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Oh J.J. Abrams, you tease you…

Drew McWeeny of HitFix is the first to break the news about an ultra-myserious Bad Robot project that in true Abrams fashion is being kept under the darkliest cloak of secrecy possible.

Here’s what McWeeny has found out: the teaser trailer for it is going to run with Iron Man 2, which comes out this Friday.

The title of it (if this is indeed the name of the film) is Super 8.

And it might… emphasis on “might” y’all… be the follow-up to 2008’s Cloverfield.

I was already planning on seeing Iron Man 2 on Friday. Guess this will be even more reason to look forward to it (even if this doesn’t turn out to be a Cloverfield sequel 🙂...

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Two weeks ago I let y’all know about a promotional video that I worked on for HyperMind, that groovy game store in Burlington. The video was for HyperMind’s big Monsterpocalypse day this coming Saturday, and was also an entry in that game’s Monsterpocapalooza mega-event going on this summer.

Well, the votes have been tallied and our lil’ video has made it into the Top Ten! There wound up being about 22 entries altogether. We are very thankful to be in one of the top spots, and we wish to thank everyone who voted for us!

Here it is again if you haven’t seen it yet…

Again, thank you to all who watched and rated our video. The final winner will be announced on July 31st… and we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed ’til then! 🙂...

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So for the past several days I’ve been engulfed in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and whatnot. Hard at work for some good friends: HyperMind in Burlington (click here for the first write-up I did about ’em). Well, among the very popular games that HyperMind carries is Monsterpocalypse, and this summer its publisher Privateer Press is having a mondo ginormous event called Monsterpocapalooza. As part of the festivities leading up to the release of a new add-on for the game is a contest where game stores are invited to make a promo video for their Monsterpocalypse events.

So anyhoo, here is HyperMind’s entry. I thought it would be neat if we spoofed Cloverfield. And it came out pretty good!

Thanks to everyone in the HyperMind extended family for making this video possible! And if you enjoyed their efforts, please feel free to give a high ...

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Cloverfield was one of my very favorite movies from last year. I thought it accomplished just what J.J. Abrams set out to do: give America a leviathan film monster all its very own (read my original review here). It did extremely well at the box office and in DVD/Blu-ray sales, so obviously people are wondering: might we see a second installment of the story?

During the Star Trek panel at WonderCon, Abrams spoke in considerably strong terms that a Cloverfield sequel is indeed in the works…

“We’re actually working on an idea right now,” Abrams told the packed crowd. “The key obviously at doing any kind of sequel, certainly this film included, is that it better not be a business decision. If you’re going to do something, it should be because you’re really inspired to do it. It doesn’t really have to mean anything, doesn’t mean it will

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A number of people have been writing in to report that “Roar!”, the track that Michael Giacchino composed for the hit monster movie Cloverfield, has disappeared from iTunes just days after it finally became available for download. Here’s my post about when “Roar!” first appeared on iTunes.

I did a search on iTunes also, and “Roar!” isn’t showing up either in results or on Michael Giacchino’s page. However, if you go to the original URL that links directly to “Roar!”‘s page on iTunes, as of this writing it’s still showing up as being available. And for $0.99, the same as most other tracks on iTunes (it was originally selling for $1.99).

It’s probably just a glitch in the iTunes database. I can’t think of any other reason why a track that was in such wild demand would be yanked so quickly, or even at all. Anyhoo, ...

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Scott Kelly sends word that after three months of a lot of people wanting this, that “Roar!”, the instrumental piece by Michael Giacchino that plays over the end credits of Cloverfield (and the only original musical score composed for that movie) is now available for purchase via iTunes as of today. If you have iTunes already loaded on your computer then aim here to go straight to “Roar!”.

I just bought it and am listening to it now. “Roar!” is both monstrous and majestic. I thought that in addition to complementing Cloverfield, that it was a beautiful piece in its own right and a terrific homage to the classic Toho “giant monstah” movies that Cloverfield was inspired by.

Incidentally, the version of “Roar!” that you can download is five minutes longer than the one used in the movie. After listening to both – someone sent me a ...

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Not long after Cloverfield came out in January (read my review here) this blog received word from a reliable source (and still a reliable one in spite of things) that Michael Giacchino’s “Roar!”, the one bit of original music score for that movie, was going to be release “soon”. Obviously this did not happen and we are still waiting for it.

Well today Ain’t It Cool News is pointing everyone to a video at Film Score Monthly Online wherein Giacchino addresses the high demand for “Roar!” and the problems that have come with it. Nobody foresaw that a single piece of music like this would become so sought-after, Giacchino says. He also adds that the complete track is 13 minutes long and that when (not “if” but “when”) “Roar!” comes out it will be the full piece.

So sounds like it’s coming after all, just that they’ve ...

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“Weird” Ed (my college roomie and filmmaking partner) has been visiting us for the past few days, and yesterday he and I went to see Cloverfield. It was his first time catching it, and my third. I went again so that I could enjoy watching his reaction but also so that I could try, again, to see if I could spot the “falling object” in the Coney Island scene that’s the very last shot of the movie.

So we saw Cloverfield at the West End Cinema in Burlington (where we always used to go for movies when we were at Elon together), and “Weird” Ed liked it an awful lot. And this time, I’m pretty sure that I did see it this time. It’s very fleeting. Even if you have your eyes wide open and trying not to blink, it’s not easy to see at all. A very ...

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Nothing official has come out yet, but as a follow-up to what was posted earlier today, I’m now hearing from a fairly reliable source (meaning they’ve been accurate before) that Michael Giacchino’s “Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)”, the awe-inspiring bit of music from the end credits of Cloverfield, will be released “very soon”, as in probably this week. As many have hoped, the primary delivery vehicle is expected to be iTunes, but this is not an absolute. The important thing is, it does look like we’ll be able to purchase it shortly.

Thank goodness that this seems to be coming out so fast! I was starting to worry that I’d have to do another petition 😛...

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Few things about Cloverfield, the breakout hit monster movie that came out this weekend (here’s my earlier review)…

– Cloverfield‘s success already has director Matt Reeves discussing the sequel, which he suggests might take place on the same night as the attack, but showing a different story with other people’s cameras, cellphones, etc.

– I’m seeing a lot of demand for “Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)”, the orchestral track by Michael Giacchino (the composer for Lost) that plays over the end credits. It would be great if Paramount and Bad Robot could release this via iTunes or some other online distribution, because it would sell (and I would be one of those buying a download).

– If it’s not in the works already, I would like to heartily recommend to The Powers That Be that as Cloverfield represents one of the best launches of a fictional ...

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