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Well, JJ Abrams super duper secret movie monster project has tricked us all.? It’s official title is Cloverfield and it will be released on Jan. 18, 2008.

We held off on posting this trailer because it first hit the internet last week in a crappy bootlegged version and that’s no way to watch a trailer.? An HD version should probably hit Apple’s trailer section sometime today or tomorrow, but we’ll keep you posted when it does.

Looks pretty rad, no?

Lotsa stuff to get to this morning and rather than try to do each of these by giving them the space to breath, we’re gonna smash them into one extended post and hope we hit everything. Today’s my birthday and per tradition that started in college I take the day off to celebrate me, which usually ends up in me getting drunk at noon and watching bloody disgusting movies that no one else will watch with me. I’m thinking about doing a Hostel Part 2 and 28 Weeks Later movie marathon.

So I’ll be shutting things down after leaving you with some good stuff today. We’ve got two movies reviews from the NW Film Fest to get up and a music premiere that I think you won’t enjoy, but you should find endearing.

I’d also like to give a warm happy birthday greeting to Dwight Gooden and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

On with the news:

- Kevin Smith is getting his inner Judd Apatow on. He’s cast Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks as the leads in his upcoming flick Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It’ll be nice to see some fresh faces from one comedy universe transplanted to another one.

- Tim Burton returns to Disney to direct a motion-captured version of Alice in Wonderland! Really would you want any other director doing this. He’s also going to direct a feature length version of Frankenweenie. All I can say is Johnny Depp for the Mad Hatter…

- MTV has footage from the upcoming DVD of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.

- Speaking of Harry Potter, Worst Previews has a behind the scenes video of the now-filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They’re just cranking these badboys out aren’t they?

- Hulk get angry and smash pretty girls! Just kidding, but the first trailer for the Eric Bana, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson starring The Other Boleyn Girls has arrived.

- Guud, director McG has been locked into to direct the fourth Terminator flick: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.? Which was going to be called “Straight To Video” in its original draft.

- Speaking of cool trailers, did you like that transition?? How does this sound: Jackie Chan and Jet Li kick some ass in a martial arts picture titled The Forbidden Kingdom. ?

- The latest Cloverfield trailer has been pirated by a camera cellphone.? It’s not difficult to find on YouTube, but we seriously recommend you waiting for the non-pirated version when it hits either today or Monday.

- Jeff Bridges hints there may be a sequel in the works to everyone’s favorite movie growing up: Tron. ?

- Persepolis is an animated movie from France about the Iranian revolution and it’s in subtitles and it looks like American animation from 1935 but if you can get past all of that it also looks frakking awesome.

And the title pretty much says it all.? The guys over at Chud have gotten a look at the J.J. Abrams mysterious monster movie that will hit theaters on January 18, 2008.? We’ve been following this since seeing the jawdropping first trailer which pretty much kicked off all the hype and viral marketing.

But since that initial excitement seems that people have stopped caring.? Seems like the promotional people were going for the 100 yard sprint instead of the marathon.? We’ll have to see if they can generate some buzz again after the new trailer.

Turns out all the speculation over what the movie might be called, there’s a good chance the movie will still be called Cloverfield upon it’s release.

We’ll keep you posted when the new trailer hits the web, probably around Nov. 16 when the mo-cap Beowulf hits theaters.

Really.? Seems that we’ll find out more when the guys behind this movie do something for Comic Con.? It’s inevitable that there would be a big presentation … or more sneakery.? Either way.? This looks to be the one sheet for Cloverfield.? Or I guess Monstrous as we’ll have to refer to it now.

That’s it we’re done writing about a stupid movie trailer.? Okay, it’s not stupid.? But, Harry over at AICN got an email from the mastermind himself JJ Abrams regarding the movie.

It’s got about three working titles now, with 01-18-08 being one and obviously Cloverfield but then there is also Slusho.? Which for you non-Alias fans was the name of a slurpee offered to Sidney Bristo in the second episode of the series.

Apparantly all the websites floating around in conjunction with the flick are not connected with it.? The only site so far connected to the movie is the official site: 1-18-08.com Abrams insists there are other websites connected to the movie, just that we haven’t found them yet.? Curiously, it seems they’ve learned from the Snakes on a Plane debacle and are trying to craft a movie worthy of an internet viral marketing campaign.

I feel like but a pawn in J.J. Abrams game of chess.? So without further ado, the mysterious trailer has finally been released, and it’s already got CNBC talking about it.

Head over to Apple to see the trailer in glorious Quicktime.

Again, J.J. Abrams doing the internet campaign well, as this marketing ploy has been the talk of the movie world for the past week, taking time away from Transformers.? Hard to imagine that a two minute trailer would usurp a big budget robot movie.

Here’s CNBC’s take.? Love the use of The Strokes in the background.? Who knew CNBC was so hip with the young folks.