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18 July 2008 9:33 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Ew.com is running an article with 25 sneak peeks at films being previewed at next week's San Diego Comic-Con. Among the bunch is a picture from David Goyer's latest film Unborn, which stars Gary Oldman (whom you can see reprising his role as Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight this weekend) and  Odette Yustman (Cloverfield). Unborn also stars Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba and Rhys Coiro.

18 July 2008 3:14 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today Entertainment Weekly posted a special San Diego Comic Con preview, which features loda os new images from all of your favorite upcoming films. Two first looks that you'll find inside are from both Universal Pictures' Drag Me To Hell (May 29, 2009), which was directed by Sam Raimi and Rogue Pictures' The Unborn (Tbd 2009), which stars Odette Yustman (Cloverfield). Read on for a look! In Drag Me To Hell, Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with Drag Me To Hell, an original tale of a young womans desperate quest to break an evil curse.

9 July 2008 4:58 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

MGM has acquired and greenlit The Cabin in the Woods, a thriller penned by Joss Whedon (Serenity) and Drew Goddard ("Lost", Cloverfield) with Goddard signed to make his directorial debut and Whedon producing. No story details have been revealed. [Variety] Animated film Planet 51 has been picked up by TriStar Pictures for release on November 20, 2009. The film starring the voice talent of The Rock and Jessica Biel centers on an astronaut who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first to set foot on it. To his surprise, he discovers it's inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America. New Line originall had the project when it was announced in November of 2007, but when New Line folded into Warners it was ultimately let go. [Variety] Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Jordi Molla and French star Vincent Perez are joining Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger in

Brad Brevet

9 July 2008 1:03 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A few more minor details have surfaced about Cabin in the Woods, the project we first mentioned yesterday that was penned by Joss Whedon and Cloverfield producer Drew Goddard.

An article in this morning’s THR, which focuses on Mary Parent’s revitalization of MGM as a production house, mentions that Cabin will also be Goddard’s directorial debut, but neither Joss, Drew, nor Parent would give any more details as to what it’s about.

"I'll be shot,” Parent told the trade. ”I've got like 12,000 online people outside. They've got me under pain or punishment, I'm not allowed to discuss. It's an intense visceral thrill ride and I'll leave it at that. It was everything you would have hoped with the two of them."

It’s not much, but it’s enough to keep my interest piqued! If all goes well, Cabin in the Woods should be shooting this fall.

Johnny Butane

8 July 2008 10:19 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

It looks like Joss Whedon will be heading back to theaters soon. No, it won't be Buffy or Serenity, but rather a thriller he co-wrote called The Cabin in the Woods.

Variety reports that MGM has bought the script, which was co-written by the film's director, Drew Goddard. I know...it's a little bit of a letdown knowing Whedon won't be directing, but it's a little exciting that Goddard - a writing and producing vet of Buffy, Alias, and Lost - should finally get a chance to direct. Especially when you weigh in the fact that he wrote Cloverfield.

We don't know much about the story, but I think we take a guess. I mean, it's a thriller called The Cabin in the Woods. Probably won't be a nice, relaxing weekend in the country.

What we do know is that the film marks something of a milestone for MGM. One of the original major studios,

Colin Boyd

8 July 2008 1:20 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Buffy, Angel and Serenity fans have been on the edge of their seat waiting for Joss Whedon's next project to get off the ground. Today MTV checked in with the writer-director-producer about a bunch of projects that have been in development, including Goners and a new film entitled Cabin In The Woods. Good luck trying to break through his cryptic speak, only time will tell just how horror (if at all) Woods is. Joss Whedon revealed to MTV this evening that his is currently working on a new project with Buffy alum and Cloverfield scribe Drew Goddard entitled Cabin In The Woods.

8 July 2008 12:37 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Joss Whedon is working on so many thing right now, it’s hard to believe he’s actually got time to sit down and be interviewed. But interviewed he was, by MTV most recently, to whom he gave an across-the-board status update on many of his projects.

First and foremost, Goners, the horror/fantasy he’s been talking about for years now, it officially on the Universal “back burner”. Why? God only knows, but Joss told the MTV folks he still sees it being made someday, just not right now. Damnit!

