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AlienSyndrome by Captain Gordon Edward (Tue 03-06-2007)
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The Syndrome strikes again! Sega's intense shooter franchise returns with an all-new strain of excitement in this action-RPG take on the classic SEGA franchise. The game puts players in control of the strong and enigmatic heroine – Earth C...
3. ALIEN 3: Giving a second chance to Ripley’s last stand Eleven years after ALIEN 3 erupted on the screen David Fincher’s bleak, nihilistic farewell for Ellen Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, is getting a shot at redemption. The ALIEN QUADRILO...
The Review!For my initial viewing I watched it in the dubbed version. I am not a fan of subtitles. The audio was nearly perfect and the dubbing was some of the best dubbing I have seen. The voices were good, some of the adults sounded kind of funny. The p...
Leonard Nimoy and John De Lancie have teamed up to laucnh their new audio book, STAR TREK: SPOCK VS Q, with a major promotional push at the Las Vegas Hilton’s Star Trek: The Experience on November 19. Alien Voices--the science fiction, multimedia, product...
Before I begin my review of the ALIEN QUADRILOGY, first let me give you a primer so you'll understand what kind of fan I am of these movies: I consider Ridley Scott's ALIEN and James Cameron's ALIENS two of my favorite films ever, and Scott's work perhaps...
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror/Sequel.Studio: 20th Century Fox.Production Company: Brandywine.Project Phase: Movies Rumored.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet, but both Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Winona Ryder (Call) have voiced their interest to retur...
What They SayYuri is totally bummed. She just started 6th grade and has been elected to capture and eliminate the aliens that are constantly invading the school...GROSS! The Review!Based off of a short run of manga, Alien Nine takes sixth graders to a who...
Machiko Noguchi, the only human ever to become a Blooded Hunter in the Predator clan, has been traversing the universe with the clan for over a year. Although blooded by the fallen leader Broken Tusk, she is still considered an outsider: human, small, and...
Two movie websites are reporting different stories about this fall's re-release of Ridley Scott's 1979 horror movie ALIEN. One site backs up yesterday's report from FilmJerk that Scott's film will now include deleted scenes not seen in the original '79 r...
What They SayOctober 1941, as the second World War threatens to destroy the civilized world, an unforeseen complication suddenly occurs. An alien invasion! Despite the sudden appearance of these extraterrestrial aggressors, the Axis and Allies continue th...
With the imminent release of 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, McFarlane Toys has a new series of action figures inspired by the film available to fans. The five figure set features three Predator characters seen in the film (Elder Predator, Celtic P...
In 1995, courtesy of Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan, Superman encountered a race of Aliens unlike anything he had ever seen before. They were relentless, ferocious fighters, almost impossible to beat, and nearly succeeded in killing even the Last Son of Kry...
McFarlane Toys has released images of their new 12-inch action figures based on characters from ALIEN VS. PREDATOR.The SCAR PREDATOR, the last remaining member of a small hunting party sent to Earth to test their mettle against a horde of Alien attackers,...
Last night two different kinds of extraterrestrials were sighted in the Long Beach, CA area and we're looking for eyewitness reports. No, there weren't any UFO landings or alien abductions (that we know of) but instead we were able to glean that 20th Cent...
What They SayThe all female crew of the transport ship Muse is on a mission in deep space. They pick up an SOS signal and discover a derelict space cruiser where all the women have died mysteriously. They take the only survivor, a young woman named Flai...
We'll have to file this one as a story spoiler, but it's just a small one: the Coming Soon team has published masks and accessories offered by Rubies Costume Company for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. The photo on the CS site shows all sort of fine E.T. swag that yo...
This October, the Alien Nine Ultimate Collection will creep into stores just in time for Halloween. This box set -- a first for collectors -- will include the best-selling DVD and all three Alien Nine graphic novels which feature stories and art by ...
Every Friday MenInBlack.com
reveals a new alien. Meet Joey, the featured creature in this
week's Alien Friday:
Earth
Name:
Joey
Zone
Restriction:
Los Angeles
Age:
He'll neve...
On display at the Master Replicas booth at this year's San Diego Comic Convention are a host of the company's new items for the next quarter including a number of replicas inspired by 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR movie. One of the most impressive...
