Thanks to the top secret trailer and recent viral marketing of JJ Abrams’ new monster movie, it has entered into the top 50 current searches in google and is pulling in a whopping 10.0 on our buzzometer.
So here’s a recap of everything that has been confirmed about this ‘top secret’ project.
JJ Abrams will produce
Directed by Matt Reeves, who worked with Abrams on Felicity and has directed… (ahem)… the Pallbearer
Written by Drew Godard, who has worked on Lost and Alias as well as Buffy and Angel
The cast consists of unknowns
An Abrams source has confirmed that the entire film will be shot in the handy-cam method seen in the trailer and that scenes from the trailer appear in the film. Read the quotes here.
Shooting has already begun
The film will be in cinemas on 18th January 2008
If you’re unemployed or bored, check out www.ethanhaaswasright.com, a viral marketing site with some fiendish riddles that if solved will reveal some videos. Videos that, if you couldn’t be arsed doing all that, you can see here.
Another official site, www.1-18-08.com, is posting pictures from the surprise party that appears in the trailer.
So that’s all that’s been confirmed, but that hasn’t put a cap on the wild speculation that are rife with nerdy salivation. A lot of people think it will turn out to be a Voltron film, based on the idea that about a minute and twenty seconds into the trailer someone yells what sounds like ‘It’s a lion!’
Of course, he actually says ‘Aaagh, it’s alive!’ Plus, if my city was being terrorised by a giant fucking monster, I’d be more likely to scream ‘Oh shit, let’s get the fuck out of here’, rather than ‘oh look, it’s a lion!” Unless of course he happened to be ignoring the carnage around him and was looking at pictures from his trip to the zoo.
The most ridiculous ‘it’s a lion’ theory I’ve read so far was someone’s comment on YouTube that this is actually a teaser for the new Thundercats movie. Yes, I can see it now: ‘Thundercats Take Manhattan.’ Don’t think so.
Stay tuned to the ATTIC for more Cloverfield news as it comes out.
If you are really lucky and care enough, you may find, in the void known only as the Wal-Mart Discount DVD Bin, one famous Chuck Norris film from 1980 called The Octagon. It is noteworthy not because he late Lee Van Cleef is in and is the best actor in the entire film, not because the film was the last Norris film under indie guerilla style studio Americian Cinema (which has a nice featurette on the DVD about the rise and fall of the studio), which could make an entertaining film all of itself, but rather, this is the only known film where Norris goes up against a terrorist camp run by ninjas. (more…)
Gone, Baby Gone is Ben Affleck’s directorial debut… What? Hello? Anyone still reading or have you fled in terror? Ok, here’s the good news: it’s looking very good. Based on Mystic River author Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, it follows two Boston detectives investigating the kidnapping of a little girl. Younger Affleck spawn Casey is holding down the main role, which marks a surprisingly dramatic turn for someone who we associate with happy-go-lucky roles such as one of the Ocean’s 11/12/13. Judging from the trailer, he seems to be playing it pretty low-key, but competently. This will make or break Casey, particularly with the heavyweight supporting cast of Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris. The film looks good; we liked Mystic River and this seems to be aiming for the same visual look and feel. One to watch, wethinks.
Someone in the JJ Abrams pipeline has confirmed some details about the top secret ‘Cloverfield’ project.
“Abrams is very active on this one, as he plans to be on all Bad Robot projects,” he says. “The only things he’s been involved with which he hasn’t really had any creative role were What About Brian and Six Degrees — both shows that existed before Bad Robot really opened for business (meaning, when he put the team together).
“Cloverfield is an idea Abrams had over a year ago, which he then sold to Paramount. The point-of-view thing (Handicam) is the whole movie. Scenes from the trailer are in the film. Abrams got a really talented guy (Drew Goddard) to write (they’d worked together on Alias and, presently, Lost), and Matt Reeves to direct (they co-created Felicity and he’s pretty damn genius-level).
“Bad Robot and Paramount will be announcing the real title shortly.”
