Snapshot of ClOVERFIELD(2008).
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1-18-08 Has Been Updated
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Friday, July 13, 2007
Source: 1-18-08 Movie
A new photo has appeared on the (known) official site of JJ Abram's upcoming monster movie. It appears that a new photo will appear on 1-18-08.'s official site once a week. The new photo is time stamped 12:48 am and shows the people in a cloud of either dust or smoke. What does this say about the progress?
Photo #1: 1-18-08/ 12:01 am. Everyone's partying in the goodbye party.
Photo #2: 1-18-08/12:36 am. They're looking up at the monster in fear.
Photo#3: 1-18-08/12:48 am. Something has happened. Mass destruction and clouds of dust and smoke.
That's the timeline so far for JJ Abram's upcoming 1-18-08.
As JJ Abrams hinted, there are more sites online linked officially to the project i.e his statement that "1-18-08.com is the only one that has been found". He told AICN this to dispell the rumors that Ethanhaaswasright.com and Ethanhaaswaswrong.com was not linked to his movie. We do know, however, that those two sites are linked to Paramount. For what, who knows?
What we do know: The movie opens up on the date 1-18-08 as far as current Paramount schedules are concerned. The film stars Michael Stahl-David, Odet Jasmin, Mike Vogel and Lizzy Kaplan. It's directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard. JJ Abrams is producing it and it is a monster movie.
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Japanese site, all in English (besides menu titles) , the wackiness of the story and the links to Abrams' world definitely point this site as one of the other sites that Abrams suggested to exist.
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