Want to own your very own ALIEN head?Sideshow Toys is making a new collectible based on the original 1979 ALIEN monster, designed by Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, and it's probably the largest ALIEN prop replica ever made. It is a 1:1 scale creature head, ...
It’s not often that a guy sitting in a bar pulls an alien skull in bubble wrap out of his sports bag and plonks it down on the table in front of you.
But that’s exactly how I met Lloyd Pye, the investigator of a human-like skull wit...
Every Friday for the next six
weeks, the official Men In Black II
website will release a new alien from the movie to give fans a "sneak
peak" at the creatures that will be invading movie theaters this summer.
The website will showcase the
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THERE'S AN ALIEN IN MY TOILET take a page from the INVADER ZIM playbook and comparisons remain inevitable. Fortunately, despite its title, writer-artist Samuel Vera (FORBIDDEN) wrote a mildly amusing all-ages story devoid of scatological humor. Like Zim, ...
There hasn't been much news lately on Paul W.S. Anderson's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR project. We know Anderson stepped down as director on RESIDENT EVIL 2 so he could focus on the A VS. P project but that was months ago. Where does the project stand now? Is ther...
Years ago, the word “bust” had a very different meaning for comic and sci-fan fans. Y’see, there was the whole “Bad Girl” craze going on where just about every company and their brother was putting out a comic, action figure or statue of some grossly disp...
What They SaySome of life\'s lessons, tuition just can\'t buy! The beautiful Miss Mizuki works at a private college, counseling students and teachers alike. With student after student confiding in her, telling of their secret passions and erotic escapades...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ryoji HidoTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:What They SayHeroes (hee-rows) noun, plural, Earth variation: species of teenage Earthlings that come in groups of five, transform into "rangers" with color-coordinated outfits,...
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Two new collectibles will be hitting the market sometime in late 2007-early 2008 from the ALIENS VS PREDATOR series. Each of the two items are Kotobukiya Japanese Imports based off the first film but timing in release with the sequel. The alien and predat...
On August 29th, 1977, producer Harold Livingston presented a new writers status report, and noted that they had met some twenty odd writers. `We have also received a large number of submissions from various writers, either in one or two page outlines, and...
My colleague Antony at Star Trek Central reported this week a rumor that Tom Paris and B`Elanna Torres would get married 2/3 of the way through Voyager`s current season. But one of my Paramount sources says that, unless they`ve re-shot the ending of `Driv...
Caution: Spoilers ahead!The upcoming Voyager episode `Shattered,` which filmed last week at Paramount, promises to be a treat for long-time series fans. Visitors to the Paramount lot last week noticed Kazon, Vidiians and other species long gone from the s...
Screenwriting duo Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (FACE/OFF) have been hired to perform a rewrite on the sci-fi/action project ALIEN PRISON. The movie is in development at Columbia Pictures, and the original draft was by Andrew Marlowe (END OF DAYS).The pr...
The FilmJerk website is reporting that the October re-release of Ridley Scott's classic monster movie ALIEN will include some, if not all, of the picture's deleted scenes. The site's sources also say that the film's soundtrack will be remastered. As we ...
Actor Lance Henriksen, who portrayed the android Bishop in ALIENS and then Bishop's human creator in ALIEN 3, is getting another face-to-face encounter with the extraterrestrial bugs. Henriksen is the first to be cast in Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR...
The cat's finally out of the bag and we've got a release date for Fox's forthcoming ALIEN QUADRILOGY 9-disc DVD set. How's December 2 sound to you, just in time for getting it on Santa's shopping list?Here's some of the goodies that are on the set:-- vers...
The official website for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR has thrown up a second behind-the-scenes featurette, this time examining the crafting of the creatures for the film. In the short film we get to see Tom Woodruff, one of the principals at Amalgamated Dynamics, s...
If you were one of the many North American DVD owners who rushed out to purchase Fox's ALIEN QUADRILOGY boxed set but were less than thrilled with the so-called accordian style packaging, you may want to think about calling in a favor if you know anyone l...
One series that\'s gotten little press or attention with its release this week is a series that Luis has taken up to help cut down my load just a touch, and that\'s the 05/04/2004 release of BASToF Syndrome Vol. #1 from ADV Films.