Any Guardian sit-down worth its salt has to include a not-so subtle evaluation of the star's interview habits, and this new one with Maggie Gyllenhaal is no exception. "She sits directly opposite me, her feet planted firmly on the floor," the interviewer tells us. "She asks for a camomile tea and coolly, in a tone that brooks no argument, requests that the assembled public relations people leave the room while we conduct the interview." After this evaluation, it's off to the races, with Gyllenhaal delving into everything from her trepidation about doing Secretary -- "in the wrong hands, in even slightly the wrong hands, even in just slightly less intelligent hands, this movie could say something really weird" -- to everything that went into her performance in Sherrybaby. She's especially frank when it comes to the movie's sex scenes. "I find those scenes hard to watch," she says. "But when I was making them, I was thinking how Sherry would be thinking: I've been in prison for three years, I want to c*me."
Gyllenhaal also owns up to some tussles with directors over the years, but she's too polite to name names. When asked about what her most difficult acting experience has been so far, she replies that she once "realized very early on in a shoot that I was at odds with the director, and I had to go through the whole shoot trying to figure out how to stay alive as an actress, when I was being squashed by the director." For the record, it wasn't Oliver Stone -- she says that she loved working with him, and describes him as being "nuts, but totally inspiring." As for the movie she's shooting right now, The Dark Knight, Gyllenhaal has nothing but praise for how she's being treated. "Doing Batman has shocked me at every turn. When I started, I thought 'Well, it's a huge movie, I'll just do my best to put what I can into it. But, in fact, they've been really hungry for my ideas, for my views. It's great! They've been asking for more!"
IN THEATRES JUNE 29, 2007<br><br>Michael Cunningham (author of THE HOURS) lends his screenwriting skills to Lajos Koltai\’s EVENING. This time, Cunningham adapts a book by Susan Minot for the big screen. Vanessa Redgrave plays Ann Grant, who in her last hours retells the highlights of her life to an audience made up of her daughters, with Claire Danes playing a younger version of the protagonist.
IN THEATRES JUNE 22, 2007 (Limited)<br><br>America\’s most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore\’s other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation\’s health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on how our nation\’s medical care system became so ravaged and unfair, Moore interviews a series of individuals and families who have had their lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even a legitimate discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it\’s simply impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her mother\’s health insurance wasn\’t accepted at a nearby hospital. Moore smartly allows this and other stories to be told with little or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and deep sadness. <br><br>Of course, SICKO isn\’t a PBS documentary, it\’s a Michael Moore movie, and his fingerprints are all over it. Moore visits countries that have universal health care–spectacularly so when he takes several World Trade Center workers to Guantanamo Bay (and then to Cuba) to receive health care that they were denied in the United States–and presents a compelling argument for adopting a similar system in the States. Moore\’s ultimate purpose here is to compel Americans to care for one another, and it\’s a simple request that shockingly must be made via a major motion picture, making SICKO essential viewing.
On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle — but he never figured on an old-school “analog” fly in the “digital” ointment: John McClane. No mask. No cape. No problem.
Thanks to the top secret trailer and recent viral marketing of JJ Abrams’ new monster movie, it has entered into the top 50 current searches in google and is pulling in a whopping 10.0 on our buzzometer.
If you are really lucky and care enough, you may find, in the void known only as the Wal-Mart Discount DVD Bin, one famous Chuck Norris film from 1980 called The Octagon. It is noteworthy not because he late Lee Van Cleef is in and is the best actor in the entire film, not because the film was the last Norris film under indie guerilla style studio Americian Cinema (which has a nice featurette on the DVD about the rise and fall of the studio), which could make an entertaining film all of itself, but rather, this is the only known film where Norris goes up against a terrorist camp run by ninjas. 
Someone in the JJ Abrams pipeline has confirmed some details about the top secret ‘Cloverfield’ project.-(4).jpg)
Any Guardian sit-down worth its salt has to include a not-so subtle evaluation of the star's interview habits, and 
