Saturday, May 23, 2026

Super Bowl Night Surprise: Paramount Dumps Unreleasable “Cloverfield Paradox” Film on Netflix

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The Eagles winning wasn’t the only surprise on Super Bowl Sunday.

Paramount dumped the JJ Abrams- produced “Cloverfield Paradox” on unsuspecting Netflix fans without any warning.

Originally titled “God Particle,” the horror film from Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions cost around $45 million. But it was so bad Paramount kept changing the release date. Last year there was some talk of a deal with Netflix and obviously it happened.

“Cloverfield Paradox” now has a 12 on Rotten Tomatoes from critics who caught it last night when it was dropped like one of those watermelons David Letterman used to discharge from his office at 30 Rock on people in the skating rink. The movie stars good people whose names shouldn’t be associated with it. I’ll leave them out.

Who knows? Maybe on Netflix there will be some views from subscribers who can see it in their monthly list. Better that than dragging it around to theaters where no one wanted it.

 

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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