In honor of Super 8 coming out today, here's a retro Poster for the flick!

My review will be up soon enough, but I highly recommend the movie...it's a lot of fun!

Tonight I learn the secrets of Super 8...

...and I'm actually pretty excited. It's rare that you can go into a big movie without knowing all the major beats these days, so credit where credit is due for that alone. Fingers crossed that J.J. Abrams has crafted something memorable, but that's not in my control. If anyone has seen it yet, feel free to chat it up below, but no spoilers! Aside from that, stay tuned for my reactions!

Could Super 8 be heading to an only modest opening at the Box Office?

Here's what The Hollywood Reporter has to say:

Trying to debunk buzz in Hollywood that pre-release tracking is soft for J.J. Abrams' Super 8, Paramount says the $50 million-budgeted movie doesn't need a big opening weekend because it cost far less than a big studio tentpole.

Paramount has its job cut out for it in managing expectations.

Super 8, opening in theaters Friday, is one of the summer's more high-profile projects because of Abrams and Steven Spielberg, who produced the sci-fi alien pic, set in the late 1970s in a small Ohio town.

However, the studio has refrained from showing the creature at the center of the film in trailers or its ad campaign, hoping to build interest in the film among those curious to see its secret revealed. A similar strategy worked well with the Abrams-produced Cloverfield in 2008, but some are questioning whether more should have been shown with Super 8.

Take a gander at a new Trailer for Super 8!

With the release Friday, this is likely our last look at the flick. Here you go:

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-Joey's Two Cents: This appears to give away a bit too much, but I'm still digging it...thoughts?

Super 8 started life as a heist film...and some more interesting tidbits!

The Playlist has the details:

After a year of secrecy, J.J. Abrams’ nostalgia-fuelled monster movie “Super 8” is finally done—the film is locked, it has screened for critics (a Playlister has seen it, although we can’t yet tell you what we thought) and it hits theaters in a couple of weeks. While most of the details are still under wraps, Abrams, and producer Steven Spielberg, have started doing the PR rounds ahead of the film’s release two weeks from now.

Empire have some pretty ace access with the film: not only does their latest issue, which hit newsstands yesterday, has an extensive feature on the film, but they also talked to Abrams and Spielberg for a lengthy video interview on their site. While they kept characteristically tight-lipped about the film, there’s a few interesting tidbits that are worth checking out. Below, the ten most interesting pieces of info. For more, check out the video on Empire’s site, or get the July 2011 issue of the magazine.

The juicy bits are after the jump...

Could Super 8 be a real Best Picture contender this year?

From Movie Line:

The response to the Super 8 trailer debut has been sweeping and overwhelmingly positive. One look, and you can see why: Standard-issue marketing voodoo aside, J.J. Abrams’s latest portends a rare harmony of sweetness and ambition, homage and envelope-pusher, sincerity and mastery. Believe the hype or not, at least one thing seems clear: At least one Best Picture nomination next year is spoken for, right?

We all probably could have deduced this without a trailer, obviously: Abrams’s Star Trek was on the bubble for last year’s “blockbuster wild-card” spot that eventually went to District 9, and friends (i.e. producers) like Steven Spielberg — whose sci-fi fantasias of the late ’70s-early ’80s are paid tribute here — definitely won’t work against Abrams. (Though the Spielberg-directed Oscar-bait War Horse might.) “Wild card” may be too vague, though, for the creative and commercial success Super 8 is shaping up to be. When you scan the the list of summer 2011 releases, Super 8 has a monolith stature more reminiscent of Inception than District 9 — a sleek, determined, massive entertainment positioned as much for its long shadow as for its blinding mid-June flashpoint.

Behold the full length Trailer for Super 8!

It certainly looks like something interesting:

-Joey's Two Cents: I love how much it resembles early Spielberg...I'm in. Thoughts?