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Film+TV - Cloverfield Is a Horror - Scott Foundas - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
Film+TV - Cloverfield Is a Horror - Scott Foundas - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
It took nine years (1945-54) for Godzilla to rise up out of the ashes of Hiroshima and wreak his destruction on the good people of Tokyo. Here in America, it's taken just over six years for the idea of an escapist disaster movie set on the streets of New York City to go from pop-culture anathema to a hotly anticipated commercial commodity. Back in 2001, movie companies were rushing to cut ...
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Cloverfield.
GreenCine Daily — ... ," recalls Scott Foundas in the LA Weekly. "In 2008, a decapitated Statue of Liberty has become the primary marketing iconography for the movie that is 'tracking' to be the year's first bona fide blockbuster." But "the cheap and opportunistic Cloverfield suggests nothing so much as an earlier Abrams-authored disasterpiece, ...

'Cloverfield': The Critics Are Split [Cloverfield]
Gawker: defamer — ... · "[U]nlike Brian De Palma's recent Redacted and Romero's forthcoming Diary of the Dead-- both of which use subjective cameras as a way of questioning our YouTube-d universe and the trust we put in recorded images -- Cloverfield's first-person ­videography has little sense of purpose. It's just another salable gimmick in a movie whose closest kinship to Blair Witch may be the genius of its ad campaign." [LA Weekly] ...

Advisory: Oscar Noms/DGA Deal Analyses
Deadline.com — ... much later today, hopefully... Posted by Nikki Finke on Tuesday, Jan 22nd, 2008 at 02:20AM | Permalink | SOURCES: Bob Shaye's New Line Contract Won't Be Renewed By Time Warner Boss No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Nikki Finke's Bio Email Nikki About DHD Nikki in LA Weekly RSS feeds: (click) (copy/paste) Top Ten Movies 1. Cloverfield 2. 27 Dresses 3. Alvin/Chipmunks 4. The Bucket List 5. ...

DHD Update: Back On Jan. 25th
Deadline.com — ... then. Sorry for the start and stop, start and stop, before then. Posted by Nikki Finke on Wednesday, Jan 23rd, 2008 at 08:36PM | Permalink | Finke To Goldstein: Do The Write Thing No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Nikki Finke's Bio Email Nikki About DHD Nikki in LA Weekly RSS feeds: (click) (copy/paste) Top Ten Movies 1. Cloverfield 2. 27 Dresses 3. Alvin/Chipmunks 4. The Bucket List 5. ...

ADVISORY: Down With Bronchial Flu
Deadline.com — ... Posted by Nikki Finke on Wednesday, Jan 30th, 2008 at 11:30AM | Permalink | Rumors About ICM's Jeff Berg "Untrue" No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Nikki Finke's Bio Email Nikki About DHD Nikki in LA Weekly RSS feeds: (click) (copy/paste) Top Ten Movies 1. Meet The Spartans 2. Rambo 3. 27 Dresses 4. Cloverfield 5. Untraceable 6. Juno 7. The Bucket List 8. There Be ...

Advisory: Still Felled By Flu
Deadline.com — ... So sorry. Posted by Nikki Finke on Friday, Feb 1st, 2008 at 04:36PM | Permalink | More Side Deals Signed With WGA No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Nikki Finke's Bio Email Nikki About DHD Nikki in LA Weekly RSS feeds: (click) (copy/paste) Top Ten Movies 1. Meet The Spartans 2. Rambo 3. 27 Dresses 4. Cloverfield 5. Untraceable 6. Juno 7. The Bucket List 8. There Be ...

STRIKE STATUS REPORT: Everything I Know About Where Things Stand Now
Deadline.com — ... ...) Posted by Nikki Finke on Monday, Feb 4th, 2008 at 12:35PM | Permalink | CAA Fires TV Agent Over Oprah Intrigue No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Nikki Finke's Bio Email Nikki About DHD Nikki in LA Weekly RSS feeds: (click) (copy/paste) Top Ten Movies 1. Meet The Spartans 2. Rambo 3. 27 Dresses 4. Cloverfield 5. Untraceable 6. Juno 7. The Bucket List 8. There Be ...

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