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Cloverfield

Plot
The film is presented in order to look as if it were a video file recovered from a digital camcorder by the U.S. Department of Defense. The film begins with a warning that the film follows on the verge of being is considered a case designated "Cloverfield" and was found in the area that was "formerly known as Central Park.
Robert "Rob" Hawkins awakes in the morning of April 27 after sleeping with a platonic friend already, Elizabeth "Beth" McIntyre. They intend to go to Coney Island that day. Images cuts next month, when Rob's brother Jason and his girlfriend Lily prepare a farewell party for Rob. At the party, their friend Hudson "Hud" Platt uses the camera to film Rob testimony, accidentally stick on Rob and Beth Coney Island trip. During recording, Hud unsuccessfully flirts with Marlena, another guest of the party. After Beth leaves the party, which seems be an earthquake strikes, and the city suffers a brief power outage. The local news that a tanker has capsized near Liberty Island. An explosion in Lower Manhattan causes revelers to leave the building and witness the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing nearby in the street. Hud documents what appears to be a giant monster blocks of several kilometers. Many took refuge in a convenience store in the Woolworth Building collapses. Rob, Jason, Lily, Hud and try to escape Manhattan Marlena on the Brooklyn Bridge. A huge tail breaks the bridge, sending Jason and hundreds of others in the water. The survivors are forced to flee back to Manhattan.
Rob listened to a message from Beth saying she is trapped in his apartment and unable to move. The news shows the National Guard to attack the monster and small, mischievous creatures who are falling her body (called HSP or "man Parasites scale" in the way Blu-Ray Special Investigation). Rob, Hud, Lily, and Marlena risk to the rescue Beth.
They are soon caught in the crossfire between the monster and the army and took refuge in a subway station. They decide to go through the tunnels Metro reach Beth apartment, but they are attacked by several parasites. One of them bites Marlena. The group escapes Bloomingdale's of where they are greeted by Sergeant Pryce and a squad of local U.S. Army soldiers. They set up a field hospital and command center in store. As Rob tries to rally support for Beth, Marlena's eyes began to bleed and it is removed before exploding behind a curtain.
Seargent Pryce allows others to leave, but warns them to report to a military evacuation site before 6:00 am, which is when the last helicopter evacuates Manhattan and the military to adopt its "Hammerdown" protocol. It would involve the bombardment of the city in order to destroy the monster.
The group found the apartment tower Beth at Time Warner Center collapsed against another round center. They climb up the tower and cross on the roof of Beth and make their way up apartment. Beth is trapped and impaled by a rebar concrete, but they are able to release it. After the rescue, the four go on the disposal site where they encounter the monster once more about Grand Central Station while the army continues to engage. Lily is running around without a helicopter from his friends. Moments later, Rob, Beth and Hud are taken in a second helicopter and witness the U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit carpet bomb the monster. Just as Hud begins hailing victory over the monster, it reaches and attacks the helicopter, causing a breakdown in a Central Park grassy clearing. A voice on the radio the helicopter crashed warns against the protocol to be effective in Hammerdown fifteen minutes and provides that anyone hearing the sirens in the blast area.
Beth Hudson and pull an injured Rob clear of the wreckage of the helicopter, but Hud returns to recover the camera as he does, a monster appears above him. This is the first time the monster is clearly seen and in broad daylight. He looks curiously HUD for a moment, then tries to eat, spit out the top half of his body. Rob and Beth take the camera recording and take shelter under a bridge in Central Park that the air raid sirens began to blare and bombers can be heard in the distance, indicating Hammerdown the protocol is about to begin. Rob and Beth take turns leaving their last testimonies of the day, which says Rob on Saturday May 23 to the camera. Several explosions occur outside the massive outflow of bombing took place, and the creature is heard screaming with pain. As the bridge collapses and debris covers the camera (The "military intelligence" contained in the user's special investigation of the Blu-ray version said that it was the only thing that protects the camera during the protocol Hammer-down), Rob and Beth can be heard professing their love for each other as another bomb explodes, stop recording of the camera. The film then cuts to images of Rob and Beth Coney Island date, the distance an object can be seen falling into the ocean.
