April 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 am

Director Sam Mendes, who also made ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Jarhead,’ is starting production on his new romantic comedy in Connecticut this week. The Universal project just added Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara (photoshopped above) to the cast and is about a family trying to find the right place to start a family.
Other than the new cast members above, the movie will star John Krasinski (’The Office’) and Maya Rudolph (’Saturday Night Live’). No release date or year is currently set.
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Tags: american beauty, catherine ohara, jarhead, jeff daniels, john krasinski, maya rudolph, sam mendes, saturday night live, the office, universal Posted in Directors, New Movies, News
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April 22nd, 2008 at 2:00 am

Just while the DVD is coming out, producer and director J.J. Abrams came to the conclusion you have to watch ‘Cloverfield’ at home. “The thing about this movie (probably more than any I think) is that it is better on DVD than in the theater,” Abrams told Reuters. “Because the movie is like a videotape, it lives on your TV. In many ways, it is supposed to be viewed on a (TV) monitor.”
Maybe they didn’t even expect it to do so well at the box office and just wanted to make their money back on the rentals and media sales. He does have a point though. A lot of reviews already pointed out this was the perfect rental and it will probably be rented for years to come.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm

We know Steven Spielberg doesn’t like the internet because of its spoilers, but Michael Bay is using his new trick to solve this problem. For his new movie ‘Transformers 2,’ he is already releasing several misinformed facts about the blockbuster, so people on the internet won’t know which are true.
“Sorry everyone, everything you are reading (other then we are shooting in Philly) is false,” he wrote on his site. “We are going to give so much disinformation on this film to confuse everyone.”
I’m still not sure why they care that much about spoilers on the internet. Maybe they think people will get the wrong impression? But I do think his new technique can work. People believe the strangest things on the internet. So if he uses it well, people really won’t know what to believe anymore.