According to a message from JJ that Harry Knowles at AICN received, those Ethan Haas sites DO NOT have anything to do with the “Cloverfield” movie. The only site that he affirms as being legit is the www.1-18-08.com site mentioned here previously.
Stay tuned…
This ain’t your daddy’s marketing campaign.
First off — I HAVE NO INSIDER KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THIS MOVIE. I’m just playing along like the rest of you, while being taunted mercilessly by people who DO know.
Here are some sites that we have been led to believe are part of the viral marketing campaign:
http://www.1-18-08.com
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com
Good hunting.
Bad Robot’s drama pilot (the first one under JJ’s new deal with Warner Bros.) has been cast and they say JJ Abrams will be directing it as well. They are referring to the show, which will air on HBO, by the name of the book it is based on — “The Anatomy of Hope” — but I’m not sure if that is the “official” title of the show. I think most people are calling it “that cancer show JJ’s doing on HBO.”
Oh lookie here! An actual article on “Star Trek” that I feel confident in posting! Such a rarity 
The Dynamic Duo…who I guess you guys know better as Bob Orci & Alex Kurtzman gave an exclusive interview to MTV about the Star Trek movie. Of course, they really don’t give any plot details, and answered most of the interviewer’s questions (hilariously) with the answer “Really, who can say?” *snort* Also, nice to know that Bob Orci may actually be geekier than his brother Rick — something I did not think possible.
*runs*
This interview with JJ Abrams by WIRED is over a month old, and I apologize. I’m weeding through my inbox to try and make sure I post the interviews and articles that shouldn’t be missed. Bear with me 
In this interview, JJ talks a tiny bit about Trek, his kids, his influences (Rod Sterling and Aristotle, if you’re curious), LOST, and The Dark Tower.
It looks like that mutual appreciation society formed by JJ Abrams and Stephen King may produce an offspring. Rumor has it, or at least SciFiWire claims that JJ and King are talking about possibly developing the latter’s Dark Tower series into a television mini-series or big screen production.
JJ Abrams is scheduled to appear at San Jose’s 17th annual Cinequest. The film festival runs from February 28th to March 11th. Check out the official site for more information.
William Shatner was in the Time magazine proverbial “hot seat” and answered their 10 Questions. Naturally, the forthcoming Star Trek: XI movie came up, as did JJ.
As usual, please take his ST:XI comments with a grain of salt
The one thing you can never deny is that Greg Grunberg and JJ Abrams in one room can make any event better. They are at their best when they are teasing each other, which is exactly what Greg does in this small article from the Rotten Tomatoes website. He also mentions what he would like to play in the 11th Star Trek movie that JJ is working on.
In this interview with iFMagazine, Jennifer Garner discusses her new movie “Catch & Release” as well as the end of Alias. This is the first part of the interview.
And by “brief” — I mean BRIEF, so don’t get your hopes up. But iFMagazine did get The Nomad to at least reiterate what is confirmed and NOT confirmed. In the unconfirmed category? STILL nothing official about whether or not JJ is going to direct.
A rare sight indeed. Entertainment Weekly somehow managed to get JJ to actually talk about the 11th Star Trek movie. The biggest news from the article (to me, at least) is that Bob & Alex have finally finished the first draft of the script. Not a lot of info outside of that morsel, except that EW needs a better fact-checker.
It’s Alex Kurtzman, not “Christian” — and thanks to EW, hundreds of articles across the country that referenced this one have ALSO misspelled his name. Oy and vey.
This was a LONG time coming. Thanks to JJ’s new television and film deals with Warner Bros. and Paramount, respectively, the Man needed some help at Bad Robot. BR has hired Kathy Lingg to handle television projects and Sherryl Clark to oversee BR’s film projects.
Along with these hires, two current BR employees received promotions. The lovely Athena Wickham and the sweetheart Ben Sokolowski are now “creative execs” for BR, having formerly been assistants to JJ and Burky, respectively.
Source: Variety
The Producer’s Guild of America announced which shows are nominated for awards this year and the producers of Lost are up for TV Drama.
The producers for Lost, namely JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Jean Higgins, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz and Elizabeth Sarnoff, have been nominated for a Producer’s Guild Award in the category of the Norman Felton Award in Episodic TV - Drama. They are up against the producers of Grey’s Anatomy, House, The Sopranos and 24. The winner will be announced January 20th, 2007.