Check out the official Slusho Store for some Christmas gifts for the Cloverfield fan. You can grab Slusho shirts in light or dark for $18.00. The Slusho hats run $22 and the Slusho hoodie runs $28.00.
There's a $10 Off coupon for a hat and shirt if you use the code HAPPYCOMBO at the checkout.
The (new) official site for the Cloverfield Movie has updated their menu to include a plot summary.
While this Cloverfield Movie summary does not really offer new information, it does pin down some clues that had us all wondering. The Cloverfield Monster is officially pegged as being the size of a skyscraper and the video style of the Cloverfield Teaser Trailer looks to be in utilized for the picture.
"Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city.
Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives."
Via Flickfilosopher, a critics take on the Cloverfield marketing.
Cloverfield is back. Remember the trailer for an unnamed movie everyone was so excited about a few months back, the one before Transformers about a mysterious monster attacking New York and knocking the head off the Statue of Liberty? There’s a second trailer now: it debuted before Beowulf over the Thanksgiving weekend and immediately afterward started showing up on YouTube in an impossible-to-watch cell-phone-cam version.
I watched it anyway, and found myself getting a little cheesed off. Not about the movie itself, but about how Paramount is marketing this. I can’t go into a press screening without having my bag rifled and my body wanded in search of cameras and other recording devices -- when I upgraded my cell phone recently, I made a point of getting one without a camera in it so I wouldn’t have to check it with the minimum-wage “security” guards who regularly harass we critics and our guests at screenings. It’s not like those pristine DVDs and downloads of new movies are coming from critics sneaking their cameraphones into press screenings, but we get subjected to this anyway.
But Cloverfield makes it clear, I think, that Paramount wanted geeks to camcord that new trailer, wanted it to end up on YouTube. Perhaps no one in Paramount’s marketing department realized that the first teaser trailer would be such a viral hit on the Web this summer, but they had to know the second one would be. This is the first movie for which “piracy” is a planned part of the marketing.
You can now watch that new trailer (as well as the teaser) in crisp, clear, “official” versions at Apple.com, and it’s even more obvious that it was not primarily intended to be seen in theaters but in a format you can freeze and rewind and rewatch. Lots of intriguing stuff slips by a mere frames. And, of course, you don’t have to bother with analyzing it yourself: All the Cloverfield nerds have done it for you. At CloverfieldNews.com, there’s an ongoing discussion about what each and every shadowy image and garbled sound might be. The sprawling Cloverfield fan community has even ferreted out a connection between the movie and Heroes.
Some folks, like my fellow Film.com contributor Eric D. Snider, are tired of all the coyness on the part of Cloverfield producer JJ Abrams and all the literal gameplaying required to figure out what the damn movie is about. I figure the gameplaying isn’t meant for us grownups but for kids with tons of time on their hands. Who else could be able to post something like this: “For the last few weeks, we have been devoting all of our time to the myspace accounts of the characters.” Seriously? All your time? To a movie that hasn’t even opened yet, and might turn out to suck. (That site, Cloverfield Project, hasn’t been updated since August, so perhaps someone got a life.)
I wonder if all these folks realize that they’ve become unpaid marketing managers for a multibillion-dollar corporation. (source)
After being immersed in the 1-18-08/Cloverfield situation for months, it's nice to see the Cloverfield viral aspect take off. Up to now with the release of the 2nd trailer it has been rather mundane, with a few uninteresting MySpace pages and "Jamie Loves Teddy" page that may not even be related.
On the front page of Yahoo! this morning there is a feature post on the Cloverfield Movie. A small section is dedicated to the teaser and full length trailer. Also a very sparse picture section with only the poster and one picture when I checked it.
The bulk of the Yahoo! spread is centered around the Internet buzz. Yahoo! runs their buzz section based on Internet searches, kinda like Google Trends. Only Yahoo! breaks it down more like a blog post. They break down the keywords, like 1-18-08 and Cloverfield Clues along with Cthulhu to show you what people are looking for.
official Cloverfield poster
The long Thanksgiving weekend is over and I'm still full of turkey and stuffing. Everything from my template to sitemeter to youtube was down at least part of the weekend which is extremely frustrating.
Another site that was down was the Tagruato Corp. website (see: TAGRUATO IS DESTROYING OUR OCEANS) which was "Hacked" and an image with the caption "Tagruato is destroying the world's oceans" was put in place of everything.
Today, the site is still not up but there is what looks like an "Under Construction" symbol present. The previous picture that the "hackers" put up is riddled with clues, according to many fans. There are roman numerals and names hidden in the drawings.
For a more detailed description of those findings check out this post at Cloverfield Clues.
hacked tagruato website pictureThe original template for my site has been fixed and as you can see is up and running. Hopefully, there won't be that problem again.
