**UPDATE** The site is almost definitely a fake as there is a link to a forum at the bottom claiming to be a sponsor. A clear by-product of exploiting the buzz generating Cloverfield.
Thanks to Sheila (working for Paramount?) for pointing us to this new site www.parasitemovie.com, linking to the previous two Cloverfield sites and displaying simply the title ‘The Parasite’ with a timer counting down to 24 days from now. Not sure if it’s official ye, though.
‘The Parasite’ could be the official title for the movie and it’s likely that the timer is counting down to the release of a new trailer.
Or The Parasite could be the name of the monster and it will be revealed in 24 days.
Whatever it is, ‘The Parasite’ sounds a damn sight cooler than Cloverfield and we know where we’re going to be in 24 days, 6 hours and 48 minutes from now.
Whether this one is real or not, hats off to Abrams and co. for this ingenius viral marketing and one of the coolest trailers we’ve ever seen.
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.
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.”
1. Don’t EVER try and cop a feel off John McClane’s daughter! What are you, stupid?
2. Bald is the new hair.
3. What? You’ve discovered that the government’s defence network is susceptible to computer attack? Nobody will listen to you? You’re concerned about the welfare of your fellow Americans? Well, why not SCARE THE SHIT out of them all and kill hundreds of innocent people?
4. The nerdy computer hacker ALWAYS gets the girl.
5. The girl is ALWAYS the daughter of a crazy mutherfucker that just saved your life ten times. But if you save his life, you might be in with a shot at boning her.
6. People who insist on calling themselves ‘The Warlock’ will inevitably live in their mother’s basement.
7. It’s ok to beat up women as long as they know kung-fu.
8. Jet-fighter pilots will blow up entire bridges and as many civilian cars as they can until they get their man!
Dave Corkery Thanks to an increasingly worrying trend of 80s regurgitation (McGyver film…. go ooooon), Die Hard is back. But rather than shy away from numbered titles like Rocky 6 (Rocky Balboa) and Rambo 4 (John Rambo), McClane is proud of his roots and so we have the simple and effective title of Die Hard 4.0 (or the wanky Live Free or Die Hard in the US.)
First reported figures are indicating that Michael Bay’s Transformers has taken in over $8.1 million on its opening day and a further $29.5 million dollars on Tuesday. Which, for the calculator-less among us, amounts to a total of $38 million in it’s first 28 hours on screen and furthermore, has bagged Bay and his robots the biggest Tuesday opening of all time, topping the wretched Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest by nearly $14 million.
Now the bad news: we in the Republic of Ireland and the UK can’t open our wallets to Michael Bay along with the rest of America until the 27 July. That’s a depressing 3 and a half weeks of robot-free time to pass. However, there are ways for the super-nerdy among us to pass the time (presuming you’re a big enough Transformers fan not to have a job or social life):
1. Rewatch the original Transformers movie once a day and pour a bit of your beer onto the carpet every time Optimus Prime dies, whilst saying ‘for my homes.’ (If you’re too young to drink beer, then…. How have you even heard of the Transformers? You should be watching… Pokemon or something)
2. Make a mixed tape in honour of Soundwave.
3. Bring out all your old Transformers toys and arrange them in hilarious sexual positions. Then laugh to yourself, sigh and utter ‘I’m so alone.’
4. Change your name to Rodimus Prime by deed pole.
There’s been a lot of internet buzz about a JJ Abrams monster movie going under the working title of Cloverfield. This film has been kept a major secret and nobody had heard of it before a teaser trailer was screened before showings of Transformers in the States.
No official trailer could be found online… until now. Some camera-armed super-pirate has caught it and uploaded it onto YouTube for all to enjoy. The quality is obviously pretty poor, but the effect still comes across. Check out the trailer below (and hurry before it’s taken down)
This top-secret hype building is marketing at its best and already me and the rest of the internet excited about what the hell this film could turn out to be. Rumour has it that the entire film will be shot in the Blair-Witch handy-cam method that is employed in the trailer, but I personally think that these rumours are as substantial as a silent fart. The technique is much more suited to this teaser trailer.
AICN are reporting that the as yet untitled film will be directed and written by Abrams collaborators Matt Reeves and Drew Godard respectively. According to the trailer, we can expect it to hit cinemas on the 18th January 2008. Get excited.
**UPDATE** Paramount got to it and the trailer has been taken down.
More from our list of the Top 50 films of the last 50 years. Today, Dave tackles 1977-1986. But can he avoid putting in such nostalgic favourites as Police Academy 1, 2 and 3? Yes. Yes, he can.
1977-1986
Dave Corkery
10. Airplane! (1980)
Airplane! should come with a government health warning. With a joke at least every second, it’s sometimes difficult to breathe while watching. Jim Abrahams and David Zucker are single-handedly responsible for creating the spoof movie as we know it (ya, Mel Brooks is good, but these guys are better) Despite having encouraged countless pathetic imitations, Airplane! remains untarnished and endlessly watchable to this day.
Check out the first trailer for Hitman below, courtesy of /Film. They don’t seem to like it for some reason, but over here, we’re all for cautious optimism followed by crushing disappointment when it comes to video-game to movie adaptations.
Hitman is the tale of a genetically engineered assassin (Timothy Olyphant) who goes by the moniker Codename 47. The games were a lot of smart fun and let’s just hope that the film doesn’t go the way of the Resident Evils and tailor the entire movie for mentally challenged, explosion hungry 13 year olds. On the upside, at least Paul (Wank-Stain) Anderson didn’t get his claws into Hitman or we’d most certainly have a crap-fest on our hands.
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.
Someone in the JJ Abrams pipeline has confirmed some details about the top secret ‘Cloverfield’ project.
There’s been a lot of internet buzz about a JJ Abrams monster movie going under the working title of Cloverfield. This film has been kept a major secret and nobody had heard of it before a teaser trailer was screened before showings of Transformers in the States.
Check out the first trailer for Hitman below, courtesy of /Film. They don’t seem to like it for some reason, but over here, we’re all for cautious optimism followed by crushing disappointment when it comes to video-game to movie adaptations.
