The 2008 Saturn Awards were handed out this Tuesday night. The Saturns are where you turn for the awarding of genre movies and television, the stuff usually overlooked by Oscar or the Emmys in favor of boring dramas starring Keira Knightley. I can’t blame them, Keira Knightley is an attention getter.

This year the Saturn’s selected Cloverfield as the year’s best Science Fiction movie. I’d have gone I Am Legend, but at least that film got a little love with a win for Will Smith as best Actor. Here’s the complete list of this years Saturn Award winners:
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Wow, it looks like that rumored cover art for the release of Cloverfield on DVD was the real deal. Tonight the folks at Paramount Home Entertainment emailed me all the details on the upcoming release, including an official image of what it will look like. That's it there to your right. Click to embiggen.

Meanwhile, when the DVD hits shelves, it'll come in five different versions. There will be a standard version, and then four other versions with exclusives that will vary depending on where you buy it. Here's a breakdown of the different exclusives you'll find on the DVD at each retailer:
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Cloverfield is coming to DVD on April 22nd, and when it hits shelves it’ll hit with two brand new, alternate endings. Will the monster choke to death on HUD? Will at least one of the main characters survive? Find out now, because we have both alternate endings for you below:
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Big news from the production of Transformers 2. Michael Bay is planning to change things up a bit for the second movie, by adding an organic element into the mix.

Bay is apparently a big fan of JJ Abrams’ Cloverfield, and in a new interview with the Sun Herald Times Daily he revealed that he’s talked to Abrams about using the Cloverfield monster in his upcoming Transformers sequel. Bay says, “we can’t do the same thing over and over again. We’ve done the Decepticons, now it’s time for these characters to face an entirely new threat. When you make a sequel everything has to be bigger, better, more spectacular, and more unexpected. People loved Cloverfield, and I can’t think of any better way to make our sequel even bigger than by combining these two franchises together.”

The catch here is of course, that they’ll actually have to show us the monster if Optimus Prime and the gang are going to fight it. In Cloverfield the monster is rarely seen and half-hidden for most of the movie. You never really get a good look at it. Or at least that should be the catch. Bay goes on to admit that the monster may not be the only thing they borrow from Cloverfield. He continues, “In the first movie we told the story from Sam’s perspective, but this time we want to take it even further and try some of what Abrams’ did with Cloverfield on our movie. We’ve already fitted Shia with a specially mounted camera which he’ll wear during filming. Rather than simply telling the story from his perspective, this time we’re actually going to shoot the thing from his perspective as well.” Shaky cam, meet Transformers. Transformers meet shaky cam.

The picture to your right has been floating around the net this week. It first popped up over at CanMag, where they claim this is the box art for the upcomign DVD release of Cloverfield.

It definitely fits with the movie's mysterious, secret government files tone. It does not however, fit in with any of the marketing used for the film, which seemed to center around using that same Statue of Liberty image over and over and over and over again until we were all sick to death of it. It'd be surprising if they left it off the movie's DVD packaging now.

Maybe this will be the cover art for some sort of alternative DVD? That might make sense. Use the Statue of Liberty poster artwork for a bare bones edition, and save this for an SE. It doesn't actually say Special Edition on it, but it does look like that kind of cover.