In anticipation of its imminent release, Apple's trailer website has added a new minute-long clip from ALIEN VS. PREDATOR featuring a confrontation between three humans, two Predators and one smart Alien. Saying more than that would reveal the surprise, s...
Eddie Hicks over at Otaku Aniverse has an interesting interview up with Kathryn Williams regarding the Alien 9 release and what CPM was doing to prepare for the show.
Luis is up to bat this morning with a look at the 07/27/2004 release of Bastof Syndrome Vol. #3 from ADV Films. We\'re a bit light on reviews today due to some medical issues resurfacing again but as you can see from our to-watch list on the right we\'ve ...
Starlog posts a preview of the upcoming cartoon based on the 'Alien Legion' comic. Mainframe animation, the makers of the new 'Spider-Man' TV show are producers.
To the surprise of many, Ridley Scott has expanded and reinforced his comments about returning to the ALIEN franchise. Scott said last week that he was mulling ALIEN 5 as his next movie, but to many the comments came like idle jawing with journalists whil...
Titan books interviewed comic creator Carl Potts about the resurgance of interest in 'Alien Legion':
"I am working with Mainframe Entertainment at the moment, trying to get a 3D animated TV series off the ground," Potts said. "I'll also be trying to get ...
Besides the hybrid aspect, Bogdanove addressed what he felt was a weakness in the first crossover by preserving the Aliens' original size as he saw it in the films."I tried very much to blend the two styles and made a conscious effort to return the Aliens...
It's been well over a year since you've heard from me, but now I have some important announcements to make. First, I'm going to be on Coast to Coast for the first time in twenty months. My appearance will be this coming Monday, the 17th, at the us...
Mainframe Entertainment, the makers of the new CGI 'Spider-Man' animated show, have opened a zippy new website promoting the currently-in-development 'Alien Legion' show. Check out the series overview, character bios and designs, weapons and vehicle desig...
IGN FilmForce was recently tipped off that the long-in-development big-screen return of Flash Gordon had hired a new screenwriter. According to our scooper, the scribe in question is Ronald Shusett (Alien')...
Ronald Shusett, co-creator of "Alien" and producer and writer on "Total Recall," has teamed with comic book specialist Daniel Alter to option feature rights to the new title "Megacity," which Alter discovered at the recent Comic-Con convention in San Dieg...
New Regency has grabbed the rights to James Patterson's upcoming sci-fi young adult series The Dangerous Days of Daniel X. The trade reports a graphic novel will also follow the July debut of the first book in this new series. Patterson, who is known for ...
The symptoms are wide and varied. The syndrome takes over your life gradually. You may not even be aware that you have it. But there is a way to find out. Read through the list of statements below and give yourself 1 point for each one that applies to you...
Getting closer and closer to the finale, Luis has sent in a look at the 10/19/2004 release of BASToF Syndrome Vol. #5 (of 6) from ADV Films, a series that\'s finally showing just how good it could have been if they\'d turned up the intensity earlier in th...
A scooper sent us an inside up date on the rumored ALIEN 5. This is what he had to report:Went in on an casting call for CBS's NUMBERS this week, and to my surprise, Ridley Scott - exec.producer- was there.I got to shake the man's hand after my read (he w...
Varese Sarabande Records has announced its limited edition "CD Club" releases for May. The five new releases, limited to between 1000 and 3000 copies, are headlined by the first-ever release of Jerry Goldsmith's rejected score for 1988's ALIEN NATION. Gol...
McFarlane Toys has announced two new 3D Movie Posters for their collection.The first is for Ridely Scott's ALIEN. The 3-D poster includes a light-up feature that illuminates the alien egg sac with an extraterrestrial glow.The second poster is for Wes Cra...
Some comedy news with an alien genre twist has hit the web courtesy of Variety. James Gunn, writer behind the Dawn of the Dead remake & director of Slither, had a recent pitch, titled PETS, bought up by New Regency Films. Ben Stiller (under ...
Luis Cruz is working through his piles this week as well and he\'s getting caught up on some of the shows that slip through the cracks and don\'t get much notice, such as the 09/07/2004 release of Bastof Syndrome Vol. #4 from ADV Films.
It is the mark by which the faithful shall know one another ... If you hear an argument about who'd win in a battle between Superman vs. Batman, Darth Vader vs. Ming the Merciless, Dracula vs. the Wolfman, you know you are listening to dueling genre geeks...