Throw
For more information: List of characters in the Cloverfield universe
Michael Stahl-David, Robert "Rob" Hawkins
Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
TJ Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
Odette Yustman as Elizabeth "Beth" McIntyre
Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
Ben Travis Feldman
To avoid the leak of information about the plot, instead of auditioning the actors with scenes the film, scripts from Abrams' previous productions were used, such as television series Alias and Lost. Some scenes were also written specifically for the audition process and not intended to be used in the film. Despite not being told the premise of the film, Lizzy Caplan said she accepted a role in Cloverfield solely because she was a fan of Abrams produced television series Lost (which his ex-partners co-star Kiele Sanchez has been a recurring character), and his experience of discovering its true nature initially caused her to declare that she would not sign a film in the future "without knowing exactly what it is." She said that her character was a sarcastic outsider, and that his role was "physically demanding."
Production
Development
The poster for Escape from New York (1981) inspired the scene of the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in Cloverfield.
JJ Abrams has invented a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan while promoting the Mission: Impossible III. He explained, "We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own [American] monster, and not like King Kong. I love King Kong. King Kong is adorable. And Godzilla is a monster charm. We love Godzilla. But I wanted something that would just be crazy, and intense. "Abrams pays homage to King Kong, about 67 minutes into the movie, just after the helicopter crashes. When the video camera is broken, a quick scene of Coney Island is seen. It is followed by several frames of the film remains King Kong original. There are two other images in "pre-recorded" sequences, one of the movie Them! and the beast 20,000 Fathoms – these two films are also listed in the credits.
In February 2007, Paramount Pictures secretly green light to Cloverfield, to be produced by Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard. The project was produced by the company of Abrams, Bad Robot Productions. The Effects Producer Chantal Feghali was visual.
The severed head of the Statue of Liberty was inspired by the movie poster 1981 Escape from New York, which had shown the head lying in the streets of New York. According to Reeves, "This is an incredibly provocative image. And that was the source that inspired producer JJ Abrams to say: "Now, it would be an interesting idea for a movie."
Title
The film was titled Cloverfield from the beginning, but the title has changed throughout production before it is finalized that the original title. Matt Reeves explained that the title was changed frequently due the hype caused by the trailer, "That excitement spread to such a degree that we suddenly could not use the name more. So we started to use all these names like Slusho and Cheese. And people have always found what we did! "The Director said that" Cloverfield "has been the designation of government's case for events caused by the monster, comparing the title to that of the Manhattan Project. "And is not a project in itself. This is the way this case has been designated. That is why the trailer, and it becomes more clear in the film. This is how they refer to this phenomenon [or] this case, "said the director. Final title of the film, Cloverfield is the name of the exit Abrams takes to his office in Santa Monica.
A final title, Greyshot, has been proposed before the movie was officially titled Cloverfield. Greyshot The name is derived from the arch that the two survivors to take shelter under the end of the film. Director Matt Reeves said he was decided not to change the title of Greyshot because the film was already so well known as Cloverfield.
Other movie titles were provisional:
1-18-08 (USA) (promotional title)
Cheese (USA) (fake working title)
Clover (USA) (fake working title)
Monstrous (USA) (promotional title)
Slusho (USA) (fake working title)
Untitled JJ Abrams Project (USA) (working title)
Greyshot (USA) (proposed title)
Shooting
The casting process was conducted in secret, without script to be sent to candidates. With production estimated to have a budget of 30 million dollars, began shooting in mid-June 2007 in New York. A member of the cast said that the film might look like the cost of 150 million dollars despite producers not casting recognizable actors and expensive. Filmmakers use the Panasonic HVX200 for most of the interior scenes, and the Sony CineAlta F23 high-definition video camera to film nearly all the scenes of New York outside. The shooting took place at Coney Island, with scenes shot at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and the B & B Carousel. Some interior scenes were filmed on a shelf in Downey, California, Bloomingdale's, in the movie was actually filmed in an emptied Robinsons-May store was under reconstruction in Arcadia, California, and the scenes outside the Sephora store and the electronics were filmed in downtown Los Angeles.
