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'Cloverfield' Pulls Down Monster $41M By DAVID GERMAIN 19 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) The creature-feature "Cloverfield" became the first monster hit released in 2008, debuting with $41 million, a record opening for January, according to studio estimates Sunday. Paramount's tale of a giant reptile causing chaos in New York City surpassed the $35.9 million premiere weekend of the "Star Wars" ...
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‘Cloverfield’ Monster Kills at the Box Office
Vulture —
... we attended on Saturday night).
Cloverfield nerds (like us) are already getting excited about the inevitable sequel, and one has posted an audio clip from the movie's ending, in which we learn — SPOILER ALERT! — that the monster survives, despite the best efforts of the U.S. military. Hopefully by the time Cloverfield 2: The Monster Eats New Jersey hits theaters, we'll have recovered from our motion sickness.
'Cloverfield' Pulls Down Monster $41M [AP]
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The News: Monday News Haikus!
The Reeler —
... movie news of note from around New York in convenient haiku form: Lots of Sundance news: Take The Wackness , for starters. Lumenick digs it . Eric Kohn surveys the weekend's bigger titles; Tucci fares poorly. Brian Darr checked out the new Funny Games remake. He is a sadist. Park City's best dish : Mexican helmer trailed lest he steal swag? New York Times reports the market sucks in '08. Bernard has great quotes. There is other news: Cloverfield is a hit . $41 million! Here's to Scarlett, soon to join Ryan Reynolds in ...
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popbytes.com 1/21/2008 — good evening everybody! oh i'm dying to go see cloverfield which just opened in theaters yesterday - from the reviews and word of mouth - i think it's going to be a smash hit - it looks awesome & really scary! i'm trying not to read too much about ...
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popoholic.com 1/21/2008 —
Lindsay Lohan wasn’t the only celebrity to get some attention at the Cloverfield premiere the other night. Kristin Cavallari was also there and, as you can see, she looked amazing.
I’ve hardly done any posts on Kristin in the last few ...
Theories on the Whisper at the End of Cloverfield [Cloverfield]
io9.com 1/21/2008 — Spoilers ahead, dorks. So Josh writes in to say that he's deciphered the whisper at the end of Lost by doing some sort of fancy backwards-unmasking thing. Here is an unmasked, de-backwardsized MP3 of the whisper -- he claims it says "it's still ...
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Hollywood Reporter 1/21/2008
Paramount's modestly budgeted and stealthily marketed monster film "Cloverfield" opened monstrously indeed, with an estimated $41 million over its first three days, blowing away the weekend record for the long Martin Luther King holiday frame.
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