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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Collider's Steve Weintraub recently learned from Reese Witherspoon at a press event for DreamWorks Monsters vs. Aliens that Cameron Crowe's somewhat curious-sounding next film, a Scott Rudin production in which RW was to costar with Ben Stiller for Columbia Pictures, has been "postponed." She didn't say the Crowe movie has been jettisoned, but "postponed" sounds a little more ominous than "delayed." To me anyway.

Last summer Crowe's script was described on www.goneelsewhere.com as "a tropical romantic adventure comedy with light sci-fi and heavy supernatural aspects," so it sounds like someone (i.e., Amy Pascal) has gotten cold feet on the project.

Witherspoon said she's now "actually in James L. Brooks' next movie so we're going to start that in the Spring."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 12, 2008 at 6:58 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

Plus Stiller just jumped into Ruffalo's role in Noah Baumbach's next. I hate to say it but this is probably best for everyone. I'd love for Crowe to find his voice again instead of doing something that sounds strangely like JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (which is awesome, but there should only be one.)

Posted by BurmaShave at December 12, 2008 7:29 AM

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MilkMan says ...

I can wait for the next Cameron Crowe movie. I can wait a long time.

Posted by MilkMan at December 12, 2008 8:14 AM

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actionman says ...

Never been a huge fan of Crowe. My favorite film of his is Vanilla Sky and I enjoyed Almost Famous except for the fact that Hudson ruined every scene that she appeared in.

This new flick sounds...well...like a turkey.

Posted by actionman at December 12, 2008 9:48 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

The first two-thirds of SAY ANYTHING, the performance he extracted from Cruise in JERRY MAGUIRE and ALMOST FAMOUS have earned Crowe a lifetime pass. At the same time I entirely get where MilkMan is coming from, and laughed for awhile when I read his stern statement.

Posted by BurmaShave at December 12, 2008 10:01 AM

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MilkMan says ...

I would like to give Cameron Crowe a pass, mainly because he wrote Fast Times and I have always had a soft spot for The Wild Life. As a teenager, I thought that if I acted like Lloyd Dobler I would score the attention of the hottest girl in 11th grade. Didn't work. He has written some great lines and created some pretty idelible characters. So a part of me feels that he shoul be given the benefit of doubt. But then I think of what it was like to watch Elizabethtown and I stop feeling that way. I think of the missed opportunity that was Almost Famous (Billy Crudup wearing tapered jeans and Timberland work boots in 1975? The drummer saying "I'm gay" during turbulence? No nudity, no fucking, no rampant coke use? The movie was a whitewash). But mostly I think of Elizabethtown.

Posted by MilkMan at December 12, 2008 11:48 AM

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Wiggumx says ...

But DAMN do I love that whitewash!

Posted by Wiggumx at December 12, 2008 1:25 PM

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Jeff says ...

My friend emailed me this script last summer and I couldn't even get past the first twenty pages. It was atrocious. I seriously thought that it was a joke, and someone just slapped Crowe's name on a terrible script to get people to read an utter piece of shit. I still hope this is the case. However, I read a review of the script on another site and it was the same garbage I read.

Posted by Jeff at December 12, 2008 1:33 PM

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rr3333 says ...

Can someone do something about the Leno-ish chin of Witherspoons? I want to vomit when looking at that chin like the baby did on Witherspoon in '4 Xmas''.

Posted by rr3333 at December 12, 2008 8:18 PM