While I was doing the usual run through of the various Cloverfield related sites I saw that the Tagruato Corp site has been set up to looked "hacked."
It looks like environmental concerns, which have been debated as a possible storyline in various circles, is starting to show up.
The "hacker" claimes Tagruato Corp is destroying the oceans with its drilling and exploitation. An image is set in place of the website which used to have a nice, multi-page site with detailed descriptions of Tagruato and its subsidiaries, which include Slusho.
The image in place shows the chairman with devil horns photoshoped in along with various pictures drawn into the blank areas. The ocean is dirtied up and includes a nice rendention of the famous "Japanese Wave" woodblock print, The Great Wave, by Katsushika Hokusai.
Also drawn in are a crab, jelly fish, really ugly fish, and a octopus. The image is also labeled image #9 which makes me wonder if they have more in line to plug into this "Hacked" theme or not.
/Film got their mitts on the new official Cloverfield Poster. The title has been added to the bottom instead of the top as earlier this summer (See: )
Also noted in the unFiction area, there seems to be a rather obvious lack of Liberty Island with that black shape below the Statue of Liberty. However, that is just the base of the statue blacked out to give that illusion.
jawbone at UnFiction has found that the Tagruato Corp. site has updated. Tagruato is the parent company of Slusho and one of the spin offs in the Cloverfield universe. Here's the info on the updated information:http://tagruato.jp/investors.php?story=news_07_11_21
Which leads you here...
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=372553
to see this..
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee91/jawbone00/pic.jpg
NBC's hit TV show, Heroes, has more in common with Cloverfield than Greg Grunberg. Director/producer Greg Beeman has posted some relevant pictures in regard to Cloverfield.
I noticed in the comments that blkrose saw these pictures of the Heroes online and that someone else on unFiction found that Beeman staged various cast members of Heroes with Slusho cups on his blog.
Here's how Beeman described the photos:
"Now, the next group of photos falls into the “don’t ask/don’t tell” category. I credit Greg Yaitanes for staging all these pix, under the supervision of Joe Pokaski. Their cultural significance will become clear in the coming months, so… pay attention!"
Just saw the first Cloverfield this morning on Yahoo! Sports.
Cloverfield now officially has its own website.
With the latest trailer released this week, the J.J. Abrams produced monster flick was officially given its name as "Cloverfield."
With the addition of the Hi-Resolution trailer to the Apple trailer site, the domain name cloverfieldmovie.com went active. Thanks for the Anonymous tip whoever you may be.
For now the cloverfieldmovie.com site only redirects to the Apple trailer site, but we can expect some updates soon.
A quick viewing of the new Hi-Resolution Cloverfield trailer had something strike me as odd. I have yet to check with UnFiction to see what all they dug up, but hopefully some of these can be useful.
First off, did they redo the entire scene where Rob enters his Farewell Party?
Sure enough they did.
The opening shot of both trailers shows Rob entering a surprise party. In the latest trailer his hair is sticking up a little and he's got a new, geeky friend.
Most telling are the touch ups done to the Statue of Liberty's head. Note the glossy look in the new trailer with the added claw marks. Also, a muted green look is added to the trailer instead of the original , reddish street light look
Rob introduces himself. The image is blurred and some digital code-looking jargon covers the screen.
Destruction of the city.
Jets fly from explosion in city.
Cell phones still work. Rob reaches Beth.
FDNY Paramedics crew helps victims.
Escape from New York. People flee across Brooklyn Bridge.
Military hospital with victims.
Flee the city. Someone shouts out to head away from the center of the city.
Inside store, surrender/arrest?
MP/soldier with blurred face. Rob to left?
Arrested or sick?
Rob helps Marlena through rubble.
Victims aftermath
Rob and Hud in store, hiding and saying "it's alive."
Windows crash
Hazmat camp, Marlena being taken.
More code. Hazmat scrub down?
Evacuating to helicopters
Armed soldiers with Night vision
Cloverfield Monster walks past buildings.
City in ruins
Fleeing medical area after something crashes near ceiling
Escape with soldier
Rob has some gunk on his shirt.
Entering Hazmat/Military tent
Donuts and tanks. Soldiers on the attack.
Running to safety in subway.
Noises heard in subway
Fleeing dark hallway
Soldiers attack
Soldiers attack Cloverfield Monster.
Bridge collapses. Note Time of 9:56. Next night?
Statue of Liberty, sans Head
Handsome cab w/out cabbie. Destruction in background.
The High-Resolution and HD versions of the new Cloverfield Trailer have been updated to the official Apple Trailers site.