Brooklyn Bridge, as seen through the first person narrative film
The film was shot and edited in a style cinema vrit to look like it was filmed with a camera in hand, including ellipses similar to those found in home movies. TJ Miller, who plays Hud, said in several interviews that he shot a third film and almost half of what it does in the movie. Director Matt Reeves described the presentation, "We wanted it to be as if someone has found a Handicam, took the tape and put it in the player to watch. What you are watching a movie home which then turns into something else. "Reeves explained that pedestrians documenting the severed head of the Statue of Liberty with the camera phone picture was reflected in the contemporary period. He said: "Cloverfield lot about the fear and anxieties of our time, how we live our lives. Constantly documenting things and putting them on YouTube, sending people videos through e-mail we felt it was very applicable to how that people feel now. "
Several filmmakers are heard but not seen in the film. The man shouting "Oh my God!" Repeatedly when the head of the Statue of Liberty lands in the street is the leading producer Bryan Burk, director Matt Reeves and expressed the radio whispered the end credits.
After viewing a cut of the film, Steven Spielberg suggested giving the public an indication about the fate of the monster peak, which resulted in the addition of a countdown is heard on the radio the helicopter and the sound of sirens air to bring the next Hammerdown bombing.
Creature Design
Main article: Clover (creature)
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Phil Tippett and his company were hired to develop Tippett Studio visual effects for Cloverfield. Because the visual effects were integrated after filming, cast members had to respond to a non-existent creature during scenes, never met with the first reports of the conceptual beast. Artist Neville Page designed the monster, thoroughly establishing a biological basis for the creature, even though many of his ideas as "elongated articulated external esophagus and "would not be visible on the screen. The key idea behind the monster that he was a immature creature suffering from "separation anxiety". This is reminiscent of real life elephant who is afraid and attack the circus, because the director felt "there is nothing scarier than something huge that is frightened."
Marketing
Before the movie release, Paramount Pictures has produced a viral marketing campaign to promote the film which included viral tie-ins similar to Lost Experience. The filmmakers decided to create a teaser that be a surprise in the light of saturation current media, which they established during the preparation phase the production process. The teaser was then used as the basis for the film itself. Primal Pictures encouraged the teaser to be released without title attached, and the Motion Picture Association of America approved the move. What processors showed high tracking numbers before its release in July 2007, the studio attached a teaser for Cloverfield has shown that the release date of January 18, 2008, but not the title. A second trailer was released November 16 2007, which was attached to Beowulf, confirming the title.
The studio had kept knowledge of the secret project of the online community, a rarity cited due to the presence of shovels following upcoming movies. The controlled release of information about the film was seen as a risky strategy, which could succeed like The Blair Witch Project (1999) or disappoint like Snakes on a Plane (2006), which last had generated online hype but failed to attract a wide audience. Chad Hartigan of Exhibitor Relations Co. saw several problems with the film's potential, including a lack of big stars, the disappointing performance Godzilla-style films in America, and the film's scheduled release in January, considered a "dumping ground for bad movies.
speculation Pre-release plot
The sudden appearance of the untitled trailer for Cloverfield fueled media speculation about the plot. USA Today reported the possibilities of the film being based on the works of HP Lovecraft, a live-action adaptation of Voltron (based on a misinterpretation of the line of the trailer "It's alive!" that "It's a lion!"), a new film about Godzilla, or a spin-off television series Lost. The Star Ledger also reported the possibility of the film being based on Lovecraft lore or Godzilla. The Guardian reported the possibility of a Lost spin-off, while Time Out reported that the film was about an alien called The Parasite. IGN has also supported the possibility of this premise, with the parasite rumored to be a working title for the film. Online, Slusho and Colossus have been discussed as other possible titles. Entertainment Weekly also disputed reports that the film would be about a parasite or a giant robot like Voltron Asian.
Visitors to the site Is not It Cool News noted 9 / 11 allusions based on the destruction of New York as the Statue of Liberty decapitated. The film also drew alternate reality game Fans who have attended other viral marketing campaigns like those set up for the television series Lost, video games Halo 2 and Halo 3, Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero, and the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight. The members of the forums and argn.com unfiction.com investigated the background of the film, with "1-18-08" section to generate over 7700 jobs Unfiction in August 2007. Members discussed the photographs on the film's official website, potentially related MySpace profiles, and the teaser poster from Comic-Con for the movie. A piece of folk art fan asked that the mutant monster was a humpback whale.
