Slusho Unrelated to Cloverfield?! Possible JJ Abrams Side Project? |
| Published: December 10, 2007, 4:33 pm |
| Tags: paramount pictures, movie marketing, sci fi fantasy, action adventure, rumors, cloverfield, jj abrams, slusho |
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All this Cloverfield viral marketing has got me wondering. I have now talked to four people who have seen Cloverfield (not one negative so far), and they have confirmed to me something that I have believed all along - Slusho! has nothing to do with Cloverfield! Slusho! makes a brief appearance on the t-shirt of one of the characters, and I'm being told that is pretty much the extent of it. So the question now becomes: How did a JJ Abrams inside joke become the focal point of the entire viral marketing campaign for a movie that has nothing to do with everyone's favorite Japanese frozen beverage? I've been told by numerous sources that Paramount, Bad Robot, and even JJ Abrams didn't expect this much interest in their small January monster movie. Possibly afraid of a repeat of Snakes on a Plane, it appears that the studio doesn't plan to up the marketing budget for the movie. So maybe Slusho! was JJ Abrams' and Bad Robot's way of advertising the movie on a low budget? Or [ Full article ] |
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