Cloverfield Monster
I've always enjoyed the simple Cloverfield Poster that was released a few months back. It's simple yet informative. We can see the destruction of the Cloverfield Monster along with the simple release date of 1-18-08.
I was hoping that they wouldn't ruin the poster if they kept it for promotions. Cloverfield Clues got a first look at how they titled the poster now that it has a name, "Cloverfield."
They have added the title nicely to the poster to the bottom part along the water ripples. The Cloverfield title fits rather nicely, unlike the dreaded "Monstrous" poster that popped out in July. Much better.
Until the boys at Bad Robot decide to post the trailer to the official site (which begs the question why wouldn't they put it up in the first place?) we'll have to settle for the YouTube versions. Unfortunately, these get pulled down by the studio but there are enough out there to keep us going.
Here are some updated Cloverfield trailer videos, both embedded and some linked below in case some get taken down.
More new pictures from Cloverfield keep rolling in. This time a nice chap at UnFiction has tipped all of us onto a site called Beyond Hollywood which has 6 nice, HQ pics as seen below.
(from BH) "Meanwhile, some new images from the movie have arrived in our in-box thanks to reader Garth. The new images (or at least, they’re new to me) still don’t show the movie’s creatures, just a lot of promo stills of characters running, a soldier firing a bazooka, and survivors filming themselves. Which makes you wonder — if weird looking creatures are trying to eat you, would you really be taking the time to film everything? Seriously?" (source)
I noticed earlier today when I added the images to the Lizzy Caplan (see: Cloverfield Pictures And A Cast Member Talks) that the pictures were labeled with numbers and not in sequence. When I tried to play around and see if the other numbers came up with different pictures I hit a wall and made a mental note to try again tonight.
It turns out the original 3 pictures that came with the Black Book article now have grown to 12 beautiful Cloverfield movie pictures. There's now a link to a gallery of pictures that I swear was not there this morning. You can get a great sense of the chaos of the evening and it looks like ole' Lizzy will have a hard time getting through quarantine.There are a couple of pics of her coughing up blood which makes me thing of back when all this buzz on the movie started that it was being called "The Parasite."
IESB.net is the first major site I've come across to post a copy of the new Cloverfield trailer. It's easy to get one on YouTube. It's just hard to keep one there.
Even though it is still a bootleg cut, the IESB.net site is huge and it will be interesting to see if they get a C&D letter from Paramount. (via 1-18-08 aka Cloverfield Blog)
(via 1-18-08 blog) New Cloverfield pictures and a new trailer. Christmas has come early. A few nice pictures accompany BlackBook's interview of Lizzy Caplan, one of the stars of Cloverfield.
Lizzy raised my eyebrows with this comment about speculation on the movie:
"BB: How did J.J. Abrams ensure that the story wasn’t leaked? Did you get to take the script home with you?
LC: They’re actually coming by to pick it up today. We had to swap out every new set of pages with the old pages. They’re bright red, the scripts, and watermarked with our names. So, nobody wanted to be the one to accidentally leak it. They’re pretty hardcore about all of that. I don’t know how they’ve managed to keep it so secretive, though, because people obviously want to know more. And nobody knows anything. The speculation is very inaccurate."
BB: What are some of the more ridiculous speculations?LC: There’s all this YouTube stuff about analyzing the trailer. People are seeing things that aren’t there and making up stuff that isn’t true. There’s this one still of me and Jessica Lucas, who’s another actress in the film, and people thought there was some crazy lion behind us. But people are wrong.
The good news is the boys at unFiction have unearthed a fine, HQ Cloverfield #2 trailer. The bad news is that there have been about 3 others pulled within an hour of being put up. Let's hope this one stays up for awhile.
The cell-phone version that's been circulating around today is comprised of 3 parts. Someone put them together and you'll see that clip on YouTube and some other sites. Because it was cut into 1/3's it lost portions at the transitions.
So, this clip is the full deal with the entire video with much better quality. (perm linky)
I've had a chance to see the new Cloverfield Trailer that will be in front of the Beowulf showings starting this week. Yes, it's legit. And yes, it's really cool.
The description of the new Cloverfield Trailer is pretty much how CHUD described it a few weeks back. Also, the title of the film is "Cloverfield," as mentioned in the same post. Also, we can start calling them "Cloverfield Monsters" with the 's' since there seems to be more than one.
No doubt copies of the trailer will bombard YouTube and the other online video hosts over the next few days. And no doubt they will be pulled very fast by Paramount Studios legal team. There's really no sense posting a video that won't be up for more than an hour, but I'll keep trying.
For now the only copy I have is a crappy cell-phone version that really is not worth watching. There are too many cuts and clips in the trailer that you have to see a high-quality version to take it all in. If you didn't know what was going on than you wouldn't get much from it.