Viral tie-ins
Photos on the site of viral marketing 1-18-08.com
Puzzle websites containing Lovecraftian elements, like Ethan Haas was right, were originally reported to be connected to the film. On July 9, 2007, producer JJ Abrams said that if a number of sites have been developed to market the film, the official website that had been found was 1 to 18-08.com. On the site, a collection of photos of timecode are provided to visitors to reconstruct a series of events and interpret their meanings. Photos can also be switched repeatedly and rapidly moving towards the mouse to another. Also, while the 1-18-08.com, if the page is left open long enough, the monster roar is heard. Finally, www.cloverfieldmovie.com has been created. The site offers both a trailer and a number, 33,287, which once sent a text message from a phone Mobile, provided a ringing of the monster roar and a wallpaper of a decimated Manhattan. This is ultimately Paramount to be a number (of people later received material on Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda and The Love Guru).
In the context of the viral marketing campaign, the drink Slusho! served as tie-in. The drink had already appeared in the production of JJ Abrams' previous creation, the TV series Alias. viral sites for Slusho! and a Japanese drilling company named Tagruato (, Taguruato?) were launched to add to the mythology Cloverfield. A building bearing the logo of the company Tagruato can also be seen in the TV commercial of the eleventh Star Trek film, another production Abrams. When Cloverfield was greeted at Comic-Con 2007, gray Slusho! T-shirts were distributed to participants. Fans who had registered for the Slusho! site Web Cloverfield received e-mails of fictional sonar images before the film which showed a deep-sea creature heading toward Manhattan.
On Tagruato site, the only page in addition to the home page that has the sword "deformed" symbol is the deep sea drilling, and "Clover" supposedly causing the surrounding ocean Coney Island. If someone goes to the functionality of the interactive map, the closest station is "Chuai Station "which has been open four months after the attack on New York. It also indicates in the" a "of the article he There was an altercation and it will be fixed soon, as they have sent special teams to deal with the problem. It also states that the Tagruato Satellite tracking is a piece fell from a satellite made by the Japanese government with no luck so far, but said: "According Hatsui data, it disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean late last week "(Hatsui being the name of a satellite that has followed the precedents satellites fallen).
In addition Tagruato.jp, Slusho.jp, and 1-18 Jamieandteddy.com-08.com have at least a "distorted" sword in each symbol. Slusho it has on its website, the features 1 to 18-08.com picture is behind Teddy Hansen and Jamieandteddy.com it has on its website, making it seem as if there is a relationship between three of them. In this site, an index for the monster was given after moving pictures for some time.
Producer Bryan Burk said Virus tie-in, "[It] is in collaboration with the studio … All the experience to make this film [was remembered] the way we have lost. "Director Matt Reeves described Slusho! as" part of the involved connectivity "with Abrams' Alias and that the drink is a" meta-history "For Cloverfield. The director explained: "It's almost like tentacles that grow on the film and lead, also, the ideas in the film. And there this bizarre way you can go see the movie and it's an experience … But there is also this other place where you can get engaged where there is this other sort of aspect for all those who are in there. [...] All the stories kind of bounce off each other and each other. But the end of the day, this film is in itself to be a movie. [...] The Internet sort of stories and connections and clues are in some way, a prism and they are another way to look the same. For us, it's just another exciting aspect of the narrative. "
Goods
A series four installments prequel manga by Yoshiki Togawa titled Cloverfield / Kishin (/ Kishin, Kurbfrudo / Kishin?) is published by the Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten. The story focuses on a Japanese high school student named Kishin Aiba, which is somehow linked with the monster.
Based on the opening weekend successfully Cloverfield in theaters, Hasbro began accepting orders for a collectible toy figure of 14 inches (36 cm) of the monster with its authentic and its parasites to be shipped to fans of 24 December 2008.
