"Cloverfield" billboard
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 12, 2008 at 05:32 PM
Digital Cloverfield billboard above car wash at SE corner of Santa Monica and Westwood Blvds. -- Saturday, 1.12.08, 1:25 pm
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BEST DIRECTOR: Fernando Meirelles (Blindness), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Brian Singer (Valkyrie), Baz Luhrmann (Australia), Steven Soderbergh (The Argentine and Guerilla), Gus Van Sant (Milk), Gabriele Muccino (Seven Pounds), Joe Wright (The Soloist), Ridley Scott (Body of Lies), Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road), Clint Eastwood (Changeling), John Patrick Shanley (Doubt), Edward Zwick (Defiance), Saul Dibb (The Duchess), Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
BEST ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess), Hugh Jackman (Australia), Tom Cruise (Valkyrie), Harrison Ford (Crossing Over), Sean Penn (Milk), James Franco (Pineapple Express), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche, New York), Heath Ledger (Dark Knight), Will Smith (Seven Pounds), Jamie Foxx (The Soloist)
BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Keira Knightley (The Duchess), Nicole Kidman (Australia)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Leiv Schreiber (Defiance), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), John Malkovich (Changeling and Burn After Reading), Bill Nighy (Valkyrie), Robert Downey Jr. (The Soloist), Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic thunder), James Franco (The Pineapple Express), Alan Alda (Nothing But the Truth)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Meryl Streep (Doubt), Amy Adams (Doubt), Vera Farmiga (Nothing But the Truth)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (20th Century Fox)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Peter Straughan (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People)
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Comments
how much money is this flick going to make?
Posted by: actionman![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at
January 12, 2008 06:38 PM
Well, according to the Minnesota Fats of box office analysis, it will open with 40 million and then bomb because it's a piece of shit.
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at
January 12, 2008 07:27 PM
@ actionman - Tons. I am thinking around $37 million the first weekend, and a top off of around $120 million... unless it actually lives up to the ejaculatory review bestowed upon it by Harry Knowles and the bottomless wallets of Paramount that paid for those words. Then, it should reach $200 million.
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at
January 12, 2008 07:30 PM
i think it'll open to more than that, guys. my guess... 53 million.
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at
January 12, 2008 07:43 PM
Poland's backhanded pan is up today. Heh, who saw that coming?
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at
January 12, 2008 08:26 PM
Poland is a douche. He fuckin' championed Hairspray...
Is there any way that Cloverfield opens to only $15 million and then does $50 million domestic total? I doubt it, but is awareness really through the roof? I know the trailer was attached to Transformers and all the viral marketing and shit, but I just don't know how psyched people are overall for this movie. Me...I can't wait...but it looks to be my sort of thing. It's opening at the Arclight, and I can only assume in the Dome.
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at
January 12, 2008 09:50 PM
Oh, my guess for opening weekend is $36 million
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at
January 12, 2008 09:52 PM
How much were people predicting for Snakes on a Plane?
Of course if the movie actually turns out to be good I guess that's a different story.
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at
January 12, 2008 11:01 PM
I don't know, guys. I think that Mad Money could take away a huge chunk of the Cloverfield audience.
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at
January 12, 2008 11:02 PM
Don't forget 27 Dresses, Winchester. It's similar to Cloverfield really, except the monster is COMMITMENT.
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at
January 12, 2008 11:15 PM
Poland always backs the gay themed flicks: Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Still, you know he posted that just to piss Wells off. God, I love a good bitch fight!
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at
January 12, 2008 11:24 PM
"Cloverfield"? That movie's gonna be AWESOME!
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at
January 13, 2008 02:13 AM
With all the Cloverfield news around here, you'd think they renamed the movie to "Zodiac".
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at
January 13, 2008 10:04 AM
How are Sweeney Todd and Phantom "gay-themed?" Todd doesn't have a single gay vein in its body, and Phantom was too shitty for any self-respecting gay to get behind.
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January 14, 2008 08:38 AM
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