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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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There's quite a contrast between

There's quite a contrast between Claudia Eller's reporting in today's L.A. Times about the firing of PMK/HBH honcho Leslee Dart by Pat Kingsley, and Stuart Elliot's version of the story in the New York Times. The apparent fact is that Eller got the story and Elliot didn't. Eller simply states that the 50 year-old Dart "lost an internal power struggle to take control of the agency from the 72 year-old Kingsley." Elliot pussyfoots around and interprets what happened mainly through quotes from Kingsley and Dart. Kingsley tells Elliot there was "a difference of opinion about the direction of the company and what we wanted to accomplish" and Dart tlles him she and Kingsley "had different ideas about the future of the company."

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 19, 2004 at 8:15 AM

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