There’s a lot of Cloverfield all over the internet this week, probably ramping up for the April 22nd DVD release.

First off, two alternate endings popped up on YouTube, the same two endings that will most likely grace the DVD. Alternate Ending one seems needlessly brief, though watching happy Odette Yustman run around the Coney Island subway station is worth watching, just to see such beauty in elated motion.

The second alternate ending is also a slight variation on the original closer, this one even more similar to the one on screen: These endings look to me made in editing, which still gives us hope that there will be a more substantial alternate ending on the DVD. We know from sources here in New York that the final call sheet for the last day of filming included an “alternate” scene under the bridge in Central Park, but we haven’t seen anything “alternate” quite yet.In the world of the Cloverfield viral Alternate Reality Game, a new picture showed up on 1-18-08.com. It’s a picture of Teddy Hanssen, one of the characters from the internet ARG that did not appear in the film.

We last heard about Teddy when his long-distance girlfriend state-side blogged about her boyfriend ignoring her. Jamie Lascano, a character only seen passed out on a couch in the movie, was fantastically dumb, turning a blind eye to Teddy’s pleas for help after he was kidnapped by the Tagruato company, the same company that appeared in other Cloverfield virals when they manufactured Slusho with a mysterious deep-sea based-ingredient and were later attacked by Clover in the ocean.

Long story short, on the back of the Teddy photograph is a weird symbol and number, the same symbol can be found on the DVD packaging for Cloverfield:

This has added to speculation that Abrams and Co are already thinking Cloverfield sequel, even though the movie proved to be incapable of carrying itself past the first weekend ($40 million first weekend, $80 million US now, months later).

Cloverfield sees DVD release soon and theatrical release currently in Japan, but we can’t imagine that a sequel is being prepped so soon. It didn’t make Transformers money or anything.

Yesterday, we spent most of the day on a bus from Boston to New York and ended up talking to a fellow passenger about the magic of Cloverfield and how it has been echoed in the BO receipts.

It came out of the gates with a bang, because those interested saw it directly. Immediately after we came out of the theater, we bought tickets to see it a second time in the evening. Which we did.

The longer we were out of the darkness of the theater, the less the movie appealed to us, and you better believe we’re going to be buying the There Will Be Blood DVD sooner than springing for Cloverfield.

It’s a monster movie that deserved to be watched in the theater, so it will be interesting to see if DVD sales kickoff a second leg of the ARG and – should profits somehow be staggering – a quick sequel.

With Paramount moving Abrams’ Star Trek to next year, who is to say JJ can’t pop off another monster movie while editing?