What They SayOne player has been hospitalized, two robots have been destroyed and now Moderato has turned his back on his own creation. But the Mayor needs the game to bypass Pluto\'s locks, and Riddle has her own reasons to unearth the PX-1 file. As the ...
Universal is planning another comic adaptation, centering on the aftermath of an alien invasion. The studio has optioned Marc Guggenheim's Resurrection comic from Oni Press and has set producer Scott Stuber and Eric Gitter to produce the flick. Guggenheim...
Writer Mark Schultz cannot emphasize enough that his four-issue ALIEN VS. PREDATOR VS. TERMINATOR miniseries from Dark Horse Comics is, first and foremost, an exciting action-adventure that should appeal to fans of all three franchises. The reason for his...
By all reports, fans had a very exciting time at the Slanted Fedora convention in Philadelphia this weekend, where they had to brave a bomb threat and an influx of young Republicans waiting for the political party convention to start. Armin Shimerman, Ren...
Speaking of monsters, though Rise Above started an ambitious program of releasing the adventures of creature-battling wrestler/superhero El Santo on a flood of decent US discs last year, lately they’ve cut back to a trickle. Meanwhile, release of the US d...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Next week’s Star Trek: Voyager installment `Inside Man` serves yet another warning about the dangers of trusting Reginald Barclay’s holograms. I’m sure most people remember that we met Reginald Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Genera...
What happens when we find life outside our own planet? Discovery Channel brings viewers on a virtual mission of the future. Right now, the search for planets with "life signatures" goes on. These efforts are global, and experts tell us on camera how this ...
David Ellis, the director of FINAL DESTINATION 2, is now attached to helm a science fiction film titled CONFRONTATION. The script hasn't been finished yet, with scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway working on it.The story is about a hostile alien spacecra...
VIDEO NEWS· TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE was originally a low budget TV anthology series which, while largely forgotten today, helped pave the way for a multitude of horror, fantasy and sci-fi TV series we enjoy ...
Alien Pig Farm 3000 reminds me of a forgotten B-movie from the 1980s that you’d occasionally catch on TV on a Saturday afternoon – absurd in it premise, but shamefully enticing in its execution. Written by Todd Farmer from a story he co-w...
The film that put Gothic horror in outer space, ALIEN proved that material often derided as B-movie fodder could be handled with finesse and glossy production values, without diminishing the thrills or polishing over the horror. Dan O`Bannon`s script is f...
Alien Prison by Coming Attractions (Thu 07-03-2003)
Genre:Action/Science Fiction.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:Development Hell.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Andrew Marlowe, Mike Werb, Michael Colleary (Screenwriters).Premise:Six humans who have been held captive a...
Writing to fans on the 'Alien Legion' Yahoo! Group, Carl Potts says, "The latest issue of Starlog magazine (Oct. cover date) has an article about the new Alien Legion project from Mainframe."
Could it be that one series has actually learned from the mistakes of another? On April 15, 2001, THE X-FILES aired an episode called "Empedocles" that seemed set to create a new mythology for the Doggett-Reyes era of the series. Abandoning the alien trap...
Rick Baker, make-up designer for MEN IN BLACK 2, discussed with USA TODAY what bizarre alien creations audiences can expect when J and K return to the big screen.Creating new species for MIB2 was challenging, to say the least. Baker stated that "just tryi...
It's no surprise that one of the most eagerly anticipated video games in development is Sierra's HALF-LIFE 2. Ever since the first screenshots and video demos were published last year causing computer gamers to commence drooling, just about every wish lis...
If you need a new dose of duelling extraterrestrials, then you should be informed that Apple is hosting the exclusive internet trailer for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. We've finally gotten our first looks at the Aliens, facehuggers, Predators and the human explore...
Yahoo Movies has posted a one minute snippet from ALIEN VS. PREDATOR showing -- what else? -- an Alien and a Predator going at it...hard. The fighting prowess of both ETs is clearly shown in this teaser in a fight to the death somewhere inside the catacom...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ueda HajimeTranslated by:William FlanaganAdapted by:William FlanaganWhat They SayIn the near-future on planet Earth, a world gone mad where never-ending war is a fact of life, Kirio is the coolest kid at school. Up in the sky,...
