WARNING -- SPOILERS AHEAD: This article contains background information and plot details on the film CLOVERFIELD and its viral marketing campaign, and recklessly indulges in spoilers and speculation, so beware.
Paramount's Cloverfield broke the box office record for best January opening ever, earning an estimated $46 million this holiday weekend. Not so shocking since the J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick was probably the most anticipated film to be released in a month known for its poor box office returns. What is shocking is that special-effects-filled film was made for a mere $25 million, though, that's not counting all the money spent all its well-known viral marketing campaign...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
'Cloverfield' Mythos Explored: Monsters + Marketing = Millions
Oscar Nominations for 2007
Atonement, Juno, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and Michael Clayton are this year's Oscar nominations for Best Picture.
No Country for Old Men leads with 8 nominations, with Atonement close behind with 7 nods.
The awards ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC on February 24, 2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET, though if the writer's strike continues, it's unclear whether actors will be appearing is still to be determined. Actors would not cross the picket line in January to attend the Golden Globes ceremony, forcing to event to be cancelled. Instead, winners were announced during an non-televised press conference.
Full lists of nominees is here after the jump...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Monday, January 21, 2008
'Star Trek XI' Teaser Trailer + Viral Site
Yippee!!!
The teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek XI is now online at Yahoo! Movies in standard and high definition formats.
The teaser trailer debuted this weekend in theaters in front of the Abrams-produced Cloverfield...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Movie Review: The Bucket List
The Bucket List
Directed by Rob Reiner
Starring Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes
Rated: PG-13
Released date: Jan 11, 2008
I like pizza. I'd say it's one of my favorite foods. It's easy, it's always good, and you can create variety just by changing a few toppings around (I'd say I'm a supreme guy, for anyone interested). I also like chili and spaghetti. But if you tried to put chili and spaghetti on a pizza I don't know that the end would justify the means. (Actually, that doesn't sound half bad…). My point is just because you like the ingredients doesn't mean you will like the finished product as a dish. You could say The Bucket List is kinda like a chili-spaghetti pizza...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Movie Review: Cloverfield
Cloverfield
Directed by Matt Reeves
Produced by J.J. Abrams
Starring Michael Stahl-David, T.J. Miller, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas
Rated PG-13
Released date: Jan. 18, 2008
The night before Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) is scheduled to leave for Japan, his friends throw him a going-away party at his apartment in downtown Manhattan. While his friend Hud (T.J. Miller) films the event with a hand-held camera, drama unfolds as Beth (Odette Yustman), with whom Rob spent one romantic day a month prior, arrives with a new guy on her arm. But before the social drama can fully unfold, something emerges from the ocean and begins destroying the city. As an emergency evacuation begins and the military begins to fight back, Rob and a few of his friends turn back in an effort to save Beth, all while Hud films...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
GoD Site and Server Update
Howdy Doom Readers & Writers,
Ok, so we're safely over the technological hump now and our Doom servers are all doing their natural thing like they's supposed ta be a doin'. The problem was with our DNS router, which figuratively speaking, works out to one of our servers getting lost in the woods and forgetting its own name---a daily occurrence on a soap opera, but not so much for your average server farm. Thankfully, we's all good again!...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
DVD Review: Golden Door
Directed by Emanuele Crialese
Charlotte Gainsburg and Vincenzo Amato
Presented by Martin Scorsese
PG-13/ 118 minutes
Miramax Home Video
Golden Door is a dramatic tale of two people finding hope and love on a voyage to the New World. Presented by Miramax films and Martin Scorcese, Golden Door tells of the difficult journey of a Sicilian peasant named Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato) bringing his two sons Angelo and Pietro (Franseco Casisa and Filippo Pucillo), his mother Fortunata (Aurora Quattrocchi), and his two wards Rita and Rosa (Federica De Cola and Isabella Ragonese) to America and the chance meeting he has with Lucy Reed, also known as Lucea Reed (Charlotte Gainsburg) on the same journey to America via Ellis Island...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Friday, January 18, 2008
'Doomsday' Trailer + Images + Synopsis
Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures have debuted the theatrical trailer for the upcoming action-thriller Doomsday from writer/director Neil Marshall, starring Rhonda Mitra, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm McDowell.
We're also received production photos and official synopsis for Doomsdays, which hits theaters on March 14, 2008.
Check out the new trailer in standard and high-definition formats at Yahoo! Movies; production photos and official synopsis are here after the jump...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
DVD Review: The Hunting Party
Directed by Richard Shepard
Starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg
Genius Products/The Weinstein Company
Available Jan. 22, 2008
There are a few ways to tell a director of a film is too cool for the room. As you can see, accompanying this review is the DVD art for The Hunting Party. Also, I asked if the DVD art for Richard Shepard’s previous film, 2005’s The Matador, could also be displayed. Now both are wonderful films, dark comedies of the highest order. But you couldn’t tell that just from looking at these two pieces of advertisement. They kinda look like they went to SpikeTV before they went to video, don’t they? There is nothing evident on either of these DVD cases of the movies contained therein...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
'Star Trek XI' First Photo + Live Site
MovieFone has an exclusive first look at the U.S.S. Enterprise from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek XI.
See the image here after the jump; click for super large view!
Also, Parmount has gone live with the official site for the film, which hits theaters December 25, 2008. Visit the site at paramount.com/startrek. There's not much there right now, except a brief synopsis and some movie credits (see them below)...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
'Baby Mama' Trailer + Images + Synopsis
Tina Fey and Amy Poehlerstar in the upcoming comedy Baby Mama, from writer/director Michael McCullers and producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn.
AOL MovieFone has the trailer for, which can be viewed here after the jump along with production photos and official synopsis sent from Universal Pictures...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Movie Review: Pocahauntus
Pocahauntus (2006)
Directed by Veronica Craven
Written by Veronica Craven, Barry J. Ratcliffe
Starring Lisa Allen, Chris Angelo, Stephanie Basco, Julia Bindi
Unrated
This is why I've been dissatisfied with the gushy and overly ecstatic reviews of cheap, DTV movies on horror sites. It isn't because they're stupid or have poor taste or are just cronies to the genre, hoisting the "SUPPORT HORROR!" flag until they're dead to the last man. It's because the nuts and bolts of horror, the actual structural exoskeleton, is so easy that ANYBODY thinks they can do it. And that's the problem. "ANYBODY" does...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
What Will Be the Science Fiction Cult Film of 2008?
As George Lucas sadly discovered several years ago, you can't deliberately create a cult film.
Sure, J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves are doing their best to make Cloverfield (which opens Jan. 18) the cult science fiction hit of '08, but there is an increasing feeling of desperation about the project as it nears release...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Movie Review: 27 Dresses
27 Dresses
Directed by Anne Fletcher
Starring Katherine Heigl, Edward Burns, James Marsden, Malin Akerman
Rated PG-13
Release date: Jan. 18, 2008
Romantic comedies tend to exist in their own little world, don't they? A world where they make up their own rules without any grasp, or even real connection to the rest of the planet. A world where everything gets a tidy treatment and at the end of the day everyone's problems are solved in just under 100 minutes. They are the sitcoms of the movie world and they rarely make apologies to that point...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Contest: 'Kyle XY' Prize Pack
Here at Geeks of Doom we're giving away a Kyle XY Prize Pack!
(1) Winner will receive:
- Kyle XY Season 1 DVD
- Kyle XY Season 1 Soundtrack
- Kyle XY Calendar
TO ENTER:...find out all the contest details at Geeks of Doom!
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