He is, however, working on another project with Cloverfield writer and “Buffy” alumn Drew Goddard called Cabin in the Woods. It’s a project Goddard says has a ”harder and darker edge, but it’s also got classic Whedon qualities. It’ll rip your heart out and be heartfelt at the same time.” Nothing was officially said about what the film is about,

Johnny Butane

25 June 2008 10:44 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

While on the red carpet for the Saturn Awards, website Collider chatted a bit with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves who talked a bit about the possibilities of a sequel, which J.J. Abrams recently implied he might not even want to make. Reeves does confirm that the sequel to the smash-hit giant monster movie is on hold and that resurrecting the beast ultimately it depends on if they find a good idea to make it worthwhile. Fingers crossed as we were big fans of Paramount's film here at B-d. Click here for the full interview, which is quite lengthy and reveals a bit more.

18 June 2008 6:59 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

J.J. Abrams is set to produce a feature film based on a recent New York Times article entitled “Mystery on Fifth Avenue,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Abrams will produce the film through his Bad Robot production house for Paramount Pictures. Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, who collaborated on Peter Cattaneo’s upcoming comedy “The Rocker,” will adapt the article.

The original article by Penelope Green focuses on two parents who bought an expensive New York apartment and turned it into the ideal place for a scavenger hunt for their four kids. The whole place is filled with hidden messages, clues and puzzles.

You can read the entire article from the New York Times right here. It ran on June 12, 2008.

J.J. Abrams has recently wrapped principal photography for “Star Trek.” He also produced Matt Reeves’ thriller “Cloverfield” and directed “Mission Impossible III.”

Franck Tabouring

12 June 2008 1:43 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Today Fox Broadcasting released a brand new behind the scenes video for their upcoming television series “Fringe” starring Joshua Jackson (Shutter) and Charlotte Rampling (Deception). In this clip writer/executive producer J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield) talks about casting and creating the new Fox series. Plot: A television drama centered around a female FBI agent who is forced to work with an institutionalized scientists in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena. Catch the series premiere of Fringe, Tue (9/9) at 8/7c, only [...]

Brian Corder

12 June 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Suddenly Paramount, a whipping boy among the major studios as it perennially came in last or near last when yearly earnings were disclosed, is now whipping everybody in sight. It is doing so with just three films, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man and Cloverfield, which, according to Bloomberg News, account for 70 percent of the studio's revenue this year. The studio has so far taken in $823 million in North America.

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5 June 2008 1:08 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

The excitement that filled the room when I opened a little envelope and inside was the entire pilot episode for Fox's Fringe, which was written and produced by the legendary J.J. Abrams ("Lost", Cloverfield, "Alias"). The show's trailer just appeared online yesterday and set off my internal hype meter, which was now off the charts. A few of my buddies gathered to watch it and inside you'll find the first ever review of the show, which debuts this fall on Fox. I'm sorry to report... not so good. The show is a television drama centered around a female FBI agent who is forced to work with an institutionalized scientists in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.

2 June 2008 7:02 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today Fox Broadcasting posted the official trailer for their upcoming new TV series Fringe, which is produced by J.J. Abrams ("Lost", Cloverfield). When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI special agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is called in to investigate. After her partner, special agent John Scott (Mark Valley), is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter (Joshua Jackson), in to help.

16 May 2008 12:11 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

J.J. Abrams, co-producer of the hit monster film Cloverfield, tells Sci Fi Wire that a sequel may or may not happen and revealed that he's more inclined to do something [different] with his Cloverfield partners, writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves, other than a follow-up. "We're talking about it," Abrams said of Cloverfield 2. "But the truth is there's another idea that I'd rather do with the same people than do a sequel. It's a whole new thing." Abrams added, "So my dream is to work with [Goddard and Reeves] again, but do something that's [new]. Having said that, Drew and Matt both, separately, have really good ideas for what [Cloverfield 2] could be. So I don't know. We'll see. I know the studio wants it." Well how much would that Suck?!

9 May 2008 2:36 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Camera and Electrical pro Chris Shadley (Cloverfield, The Midnight Meat Train) is gearing up to direct his first feature film entitled Nine Dead, which stars Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa Explains It All). From a screenplay by Patrick Wehe Mahoney, nine people, seemingly picked at random, find themselves locked together in a heavily fortified basement, chained to poles and told at gunpoint to figure out why they are here, or face certain death. In ten minute intervals, one among them is unceremoniously gunned down by the Shooter, whose need for revenge has taken the form of twisted ritualism...

12 March 2008 12:02 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Michelle Williams' best pal Busy Philipps is pregnant with her first child.

The 29-year-old actress and her writer husband Marc Silverstein are expecting their new arrival this summer and Philipps is loving every minute of her pregnancy.

She tells Usmagazine.com, "We found out today it's a little girl! I feel great! I've had, like, no morning sickness!"

