Tagruato and the sword

On the About Us and the Deep Sea Drilling pages of Tagruato.jp there is now the black sword similar to the ones on the Slusho! and the 1-18-08.com site.

I will keep you updated.

-UPDATE-
April 3 9:22 AM MST
The About Us page has removed the sword while Deep Sea Drilling page has not

-UPDATE- April 3 10:24 AM MST
The sword has returned to the About Us Page

-UPDATE-

Here are the pictures of the swords from the page. The files names are index_grad_head.jpg for About Us and deepsea_grad_head.jpg for Deep Sea Drilling.

Teddy Hanson Missing Poster and Slusho! Sword

Yeah I know I have had a hell of a time keeping this thing updated but I swear I am alive.

So latest news? A new picture on 1-18-08.com A missing poster for Teddy! You remember Teddy right? He is the boyfriend to Jamie from the JamieandTeddy.com tie ins. While Jamie was only in the movie all of 30 seconds she and Teddy (first time pictured) played a huge part in the pre viral marketing. On the back of the poster is this a symbol that is also on the main page and the contest page of the Slusho! website as of like a week ago. The only difference is the one is reverse from the other and it has the numbers on it. 430 I think. What does it mean?

Cloverfield ROAR! Overtune, comnig soon?

Thanks to CloverfieldClues.com:

Film Score Magazine has a video interview with Michael Giacchino, the composer of Cloverfield's closing credits overture "Roar!". Giacchino was surprised by the demand for the score, but is said to be working on releasing it in some form soon, presumably in time for the DVD release.

ScoreKeeper of AICN reports that "the original composition was thirteen minutes long while the version which ended up in the film was edited down to eleven minutes. [Giacchino] concludes by saying the version they’re going to release will be the full thirteen minute work."

Cloverfield on DVD

So many of you know these fabulous movie is coming out on DVD pretty quickly. There are many special editions as far as I know. I8 seriously doubt it will ever come out on HD-DVD as that is the way of the past. However standered DVD and BlueRay is going to happen.

The DVD when come out on June 9th in the UK.
The special features are as follows:
Keep in mind this is as per Play.com so it may not be 100% correct.

• Commentary by Director Matt Reeves
• Case Designate: Cloverfield (50 mins)
• Easter Eggs
• Document 01.18.08: The Making of Cloverfield
• Cloverfield Visual Effects
• I Saw It! It's Alive! It's Huge!
• Clover Fun
• Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary
• Alternate Endings with Optional Commentary

According to DVDActive Paramount has officially announced the Cloverfield DVD release, with the following details:

Paramount Home Entertainment has officially announced Cloverfield which stars Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, TJ Miller. The Matt Reeves directed monster flick will be available to own from the 22nd April, and should retail at around $27.95. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include a commentary by Director Matt Reeves, 4 featurettes (The Making of Cloverfield, Cloverfield Visual Effects, I Saw It! It's Alive! It's Huge, and Clover Fun), 6 additional scenes (Congrats Rob, When You're in Japan, I Call That a Date, It's Going to Hurt, Alt Ending #1, Alt Ending #2), and multiple eastereggs.

On March 18, 2008 the official Cloverfield Website had announced the DVD. Here is the ad:
You can find it just about anywhere. The official site links to Amazon.com but you can pre-order it pretty much anywhere. I would imagine WalMart will come out with some WalMart only edition as they do for everything. Details from what I know on "spacial edition" DVDs are few. Acccording to Cloverfieldclues.com there will be a 'Steelbook' packaging that will be at Suncoast and FYE they got this info from IGN. I have heard rumors of the UK DVD being in a smashed up tin box. Which has pretty much been confirmed by IGN.

One this to look at is the head of the statue of liberty on the side of the ad, it is not like the statue in the movie. For one there are no claw marks in its face, it's not lying on it's side. And so on. On the right is a picture of the head compared with a picture of the head from the "escape from new york" poster which the movie was based on. And above that is two screen shots one from the movie and the other from the teaser trailer. My guess? An homage to the first film.

Thanks to CloverFieldClues.com for the photos!

Slusho and a sword?

On the Slusho! website they had a new strange symbol post. It looks to me like a sword with maybe a quote balloon or the number 9 being stabbed. It's on the main page and the contest page. There are no other changes to the site.

-UPDATE- The sword has since than turned black instead of blue. You can click on the black sword for a larger picture.

Cloverfield Magna

Kadokawa, a large Japan based comic book company has been producing a comic for Cloverfield. It's a prequel to the movie.

Part 1 Translated here.
Part 2 Translated here.