Music and
Rob's Party Mix
compilation of various artists
Released
January 17, 2008
Kind
Alternative, Blues-rock, britpop, electronic, indie pop, indie rock
Length
64:02
With its presentation of images from consumer digital recorder, Cloverfield has no film music, with the exception of the composition "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture) "by Michael Giacchino that plays over the end credits. The similarities between" Roar! "And the music of composer Akira Ifukube Godzilla were noted, and it was suggested that the opening is a tribute to Giacchino Ifukube work, which was confirmed by Matt Reeves in the way of comments on the DVD. The soundtrack was supervised by William and Douglas Murray files at Skywalker Sound.
Rob's Party Mix Mix or Cloverfield is a collection of music played in the sequence of opening night film that was released exclusively on Apple iTunes Store on January 22, 2008 in place of a traditional soundtrack. The score for Cloverfield, "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)" by Michael Giacchino, who plays on the generic End does not appear on the album, the mixtape because it played at the party and not the official soundtrack of the film. This album has been distributed guests at a party in first place Cloverfield at the Dark Room in New York on January 17 May 2008.
Press A complete soundtrack all the music in the film, including Giacchino for "Roar!" Item title end, has also been released exclusively on iTunes, it has not been officially released in retail stores. A CD titled Rob's Party Mix is presented in a special edition of Cloverfield set on sale at Wal-Mart Canada from April 22, 2008.
Although Ashley Tisdale "He Said, She Said" was in the movie, it was cut the album.
List titles
#
Title
Artist
Length
1.
"West Coast"
Coconut Records
3:32
2.
"Taper Jean Girl"
Kings of Leon
3:05
3.
"Beautiful Girls"
Sean Kingston
4:01
4.
"Do I have your attention"
The Blood Arm
3:35
5.
"Got Your Moments"
Scissors for Lefty
3:11
6.
"Give Up the Funk (Tear the roof of the sucker)"
Parliament
5:46
7.
"19-2000"
Gorillaz
3:27
8.
"The Underdog"
Spoon
3:42
9.
"Pistol of Fire"
Kings of Leon
2:20
10.
"Disco Lies"
Moby
3:22
11.
"Do the Whirlwind"
Architecture in Helsinki
4:39
12.
"Having become so ugly"
The Black Keys
2:24
13.
"Four Winds"
Bright Eyes
4:16
14.
"The Ride
Joan As Policewoman
3:09
15.
"Seventeen Years"
Ratatat
4:26
16.
"Wraith Favorites mist and other games "
Of Montreal
4:15
17.
"Fuzz" ()
Mucc
4:47
Reception
Cloverfield opened in 3411 theaters on January 18, 2008, plus a total of $ 16,930,000 on its opening day in the United States and Canada. He 40,058,229 Dollars from its opening weekend, making it the most successful version to date in January. Worldwide, it reported $ 170,602,318, making it the first film in 2008 to gross $ 100 million. Reviews for most praised Cloverfield, April 27, 2008, overall opinion Rotten Tomatoes reported that 76% of critical Film gave positive feedback, based on 173 reviews. According to Metacritic, which assigns a standard score of 100 to reviews from critics, the film received average score of 0.64, based on 37 reviews.
Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle called the film "function being the most intense and original I seen in my adult life [...] million viewers a thoroughbred, Grade A, exhilarating monster movie. "He cites direction Matt Reeves, the" Whip-smart, stylistically invisible "Script and the evocation" unconscious near our current paranoid times of terror-phobic, "as the key to success of the film, saying that telling the story through the lens of the camera a character "works wonderfully well. Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter called it "chillingly effective, praising the effects and" claustrophobic intensity of the film. "He said that although characters "are not particularly interesting or" developed, there was "something refreshing about a monster movie that is not met the usual suspects. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said that the film was "surreptitiously subversive, [a] clever style gem "And that, if the characters were" vapid, silly twenty-something "and the game" properly immemorial, "the decision to tell the story through pictures amateur was "brilliant". Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that the film is "quite scary at times "and cites" evocations single 9 / 11. "He concludes that" overall, this film effective deployment its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that all this is happening as we see it.
