Cloverfield Crushes The Box Office

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Wired reports that "J.J. Abrams' creature feature Cloverfield raked in an estimated $16.7 million in its first day of release, according to Box Office Mojo. The big opening lands the film near the top of the list for one-day January box-office hauls, and puts the jitter-cam flick, which reportedly cost only $25 million to make, on track to be a monstrous moneymaker.

The movie, dubbed "a monster for the MySpace generation" by the The (San Jose) Mercury News, will probably pick up steam over the long weekend on the strength of positive reviews (like ours)." Wired's reporter suggests you "wait out the bombastic soundtrack that rolls under the credits to hear the mysterious words at the end of the film."

The studio did a viral marketing campaign with some fake UFO footage, which was FEATURED HERE back in August - hey, you never know

Here is the trailer:

[bmc]

it was an EXCELLENT movie.

[DudeAsInCool]

PrettyMuchAmazing has posted links for the songs on the soundtrack:

Coconut Records - West Coast

Kings of Leon - "Taper Jean Girl"

The Blood Arm - "Do I Have Your Attention"

Scissors For Lefty - "Got Your Moments"

Parliament - "Give Up the Funk"

Gorillaz - "19-2000"

Spoon - "The Underdog"

Kings of Leon - "Pistol of Fire"

Architecture in Helsinki - "Do The Whirlwind"

The Black Keys - "Grown So Ugly"

Bright Eyes - "Four Winds"

Joan As Policewoman - "The Ride"

Ratatat - "Seventeen Years"

Of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned To The Mist and Other Games