EVIL PUPPET MASTERS

The official movie site for CLOVERFIELD is now live. Click on the piccie:

You can watch the trailer over and over again until your eyes cross - even in HD Enjoy!

According to SciFiWire, the director for the planned 2-hour pilot of BR’s new television project, Fringe, will be Alex Graves (Journeyman, The Nine, The West Wing). Fringe has a series commitment from Fox and will begin production in February. Graves will serve as an Exec Prod, along with JJ, Burky, Bob Orci & Alex Kurtzman.

I giggled myself silly over this article over at /Film.com, because it proves that viral marketing campaigns CAN be fun when the people behind them are …well, Evil Puppet Masters

It seems that the director of last Monday’s HEROES episode “Cautionary Tales” was Greg Yaitanes, and HEROES EP Greg Beeman revealed a series of photos of HEROES actors holding SLUSHO cups over at his blog that he says were set up by Yaitanes. Now, in the realm of “Six Degrees of JJ Abrams,” Yaitanes directed one of my favorite episodes of ALIAS, called “Another Mister Sloane” (Joel Grey FTW!!), plus two important episodes of LOST - “Solitary” and “Special.” So yeah, he’s connected to the BR boys in some fashion - but why these SLUSHO pics with the HEROES cast? The only explanation is a vague one (you’re shocked, I can tell):

Now, the next group of photos falls into the “don’t ask/don’t tell” category. I credit Greg Yaitanes for staging all these pix, under the supervision of Joe Pokaski. Their cultural significance will become clear in the coming months, so… pay attention!

For my fellow ALIAS fans, I would have to say that the following two pics were my faves:

And for those who watched Monday’s episode of HEROES, that cup that Elle (Kristen Bell) was drinking out of in her car while she waited with Mohinder at the beach should look VERY familiar

Now, what the hell does this have to do with Cloverfield? No idea - but it’s fun, isn’t it?

One more pic to share from the front lines of the WGA Strike.

That is former Alias scribe and current Journeyman writer, J.R. Orci, on the left, and his big brother, Roberto Orci, on the right. Bob and his writing partner, Alex Kurtzman, have written for Alias, as well as Mission: Impossible III and the currently filming 11th Star Trek movie.

Pic used by permission of J.R. Orci.

To keep up with the strike happenings, visit UnitedHollywood.com.
To find ways that YOU can support the writers of your favorite televisions shows, visit fans4writers.com.

A truly special delivery arrived for the LOST writers on the picket lines outside Disney Studios last week: their own personal Dharma Drop. Fans of the show from The Fuselage organized the care packages and had them hand-delivered to LOST Script Coordinator Gregg Nations. Here are some pics (courtesy of Fuser yukailin, who delivered the DD package), and I have c/p’d Gregg’s response to the package at the end of this post:

The Dharma Drop Box

The Goodie Bags for LOST Writers (those are “Island Explosion” Yogos in there…not that we WANT the Island to explode…again)

A very happy Gregg Nations receiving the Dharma Drop

Here is Gregg’s post from his fan club thread over at The Fuselage:

We got the Dharma Drop today on the picket line — you go, Fuselagers! What a nice surprise and a very considerate gift. Not only were the Lost writers appreciative, but other writers on the picket line were thrilled. They all loved the Dharma strike logo you came up with, and I even heard more than one writer say they wished they had fans like the Lost fans. Way to go, everyone! … Oh yes, and a big thanks to Carencey for organizing it so quickly, and Yuk[ailin] for driving it up to Disney…

Could not think of a better way to resurrect the EPM blog than with a link to the SECOND CLOVERFIELD TRAILER, available exclusively over at Empire Online.

For the record…Bad Robot still PWNS me.

GUH!!!! WANTS IT NOW!!!!