1-18-08 Project Cloverfield - Warning! Spoilers

New video footage of the Cloverfield Monster wrecking havoc in the city. Do you recognize the Japanese guy on the right?

Hud, Rob, and Lily find the building where Lily lives and attempt to rescue her. Sadly, the building is heavily damaged and will take a heroic effort to reach Lily.

Rob, Hud, Beth, and Lily try to reach a Midtown safety area. This clip first appeared on Yahoo! last night and is now available online. Sadly, this clip has been edited down to take out the scenes with the Monster. In this scene the group is actually running toward the helicopters to get to safety and they keep running into the Monster. (source)

A 2-minute clip from Cloverfield via MTV. The only drawback is that in the embedded clip below you'll have to sit through a short commercial before viewing. Man, I hate it when they do that!

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Yahoo! Movies has posted a new 1:52 long clip from Cloverfield. This great clip features Rob and the crew trying to get to Beth's apartment. The one problem is that the Cloverfield Monster has sorta gone bonkers on the building and it's not looking so stable. There are really no spoilers and no monster sighting. The clip shows us the characters and how much Rob will go through to save Beth. Including jumping off the roof of a skyscraper.

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The Hollywood Reporter looks at the box office take of Cloverfield when it opens Jan. 18 and hopes to do monster business over the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend. (...more)

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It's not easy to hide a 500-foot monster nowadays. But that's exactly what the filmmakers behind Paramount Pictures' "Cloverfield" have done. Producer J.J. Abrams and company have maintained an air of mystery surrounding the movie and its monster. (...more)

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More pity for the Big Apple as a New York reporter looks at why New York City is such a target for destruction, in the movies that is. (...more)

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The supposed Cloverfield monster picture that as been floating around the Internet is a fake. Horror-movies.ca received an e-mail from an "Avid Reader." Seems that its just a picture from some concept art from a video game. (...more)

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J.J. Abram's other film, the one he's actually directing, will premier it's teaser trailer with Cloverfield on Friday, 1-18-08. Expect it to be online the next Monday. (...more)

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So how did this whole CLOVERFIELD idea start anyway? Well, Paramount Pictures has just answered that question! Check out CLOVERFIELD from the beginning! (...more)


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Cloverfield #9 TV Spot highlights the rats in the subway system.

Environmentalists in Connecticut are worried about the destruction of the Chuai drilling station leaked oil that will contaminate their shores. The English version of the Chuai Station destruction is online finally.

The incident is being coined an environmental disaster as a large deep sea oil rig collapsed in the Atlantic Ocean days ago. With over 300 Tagruato workers at the rig many are still missing and there has been little information as to what caused such a devastating accident.

Cloverfield Commercial #6 - Who Would You Go Back For?

So far I have found 3 Cloverfield TV Commercials. If you find more, feel free to shoot me a link. Otherwise, the 3 TV spots are pretty much in the teaser stages with no new video added. However, on the first one you get a real feel for the "Something has found us" spin. Also note that the voiceover for the trailers is being done by the same guy (or specifically someone like him) who does the ABC voiceovers, namely "Lost." I was waiting for him to say "Next week, on "Lost"...


Cloverfield Commercial #1



Cloverfield Commercial #2



Cloverfield Commercial #3

New Cloverfield Video

Jamie and Teddy video #5 deals with the package Jamie was supposed to receive on Dec. 9th. The UPS man delivers the package which Jamie opens. Included in the items is a "Slusho" hat.


I believe Dennis as Cloverfield Clues dropped the above video onto YouTube. He's also typed out the transcript of the audio tape Jamie plays:

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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."

Cloverfield/1-18-08 Official Website

I get a lot of emails and comments in regard to the true '1-18-08' website which is the official site for the movie. The majority of them are about flipping the pictures over and the roar that occurs about 6 minutes after opening the site up.