Todd McCarthy of the variety called the film a movie Monster old dressed in trendy new threads ", praising the special effects," nihilistic attitude " and "post-9/11 anxiety overlay," but said: "Ultimately, [it is] not very different from all the marauding creature features that have appeared before it. "Scott Founds the LA Weekly was critical of the use of film scenes reminiscent of September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and has called "cheap and opportunistic. He suggested that the film was engaging in" stealth "attempts at social commentary and report of this adverse films of Don Siegel, George A. Romero and Steven Spielberg, saying: "Where those filmmakers all had something meaningful to say about the state of the world [...] nature and man, Abrams did not have much to say about anything. "Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called the allusions" sticky ", Saying:" [The images] may be thinking of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or the lack of "imagination, but" the movie is too stupid to affect everything except your intelligence. "She concludes that the film works as a showcase for impressively realistic looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the man whose destiny rushing are intended to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt. "Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com calls the movie" poorly constructed, sadistic humor and emotion, "and summarizes by saying that the film" takes the trauma of 9 / 11 and turns it into a mere spectacle randomly during which point and shoot ". Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune warned that the viewer can feel "sick at heart" in reference to September 11 but that "other sequences [...] make a real jolt" and that such tactics were "crude but undeniably gripping. He called the film "dumb", but "quick and dirty and effectively brusque," concluding that, although it is "a mark harder more demographic calculation of fun, "he liked the movie. Bruce Paterson cinephilia describes the film as "a successful experiment in style, but not necessarily a history of success for those who want dramatic closure.
Cloverfield appeared on some critics' top ten lists of best films of the year 2008. Empire magazine named it the fifth best film of 2008. However, the prestigious French film journal Cahiers du Cinema named the film as the third over 2008. Bloody Disgusting has ranked number twenty films in their list of "Top 20 horror movies of the Decade, the article calling the film" A brilliant idea, of course, supported by a marketing campaign early genius that followed the less is more philosophy to the effect irresistible … a bit like Blair Witch for nearly ten years earlier, Cloverfield helped to prove, particularly in its first half hour, what you see may be of the utmost frightening of all. "
The film was nominated for four awards: He was nominated for two Saturn Award for "best supporting actress (Lizzy Caplan) "and" Best Science Fiction ". He was nominated for two Golden Trailer Awards" Best Thriller Trailer for "and" Most the original trailer. "[Edit] The film won a Saturn Award for" Best Science Fiction ". It was also ranked # Bravo 12 on the 13 scariest movie moments. [Edit]
camera shaking
Subscribe to customers warning AMC theater in comparing the film rollercoaster.
The film camera style of filmmaking scrapie, nicknamed "Queasy-Cam" by Roger Ebert, has caused some viewers (Especially in dark movie theaters) to experience motion sickness, including nausea and a temporary loss of balance. The Members of the public may have migraines cited the film as a trigger. Some theaters showing the film, like AMC Theatres, posted warnings, informing viewers about the filming style of Cloverfield in other theaters like Pacific Theatres verbally warned guests at the box office on experience motion sickness on the film and what they should do if they have left.
The cinematography influences encoding video and can cause compression artifacts in fast motion across the field of vision.
Home Press
The DVD was released April 22, 2008 in two versions: the single-disc standard edition and an exclusive "steel book" special edition that was sold Suncoast and FYE retailers in the U.S. and Future Shop in Canada. Among other exclusive store an exclusive bonus disc entitled "TJ Miller's Video Diary "with the DVD at all Best Buy retailers, an exclusive mix CD titled" Rob's Goin 'to Japan Party Mix "with the DVD at all the Target and Wal-Mart and retailers an exclusive ringtone with the DVD to all retailers Sears and Kmart. Borders also has an exclusive booklet enclosed with their DVD.
The Region 2 DVD is released on June 9 at the time a disc and two disc editions. The limited edition steelbook is only available from HMV, Play.com Exclusive offer while pocket. The HMV exclusive steelbook contains two discs.
The DVD includes two alternate endings, which vary only slightly. The first ending shows Rob and Beth's Coney output Islandtillwell Avenue station rather than on the big wheel and features different sirens in the background that talks to Rob camera. In the second alternative ending, just after the final explosion, Beth can be heard screaming "Rob!", Followed by a clip very short of an unknown person looking at the camera (in the commentary, Matt Reeves said he was one of the crew) and brushing rubble of the lens. The film then ends with the original final clip of Rob and Beth on their date of Coney Island to check on the big wheel of the tape unit is empty, but with two differences: there is no stamp in the lower left corner of the screen and it beeps more indicating the end of the strip.