But Philipps has ruled out her former Dawson's Creek co-star and mother-of-one as her unborn baby's godmother, and has instead chosen Cloverfield actress Lizzy Caplan for the honour.

She explains, "She (Williams) has her hands full with being a mother right now...

"The cool thing about giving someone the godmother title is that it's sort of practice for their own baby."

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29 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

When final box-office figures were counted up, only about $300,000 separated the take of the No. 1 film, Meet the Spartans, from the No. 2 film, Rambo, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. Spartans took in $18.5 million over the weekend, compared to Rambo's $18.2 million. Both films performed according to expectations, but several box-office gurus had predicted that Rambo would edge out Spartans, instead of the other way around. The Romantic comedy 27 Dresses held up well in its second week, to place third with $13.4 million, but last week's top hit, Cloverfield, suffered a monstrous setback, dropping more than 70 percent to $12.7 million. A third new release, the horror-thriller Untraceable, placed fifth with $11.3 million.

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28 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The low-budget Meet the Spartans, a spoof of last year's 300 from Warner Bros., earned as much as it cost to produce at the domestic box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $18.7 million and edging out Rambo, from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co., which finished in second place with about $18.2 million, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. The two films knocked last week's winner, Cloverfield to fourth place. After grossing $44.3 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Day holiday, Cloverfield garnered just $12.7 million in its second weekend, a 72-percent drop. It was beaten by the film it trounced a week ago, 20th Century Fox's 27 Dresses. Debuting in fifth place was Sony's Untraceable, which took in a better-than-expected $11.2 million. Continuing to amaze was Fox Searchlight's Juno, which passed the $100-million mark an upped its gross from last week despite losing some 100 theaters. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. Meet the Spartans, $18.7 million; 2. Rambo, $18.2 million; 3. 27 Dresses, $13.6 million; 4. Cloverfield, $12.7 million; 5. Untraceable, $11.2 million; 6. Juno, $10.3 million; 7. The Bucket List, $10.2 million; 8. There Will be Blood, $4.9 million; 9. National Treasure:Book of Secrets, $4.7 million; 10. Mad Money, $4.6 million.

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25 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

This weekend will provide a box-office test of whether the public will turn out to see a 61-year-old former action star in a role that he first made popular as a much younger man. Sylvester Stallone first introduced the character of John Rambo in 1982 in the movie First Blood. He last appeared as the character in 1988, helping rebels in Afghanistan oust the Soviet Union. (In the interim most of those rebels turned against the U.S.) "Hopefully, what our advertising has done is introduce Rambo to a whole new generation of younger males," Lionsgate distribution chief Steve Rothenberg told today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times. The question among box-office analysts was whether it could top Cloverfield, which had a spectacular opening last weekend. While Rambo is expected to take in $15-20 million, that figure would merely come close to equaling what Cloverfield would bring in if its ticket sales fell by 50 percent. It's also being challenged by the debuting comedy Meet the Spartans, a spoof of last year's 300, which has also been garnering considerable buzz in recent weeks. (Spartans was not screened for critics.)

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23 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The box office posted solid results on Monday, the Martin Luther King Day holiday, with the top 12 movies recording $27 million in ticket sales, according to final figures released Tuesday by Media by Numbers. Paramount's Cloverfield led the pack with a gross of $6.09 million. It also set a record for the four-day holiday with a total of $46.1 million. It's three-day total of $40 million set a weekend record for January, erasing the previous record of $35 million set by Star Wars (Special Edition) in 1997. Paramount says that the total budget for Cloverfield was just $25 million, although it was assumed that the studio spent far more than that to promote it. In a successful effort at counter-programming, Fox's 27 Dresses came in second with $27.4 million for the holiday, $4.43 million of which was earned on Monday. The top ten films over the four-day Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Cloverfield, Paramount, $46,146,546, (New); 2. 27 Dresses, Fox, $27,442,040, (New); 3. The Bucket List, Warner Bros., $16,664,347, 5 Wks., $44,223,780; 4. Juno, Fox Searchlight, $11,966,082, 7 Wks., $87,092,615; 5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Disney, $9,606,326, 5 Wks., $199,489,171; 6. First Sunday, Sony Screen Gems, $9,504,908, 2 Wks., $30,170,510; 7. Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fox, $9,433,049, 6 Wks., $198,813,230; 8. Mad Money, Overture Films, $9,273,645, (New); 9. I Am Legend, Warner Bros., $5,905,443, 6 Wks., $248,482,867; 10. Atonement, Focus, $5,528,377, 7 Wks., $32,653,183.

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