Here's a quick summary of the site to help those getting starting on this mysterious movie. To date the film has no official title. Most of us call it 'Cloverfield' (production codename) or '1-18-18' (release date). As of last week, Paramount Studios is referencing the movie no longer as "The Untitled JJ Abrams" movie but is calling it '1-18-08.'

The '1-18-08' website is the official site of the movie. It gained notice back in July a week or two after the trailer appeared before the Transformers. It featured a single picture that you could move but not flip over. Four more pictures would appear and then no updates occurred.

Somewhere in early August it happened that the pictures could be flipped over. There's some writing on 2 of the pictures. August 23rd saw the site go down for a day and redirect toward Paramount Pictures, who is distributing the film. The site came back up later that day with no visible changes.

August 24th saw the audio file of the monster roar for the first time. The sound file was added during the downtime the day before and if you opened up the site and left it untouched you would hear the monster roar about 6 minutes later.

Here is a sample of the roar from the 1-18-08 website so you don't have to wait 6 minutes:

1-18-08 Cloverfield Monster Roar

Cloverfield/1-18-08 Fake Trailer

Someone made a fairly decent fan trailer for '1-18-08' which was released this week. It features a reporter for the news station seen in the original trailer. One viewing of the clip will instantly give you a very amateurish feel with pieces lifted from the original trailer.

However, I can't knock the creators of this fan film too much. They did a good job and so far have put our more this month than JJ Abrams and Co.

Cloverfield/1-18-08 Trailer 2 (Fake)

So when will trailer 2 surface? There have been a couple of rumors that one would show up during the showing of 'Resident Evil' which opened last week or during 'Stardust' a few months back.

The safe money says the trailer will be controlled by JJ Abrams and Paramount. This movie has a lot of buzz and Paramount is probably going to release the trailer (if they have a say) during the opening of one of their movies. 'Resident Evil' was released by Sony and it doesn't make sense to promote the opening of a rival studios film unless they are willing to return to favor.

Dreamworks is currently a part of Paramount so looking at the 2 studios fall release schedules there are a couple of big movies coming out:

Oct 5: The Farrelly Brothers “THE HEARTBREAK KID”
Oct 21: “THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE” A drama staring Halle Berry
Nov 2: “BEE MOVIE” Jerry Seinfeld's CG animated tale
Nov 16: "BEOWULF" Angelina Jolie
Dec 21: “SWEENEY TODD -The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Tim Burton and Johnny Depp

My money is on "Beowulf" for a couple of reasons. First, it's the only film on the list produced only by Paramount (no Dreamworks) and is tracking real high with it's buzz. "Beowulf" has gotten a lot of buzz for its CG-laden retelling of the classic story as well as a huge 'geek' boost from all the CG animation of Angelina Jolie, which was promoted during July's Comic-con.

Second, November 16th is 2 months before the main release date for our movie and a perfect time to kick up the buzz and interest in '1-18-08' during the busy holiday season. The audience for both movies matches up great.

Of course the bad news is that it's still 1 1/2 months away and I don't want to wait that long.

Cloverfield/1-18-08 Special Effects/Monster

Ain't It Cool News (AICN) is giving a report that FX master Phil Tippett is working on the JJ Abrams Project Cloverfield. No details were given and Tippett's been in the business long enough you won't see an accidental leak.

Tippett Studios was formed by the talented Phil who made a great career in Hollywood doing monsters and stop-motion FX for movies. CG is now incorporated into his studio but Phil is well known for creating monster designs. His work has ranged from Star Wars to Starship Troopers

'LOST' Season Four

A quick note about JJ Abrams related 'Lost.' The new fall season has started this week and many of you will not see 'Lost' in the lineup even though it is still active. The producers and ABC have agreed to air the episodes in sequence starting in early February. So, '1-18-08' will have arrived 3 weeks before new episodes of even 'Lost' air.

A new hatch, The Orchid, was exposed during Comic-con last summer involving more training videos:

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