A Blu-ray edition was released June 3, 2008. It includes a "Special Investigation Mode" and all the bonus DVD 2-Disc HD.
Suite
At the premiere of the film, Matt Reeves talks about possibilities about how a sequel will reveal whether the film succeeds. According to Reeves, "While we were on the set filming, we talked about the possibilities and directions of how a sequel can go. The pleasure of this film is that it would not was the only film in that night, there might be another movie! At the time of day and age of people filming their lives on their camera phones and Handycams, uploading it to YouTube … It's kind of exciting thinking about it. "
In another interview, Reeves states:
There's a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a guy filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees filming and he turns around and sees the ship that was overthrown and sees the Statue of Liberty without a head, then he turns and briefly this guy who was filming. In my mind, that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident events and there are so many different viewpoints, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just see a piece of another.
Reeves also points out that the scene ends on Coney Island shows something falling into the ocean in the background (pointed out by fans to be the extreme right point of view of the Ferris wheel, a little left of a boat sitting in the water given the fall as the camera emits a beep), but gave no details. (This is, however, several days before the beginning of the film and shows the two main characters in Coney Island before they meet again at the beginning of the game as shown in the date stamp on the camera images. This affects how events began to arrive and the satellite orbit falls owned by the Japanese media mentioned).
Producers Bryan Burk and JJ Abrams has also announced their thoughts to Entertainment Weekly about possible consequences. According to Bryan Burk, "The creative team has materialized to shading whole which, if we're lucky, we might have to explore in future films.
Abrams said he did not want to rush into the development the result because of the success of the first film and would rather make a sequel that is true for the previous film.
At the end of January 2008, Matt Reeves entered early talks with Paramount Pictures to direct a sequel to Cloverfield, which would probably filmed before other projects Reeves, The Invisible Woman. Reeves now says:
The idea of doing something so different is exciting. We hope that this has created a cinematic experience which is different. The thing about making a sequel, because I think we all feel really protective of that experience. The key here is if we can find something that is large enough and sufficiently different for us, then it will probably be worth it. Obviously, it depends Cloverfield also does worldwide and all these things too, but in reality, for us creatively, we just want to find something that would be a challenge.
In an interview with the attack of the show, JJ Abrams said they might abandon the filming style, stating that he and the rest of the crew would like to try something new.
In September 2008, invited by Craveonline what is the current status is on Cloverfield 2, Abrams said at this stage, they are still discussing, but it still feels reluctant to work on a sequel. In the same interview, Abrams said they worked on something that "could be pretty cool." When asked if she would be in a different place, Abrams responded by saying that "It would be a different kind of thing but it is too early to tell."
In January 2010, JJ Abrams has confirmed that a result is "developing."
See also
found footage (Genre)
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Awards and honors
Preceded by
Children of Men
Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
2007
Succeeded
Iron Man
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Cloverfield universe
Film
Cloverfield
adaptation manga
Cloverfield / Kishin
Characters
List of characters in the universe Clover Cloverfield
See also
JJ Abrams Matt Reeves Drew Goddard
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Abrams
Writer
Taking Care of Business (1990) Regarding Henry (1991) Forever Young (1992) Gone Fishin '(1997) Armageddon (in 1998) Joy Ride (2001) Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Producer
The pallbearer (1996) The Suburbans (1999) Joy Ride (2001) Cloverfield (2008) Star Trek (2009) Morning Glory (2010)
Manager
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Star Trek (2009)
Television series
Felicity (19982002) Alias (20012006) Lost (20042010) The Office (2005-present): "Cocktails" (2007) What About Brian (20062007) Six Degrees (20,062,007) Fringe (2008resent) Anatomy of Hope (2009) Undercovers (2010-present)
Production Company
Bad Robot Productions
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Films directed by Matt Reeves
The bearers of the coffin (1996) Cloverfield (2008) Let Me In (2010)
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