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Cloverfield

Film · 2008 · Notable

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An untitled teaser and online clues preceded a record $40 million January opening.

Trailer · YouTube Movies on YouTube
Cloverfield: poster
Wikipedia (non-free, fair use)
Cloverfield poster showing the Statue of Liberty through a camera lens.
Paramount Pictures
Cloverfield - Trailer
YouTube Movies on YouTube
The Statue of Liberty's head in a Manhattan street
Nathaniel Gray
AMC warning about Cloverfield's filming technique, photographed January 25, 2008; CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nehrams2020 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Cloverfield cast looking up in the street
SYFY WIRE
Explosion over Manhattan in the first teaser
/Film
Tagruato, a fictional company site from the Cloverfield viral campaign
Cloverfield Clues
Cloverfield viral poster: "I saw it. It's alive. It's huge."
/Film

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How it works
Reach75Contagion35Breadth60Velocity34Longevity2650

Numbers

Worldwide box office (Box Office Mojo; higher total)
$172.4M
As of Oct 22, 2026 · Box Office Mojo
Milestone date
Week of Jan 20, 2008
Jan 10 ’08 to Week of Jan 20, 2008
Platforms
4
Started on Box office
Leverage
6.9×
$172.4M on $25M budget

Mechanics

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  • Platform jump
  • Press loop
  • Controversy
  • Transgression

How it spread

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An untitled cinema teaser reached YouTube and forums. Fictional companies and character pages supplied clues. After public previews, the film set a January opening record; its second domestic weekend fell 68%.

Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.

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Timeline (16)

  1. July 2007

    Paramount Pictures precursor · Jul 3 ’07

    Paramount ran an untitled teaser before Transformers with the date 1-18-08.[1]

    Cloverfield cast looking up in the street
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  2. Soapbox_Monkey precursor · Jul 4 ’07

    Soapbox_Monkey opened a Straight Dope thread about the untitled trailer seen before Transformers.[2]

  3. Paramount Pictures precursor · Jul 9 ’07

    Paramount released the teaser on Apple after camera-phone copies had reached YouTube.[3]

    Explosion over Manhattan in the first teaser

  1. precursor · Jul 9 ’07

  2. precursor · Jul 11 ’07

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Origin
Mixed
Sector
Entertainment
Region
US
Worldwide box office (Box Office Mojo; higher total)
$172.4M
As of Oct 22, 2026 · Box Office Mojo
Evidence
Grade B

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