midtown explosion and some kind of expanding monster-like attack, ends with a brief flicker of the unnamed movie’s credits, revealing little other than that Abrams, brainiac behind Lost, is the producer, and that Drew Goddard, a Lost (and, formerly, Angel) writer is responsible for the screenplay. Oh, and that it comes out on January 18, 2008.