publication date: Friday, January 25, 2008 (part of Round XXXIII)

category: Movies

clue: The felicitous timing of monsterous box-office hits is not lost on this filmmaker.

explanation: Abrams produced the movie Cloverfield and TV series Felicity and Lost. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Scott Horowitz, Walter Chesser, Shawn Brandt, Greg Bair, Jim Kraus, Allison Bair, JB Brenner, Eric Wallhagen, and John Tate

trivia: Cloverfield was the record-breaking #1 hit at the box office when this goo was published. There were four guesses for Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and one guess for David Hinton.


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