B-Fest really ends whenever the last person hits the road; that was Jabootu design expert Chris “The Aging Cute One” Magyar Sunday evening. Yesterday I basically slept all day and recuperated. Today I’m largely up and about, and will start work on a shortish B-Fest diary.
Thanks to Liz Kingsley for hitting the post button on my half of our Freddy vs. Jason team-up, since I was busy B-Festing. It was great to get to read her article, and I assume everyone has.
I see Cloverfield had a ‘monster’ weekend (to think you lucky folks get this sort of material for free), earning an incredible (estimated) $46 million over the long holiday weekend, a record breaking sum for the month of January. The film is close to being in the black already, and that doesn’t count foreign monies and, naturally, what are sure to be very lucrative home video and TV rights revenues. This is good news for giant monster fans. Surely the Weinsteins will finally get off their fat asses and release the killer croc movie Rogue at this point, and maybe the giant shark flick Meg will finally be slated for production, or whatever. Surely, though, we should see a few more giant monsters at least.
Stay away from Asylum’s awful Monster, though, which was their DTV version of Cloverfield released last Tuesday. It’s literally unwatchable, or at least it was for me. Just horrible.