One of the more interesting projects trapped in the pits of development hell is a movie adaptation of the childrens book PET BOY. Written and illustrated by Keith Graves, the story follows a young boy named Stanley who's more of a pet collector than a pet...
2. ALIENS: This time it’s war (for your free time)It is a safe thing to claim that James Cameron’s sequel to ALIEN, the 1986 film ALIENS, has a unique and exceptionally rare distinction in its Hollywood genes: 1) it is a sequel that can stand alone but th...
Dark Horse Comics has announced that they will publish a original companion comic story to this summer's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR film. Titled ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: THRILL OF THE HUNT, the 96-page graphic novel takes the story elements of Paul W.S. Anderson's f...
Dimension Films has hired J.D. Zeik to write a screenplay based on Carl Pott’s Alien Legion comic book series. The story follows a young man who joins a group described as `the French Foreign Legion in outer space` in order to prove himself. Zeik will ser...
That was quick of 20th Century Fox: the new teaser trailer for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR is now ready for download at Apple's website.Since it is just a teaser, there's no real footage from Paul W. S. Anderson's movie to show you yet. Instead, we've got some clo...
It looks like STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES will be provoking the same slow down in work on its opening day as THE PHANTOM MENACE did May 19, 1999.According to EMPIRE magazine, a sick-out of sorts may result while many employees take the day ...
Roland Emmerich is considering a return to the genre that made him (that would be science fiction boys and girls) by directing ALIEN PRISON. He's considering the project, written by Andrew Marlowe (AIR FORCE ONE, HOLLOW MAN) which centers on a group of hu...
After months of rumors, innuendo and vitriolic diatribes, it's been confirmed that the powers that be at Twentieth Century Fox have tapped RESIDENT EVIL and EVENT HORIZON director Paul Anderson to write and direct the years-in-development ALIENS VS. PREDA...
"I don't think you could make the first or even the second [ALIEN] movie in the studio world of 1990," PANIC ROOM and FIGHT CLUB director David Fincher tells us in the latest issue of CINESCAPE. In the exclusive interview, Fincher opened up about his late...
With a brief few words in a recent interview, Sigourney Weaver may just relight the hopes of ALIEN fans everywhere hoping to see a fifth movie in that acid-blooded space-monster series. And she even invoked the name of Ridley Scott, who directed the first...
It seems as if Ridley Scott's flirtation with helming ALIEN 5 has passed and he's looking to return to the epic type film of years gone past. According to VARIETY's Michael Fleming, Scott is beginning work on a movie about the 11th century Crusades.No scr...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER notes that Mainframe Entertainment, a Vancouver B. C. based animation firm, will produce 26 episodes ALIEN LEGION, based on the Marvel Comics' property.The comic book series was created by Carl Potts with Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cir...
When THE NEXT GENERATION entered its fourth season in 1990, it was riding high on the string of quality episodes that had finally come out of the show in year three. Thanks to Michael Piller, who joined the show in season three and soon came to head up th...
Remember those ratty videotape sets they used to sell at such fine stores as K-Mart, featuring six or seven grainy B-movies from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, recorded in EP mode? I'll bet you thought that the DVD revolution would get rid of that sort of junk...
Actress Sanaa Lathan (who can be seen playing opposite Denzel Washington in OUT OF TIME) has landed the role of Lex Kline in ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, Paul W.S. Anderson's meeting of the 20th Century Fox extraterrestrials. Lathan's character is the lead in the ...
The year is 1965, and ex-FBI agent and current private investigator Phil Housley is in a bad spot. His one-man detective agency is in dire need of clients, his ex-wife is seeking reconciliation, and his finances have hit rock bottom. It's as bad as it can...
With 20th Century Fox preparing to release ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT in theaters on October 29, the studio is drumming up some guerilla publicity by giving away signed movie posters to the sharp-eyed fans who spot them first.Director Ridley Scott has sign...
So by now you should have heard the news that 20th Century Fox has given a greenlight to ALIEN VS PREDATOR, the long-awaited meeting of two of sci-fi's biggest and baddest creatures. If you attended the San Diego Comic-Con last week you may have even spot...
