Paramount Pictures has released a final trailer for the Julius Avery-directed and J.J. Abrams-produced WWII Nazi zombie flick Overlord, which coupled with the early positive notices (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), looks bloody (operative word) good. Take a look at the new trailer here… With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into […]
Drew Goddard is interested in returning for a new Cloverfield movie
Writer of Cloverfield, Drew Goddard, has revealed that he would be interested in returning to the franchise. Now that Cloverfield has spawned a number of loosely connected sequels in anthology-style fashion, it’s easy to forget that the original film was written by Drew Goddard who has since gone onto the direct the likes of The Cabin […]
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot picks up sci-fi Aporia amid Cloverfield speculation
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has snapped up the sci-fi spec script Aporia from filmmaker Jared Moshe (The Ballad of Lefty Brown). Moshe is attached to direct the feature, with Abrams and Neda Armian producing. The logline is being kept tightly under wraps, but THR reports that […]
J.J. Abrams says Overlord is not a Cloverfield movie, but a direct Cloverfield sequel is in the works
For the past year or so, it has been assumed – and heavily rumured – that the J.J. Abrams-produced World War II supernatural adventure Overlord would be the fourth instalment in the Cloverfield series. Well, it turns out that isn’t the case after all, as Abrams has revealed at CinemaCon that Overlord is “not a […]
J.J. Abrams says Cloverfield 4 is “a crazy movie”
Despite the fact that The Cloverfield Paradox was pulled from its theatrical release and sent straight to Netflix (reportedly, because Paramount felt it was “unsalvageable”), it seems the studio isn’t ready to give up on J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot’s Cloverfield anthology series just yet. A fourth movie – Overlord – is already in the can, […]
How many people watched The Cloverfield Paradox on Super Bowl Sunday?
In one of the most audacious marketing moves ever, Netflix released The Cloverfield Paradox last Sunday, having teased it hours earlier during the first quarter of the US broadcast of the Super Bowl. The reaction was decidedly mixed (read our review here), but there’s no denying the power of the stunt, and the viewing figures make interesting […]
J.J. Abrams talks The Cloverfield Paradox and future of the franchise
Last Sunday, Netflix dropped a major surprise when it released The Cloverfield Paradox – the third instalment in Paramount and Bad Robot Productions’ Cloverfield cinematic universe. The film, originally going by the title God Particle, had been pushed back from its planned theatrical release on several occasions – with subsequent reports claiming that Paramount believed […]
Daisy Ridley-headlined Kolma set to be fifth Cloverfield movie?
Back in April of 2016 it was announced that Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams would be reuniting with his star Daisy Ridley for the fantasy thriller Kolma. Abrams is producing the film – a remake of a 2003 Israeli moive of the week entitled Kol Ma, a.k.a. All I’ve Got – through his […]
Fourth Cloverfield movie Overlord still planned for theatrical release
Netflix dropped a huge surprise this past Sunday by releasing The Cloverfield Paradox, with the streaming service picking up the rights to the J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi after its planned theatrical release date had been pushed back on several occasions. According to THR, the deal was worth in excess of $50 million, and immediately put the […]
J.J. Abrams on the possibility of a Cloverfield team-up film: “We’ve talked about versions of things”
We are three Cloverfield films in so far, and the series is still something of an enigma. We were given some long-awaited answers in The Cloverfield Paradox— regarding the origin of the adorable “Clovie” — but there are still plenty of questions to be answered regarding the universe that all three films are set in. […]