Get it J.J. Abrams! I am $16 of the $41 Million that Cloverfield raised this weekend! It took $30 Million to make the movie and in one weekend, that was returned plus a whopping $11 Million more! That is awesome! And, so was the movie! Well worth the hype and the anticipation! J.J. Abrams is a genius!
Not to mention...but, I will...he beat the reissue of Star Wars: Episode 1 record for the biggest 3 day box office opening in January!
Way to go!
Now, I have to ask Lizzy Caplan who played the character Marlena in the movie, if she could take back her response to a question she was asked in an interview for BlackBook Insider (http://www.blackbookmag.com/features/comments/lizzy/) would she? The interviewer asked: "What convinced you to take the part?" Her response was, "I’m a fan of “Lost.” That was it. During the first few weeks, it was like, “Oh god, this is what we’re doing? I had no idea. I’ll never sign on to another film again not knowing full well what it is.” But honestly, if Woody Allen or Wes Anderson called me today, and said, “Hey you want to do something? You don’t get to read the script,” I’d be like, “Yes, yes, yes!”
I wonder if her fat paycheck will make her change her mind now that the numbers are out and this movie may be the difference between her little known name and her becoming one of Hollywood's newest It girls.
And, just to give you an idea of how little known she is, she was in Mean Girls and most recently, a show called The Class which aired on CBS in 2006 and 2007 and has since been taken off the air. I will admit that I liked that show but, most people probably wouldn't know what I am talking about if I told them she was in it. And, in most of the stuff that I have found online about her and her role in the movie, they mention that she was in Mean Girls but say nothing about her role as Kat Warbler in The Class.
So, in my most humble opinion, she should be honored to be in such a box office record breaker as Cloverfield. What about it was so off-putting? Was it the fact that you had to run around a lot? Was it all the blood and guts? Boo hoo! It was a great movie and possibly a huge boost in your career as an actress! Welcome to WORK! It is hard. It can be dirty. But, when it is good, it pays off!
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