Cloverfield Hype is Huge as Premiere Approaches

As suggested before, events in the Cloverfield world are moving along in real time with the movie release. An attack has already happened in the Atlantic, Tagruato has new press releases, TIDOwave has new postings, jamielovesteddy has videos involing eating some seabed nectar, Rob posted on his myspace about landing a job with Slusho!, and invitations are being sent for Rob's goodbye party to movie fans in our real world.

I'm on a list to see an early screening tomorrow, and barring any trouble getting there after school (90 miles away), I'll be posting a review on KidReviewer.com.

Here are some of the latest news stories about the launch:

CLOVERFIELD - The BeginningIESB.NET, CA - 32 minutes agoSo how did this whole CLOVERFIELD idea start anyway? Well, Paramount Pictures has just answered that question! “We live in a time of great fear. ...

Director Matt Reeves Reveals How 'Cloverfield' Was Born In The ...Defamer.com, CA - 7 hours agoAs much of the geeky-gened moviegoing world tries to decode the mysteries of Cloverfield, obsessively connecting the push-pin dots on bulletin boards ...

Cloverfield Monster Details Revealed/FILM, MA - 50 minutes agoThe visual effects for “Cloverfield” were produced under the direction of visual effects supervisors Kevin Blank, Eric Leven of Tippett Studio and Michael ...

'Cloverfield' monster movie hoping for monster business
"Cloverfield" conversation: This may be the awards season (or what's left of it anyway), but for films opening now the name of the game is boxoffice rewards not awards.

'Cloverfield' has one huge secretNew York Daily News, NY - 19 hours agoBut that's exactly what the filmmakers behind Paramount Pictures' "Cloverfield" have done. Producer JJ Abrams and company have maintained an air of mystery ...


LAist Interview: Matt Reeves, Director of Cloverfield
LAist: Over the years you have been very selective in your choice of projects. What made you want to direct your first monster movie?
Matt Reeves: Well, I guess it had to do with the approach. At the time, there was a project I had written and will be directing called The Invisible Woman. I was putting together the cast and we had an actress cast for the lead and then she fell out twice and it just didn’t work scheduling-wise. During this time, J.J. Abrams had been putting together this deal for his new company. He’d been doing television stuff, but he was going to also be moving into producing features in addition to the stuff that he writes and directs. So he was really excited about doing this monster movie, and that was the thing he was telling me about all during my work on The Invisible Woman. It sounded really intriguing and fun, but I never thought that I would have anything to do with it. MORE Cloverfield Interview with Matt Reeves

Some early fan art, and downright silly art, trying to capture the cloverfield monster on paper.

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