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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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Yerxa, Berger Rebuttals

At yesterday's "Movers & Shakers" (i.e., producers) panel at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein asked Little Miss Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa to comment about the Academy's grossly unfair decision to exclude them from the official group of three who, if LMS wins the Best Picture Oscar, will be allowed to go up onstage and receive a statuette, despite theirBerger and Yerxa being the film's "real" ground-floor producers.

Yerxa gave a soft-pedalled response, saying that the Producers Guild, which approved Yerxa and Berger as one of the LMS producers, and the Academy "are not fully conversant." Berger was more emphatic: "We produced this movie. Whatever the Academy may say or determine, we produced this movie."


Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 29, 2007 at 12:32 PM

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JD Author Profile Page says ...

What exactly is the Academy's agenda here? Apparently, they've also whacked several Departed producers (including Scorsese, Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, etc.), leaving only Graham King eligible.

Posted by JD Author Profile Page at January 29, 2007 2:13 PM

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Chris Late Author Profile Page says ...

I think the stated agenda is that in a time when some people are given a producer credit for little or no actual day-to-day participation (as part of a deal), the "real" producers are protected. That being said, in typical stupid academy fashion, decisions are made by formula (e.g., no more than three per flick) instead of examining what really went on...

Posted by Chris Late Author Profile Page at January 30, 2007 5:44 AM

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