I will post more as info comes. There is lots of secrets and stuff but most of it can be found as that above site.

The official site is here.

From what I understand the entire story is based a while before the movie. Even translated it's hard to read. But still very cool. Check it out.

Related articles found here and here

Cloverfield Monster the Toy

Hasbro has posted pictures of the Cloverfield Monster toy. This thing is very limited edition. And at $100.00 a pop, not easy to get a hold of.

Figures.com has posted a gallery of pictures of the toy.

Features

Cloverfield Monster Features: 70 points of articulation and incredible life-like detail Authentic sound 14” tall 10 parasites Two interchangeable heads Statue of Liberty head accessory Special Cloverfield collector’s edition packaging In conjunction with the launch of the highly anticipated CLOVERFIELD movie release, Hasbro, in a partnership with Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, has produced a super-articulated and highly detailed limited collector’s edition Cloverfield Monster. The Cloverfield monster is available exclusively through HasbroToyShop.com. Reserve your Cloverfield monster today to have the opportunity to receive it when it ships later this year. Limited quantities are available. Includes 3 “AAA” Batteries. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years. Cloverfield TM & © 2008 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Slusho Laptop

On CloverfieldClues.com there is a post about a loyal Cloverfield fan, Austin and his spiffy Slusho! Laptop. The lap top was a prize in a Slusho! commercial contest.

JamieandTeddy.com (password: jllovesth)

There are 11 videos (as of 11-21-08) if you start from 1 it pretty much tells a story of this girls boyfriend Teddy, who is working to stop a company called Tagruato Corp, which is a drilling company and gives off a "Umbrella Corp." feel. Anyways, the videos don't tell a whole lot till about the 3rd or 4th in which Teddy sends Jamie a package which she can't open until December 9th.

After a few videos of her basically going "I hate you! you never call" she opens the package early to find a Slusho! hat, a sample of Seabed's Nectar which reads "DO NOT EAT", and message from Teddy which says:

Jamie, listen to me, alright this is not a joke. If you're hearing this before we've spoken, then it means that I've been captured by the company called Tagruato. Ok, TAG-RU-ATO. Now listen. You, this is important. Don't call the authorities. It'll screw everything up. Just sit tight and wait to hear from Randy. He knows to call you. We're on their station ok, and it's like they've found something, or they're making something, but the point is, I can't, I'm not going to be calling you again. You're not gonna hear from me again. I just want you to wait for Randy.. he will explain

[Jamie stops tape]

She gets all pissy and assumes he is lying and cheating. The common viewer gets that something has gone or is going very wrong.

Slusho, is a sub-company of Tagruato.

In video 6, Jamie calls Tagruato asking for Teddy, they have never heard of him.

In video 8, Jamie opens the packge of Seabeds Nectar, sniff it and makes the comment

"Wow, definitely opens my sinuses, that's for sure"

she than taste it,

"Tastes pretty good...Woah, what is this stuff that you sent me? I feel great, I'm gonna go out..."

In videos 9 and 10 she just goes off about hating him. 9 seems a bit more "hyper" which could be from the Nectar but I am unsure.

In video 11, which was released on 1-18-08 it shows her all dressed up. She says:

"I love you haha, I am finally over you and you know what, I feel like a whole new woman and it’s like it’s gonna be the first night of the rest of my life and and Lily is putting this thing together, and I’m gonna go to it and I don’t know why I just soo like I’m like uh the happiest the happiest I’ve ever been in my whole life and I don’t know I have like MASSIVE amounts of energy I’m gonna have MASSIVE amounts of sex with Schneider and it’s just gonna be great and I just think you should say goodbye to these breast (kisses breasts) cause you’re never gonna see them again and look here (slaps butt) I think you’re pathetic."

This is assuming after her eating more of the Nectar, the character "Lilly" is the same person who throws a surprise party for Rob, which is the same party. She is wearing the same dress in this video as she is in the picture on 1-18-08.com, and in the movie it self. At some point the character "Hud" is walking around the party filming stuff and shows Jamie, in the same dress passed out on the couch.

Jamies fate in the movie is unknown.

She also has a myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jamielascano

MySpace

The characters also ALL have there own MySpace, I have links on the side of the page to each single one. I highly suggest you check em out. If you surf all of there MySpaces you will see blog posts, comments and photo comments that help tell the story and round out the characters as "people".

The point of the sites in the first place is to help give clues to how the story works. May work, whatever. The personalties of everyone and just rounds the whole story out. But movie characters with MySpaces are more and more common these days. Oddly enough most of the season one Heroes characters have there own MySpace as well. Slusho! has been seen on Heroes before.