I'd post that one but I'm on Paramount's shit-list and they told me not to post anymore 'unauthorized' pictures/videos on the movie.
The trailer looks great and will no doubt bring back the buzz to Cloverfield. A nice shot of the Statue of Liberty minus the head is near the end before the title of the movie, "Cloverfield," comes on. The characters of the movie keep their cameras rolling to make sure their message will be heard.
For a detailed description of the trailer (no video yet, sorry) check out: THE CLOVERFIELD TRAILER - SEEN! >
January is a very slow time for the cinema. That's why a lot of skeptics are eying Cloverfield to bust out and do big numbers for one of the worst movie months.
Studios must have their Oscar contending flicks in by the end of December, at least in limited release. Also, January is the slowest spending month for consumers.
After the holidays and the start of the tax season, can you really blame them?
If Cloverfield/1-18-08 is good enough to live up to the hype it will have a great chance to make some big numbers. For the most part, there is very little competition in the theaters to detract from Cloverfield/1-18-08.
Other movies that open the same week as Cloverfield/1-18-08 are:
Jamie and Teddy has updated their 4th video. This latest video has Jamie doing a little striptease for her boy, Teddy, on camera.
The time is almost here for the new Cloverfield/1-18-08 trailer. If the rumors are correct, we should see the new trailer within a week. There is great speculation that the trailer will be in front of the highly anticipated Beowulf which opens wide Friday, November 16th.
Even though it's a week away, screenings will occur over the next week and I'll be sure to keep an eye out for any early trailer sightings. As for Beowulf, the movie is tracking extremely high and has had a huge buzz around it since images were released showing Angelina Jolie doing her CG modeling.
Having Cloverfield show their new trailer in front of the Beowulf movie should result in a huge spike in Cloverfield/1-18-08 buzz. Keeping that in mind, if the movie decides to live up to its viral expectations, we can only hope they might use this time to leap board a new viral campaign.
If Cloverfield ends up opening with a viral campaign consisting of a few lame MySpace accounts and a "Jamie Loves Teddy" site, I'm gonna be real mad. However, I anticipate some interesting updates to the Tagruato site as well as some mysterious videos popping up closer to the opening date.
The only other J.J. Abrams news going on is his casting for the upcoming Star Trek movie, which should start shooting later this week. This week we see Capt. Christopher Pike getting a face and Spock's Mom cast.
Bruce Greenwood, a prolific working actor who has appeared in "I, Robot," "The Core," and HBO's offbeat drama "John from Cincinnati," will be sitting in the captain's chair in the 2008 "Star Trek" movie directed by J.J. Abrams, which began production Wednesday.
Also, add Winona Ryder to the cast list as Spock's Mother. However, Variety says “Paramount Pictures and director JJ Abrams have set Ryder to play the Vulcan mother of a young Spock.”
Considering Spock's Mother was supposed to be human, I'm not sure if that's a misprint or a plot twist.
What could possibly be more important than news on the upcoming J.J. Abrams flick, Cloverfield /1-18-08?
How about a sequel to one of the greatest surf movies of all time. Yes, they're going to make Point Break 2! We can finally know the fate of Johnny Utah and Bodhi.
Oh, I can die happy now...
While everything else is downhill from there, I guess I'll just have to see what else is going on. Actuall, only a tiny amount of Cloverfield -1-18-08 related news brewing today. Most of J.J.'s news is centered around the Star Trek movie he's making while the Cloverfield/1-18-08 gets a news update once every 2 weeks.
As you may know, the big news this week is the pre-screen of the new Cloverfield/1-18-08 trailer by CHUD. While only time will tell its validity the real fact that only 11 weeks remain until the movie actually hits.
The Bad Robot homepage got a minor update this past week. This is the production unit of J.J. Abrams and it features only a bad robot graphic. The only difference is the picture size. It's about 1/3 the size it used to be and was for years. A small and insignificant update but the fact they are glossing up their homepage (which is linking via the official Apple trailer) might mean some updates coming soon.
Which leads me to this great find by Cloverfield News about one of the production houses, The Third Floor, who is working on the Cloverfield/1-18-08 movie. As a huge fan of cinema and future producer I find the work that The Third Floor does highly interesting and extremely valuable.
The Third Floor does pre-viz, or pre-visulization. Think of it as electronic storyboards where directors can have quick models of their movies created to see how they will look finalized. Very important when you're working with CG monsters and sets. Their work also includes texturing and 3-D tracking.
They have a great sample reel of their movies clips which demonstrates their work. This group is huge and has done animatics for George Lucas on Star Wars III as well as a range of movies from the Narnia series to Cloverfield.
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