It's coming up on the quarter century mark since the release of Ridley Scott's ALIEN. In 1979 audiences were introduced to H.R. Giger's unstoppable extraterrestrial, which went on to star in three (so far) sequels as well as lauch the Hollywood careers o...
What They SayThe year is 2097 and in the city of Xenon, the ultimate cyber game, where players fight as bio-mechanical cyber robots, has been created. But something\'s wrong. Somehow, the game\'s cyber space and the real world are linked. The damage th...
What They SayContains 4 DVDs (the full series) in one lovely artbox!
Narue is an adorable schoolgirl with a secret. She\'s really an alien with powers right out of a sci-fi comic! But growing up is never easy, and it doesn\'t help when you\'re from outer...
Bringing another series under his wing to conclusion, Luis has sent in his thoughts on the conclusion to the 11/30/2004 release of BASTof Syndrom Vol. #6 (of 6) from ADV Films.
It is with great pleasure that I\'m able to now post a review of Media Blasters 05/27/2003 releaes of Alien from the Darkness, the final of our backlogged hentai releases. In the space of the week the my wife and kids have been gone and visiting releative...
THE 4400 is a new science fiction series that's been given an order by USA Network. Created by Scott Peters, and with executive producers Francis Ford Coppola (APOCALYPSE NOW, FIRST WAVE), Rene Echevarria (DARK ANGEL) and Maira Suro onboard, the series be...
What They SaySet in the high-tech world of virtual gaming, the Spearhead Dream Team works diligently to stop the out of control Lemon Game now that its popularity has increased? Each online session brings more devastating destruction to the city Xenon. Th...
What They SayMayor Hadim\'s blind ambition continues to destroy Xenon. The deceased Dr. Pluto\'s PX-1 technology nears its end; events once buried in the past begin to resurface as his ghost predicts, \"Xenon will be consumed by ash and lava, and all will...
Much to the surprise of the FARSCAPE audience, Chiana, played by the young actress Gigi Edgley, joined the group on board Moya during `Durka Returns,` an episode airing mid-way through the first season. The character of Chiana is a Nebari, a gray-skinned...
Garry Shandling’s comedic sci-fi vehicle WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? failed to land in the Top Ten its opening weekend. The Columbia Pictures release, directed by Mike Nichols, earned a paltry $3-million, according to studio estimates, with an average of $1...
Every once in a while we discover something that just won’t let us alone. Whether it is a TV show, comic book or movie, there is something that becomes a necessity in us to capture that same feeling we had when we discovered it. Often, many of us tu...
Sega of America announced today that it has shipped ALIEN FRONT ONLINE, the first-ever console game to use voice-recognition, to stores.ALIEN FRONT ONLINE puts players in the role of either the earthlings defending the planet, or the aliens attacking it. ...
Anonymous scooper reports on an interview 'Matrix' costume designer Kym Barrett did in the Swedish newspaper Borås Tidning. Barrett reportedly dropped some info about 'Superman'.
"We have a bunch of chemical engineers and fabric designers working togethe...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
What They SayThe Spearhead Dream Team is getting closer to the truth as they discover Mayor Hadim\'s connection to the Lemon Game. There\'s no time to think about that because the secret police are hot on their tail! With so many questions to this excitin...
What They SayBack after a nine year hiatus, the Lemon Game is alive and well... well, more alive than a game should be. As events occurring within Lemon\'s virtual battlefield continue to spill over into reality, Mayor Hadim and Moderato begin two separat...
Sega has made a deal with 20th Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising to create a series of video games based on the ALIEN movies. The company will develop multiple next-generation and PC video games set in the ALIEN universe, includi...
Mercedes
Benz recently set up a website
promoting Men in Black II and the Mercedes Benz model that is featured
in the film. The site primarily features an online game.
The game is composed
of four missions. The first mission doesn't become ava...
Humanoids Inc., the U.S. arm of the Humanoids Group, publishers of the European graphic novels featuring the work of such European artists as Moebius, Bilal and Jodorowsky, has set up two feature projects that the company will produce.
First pic, "Metal,...
Catching up a bit more on our backlog and going with a title that certainly wasn't acceptable for our little ones to see, we spent the past couple of nights taking in Central Park Media's 07/08/2003 release of Alien Nine.
IGN FilmForce checked with its trusty
sources about the rumor that Paul Anderson ('Aliens vs. Predator') might be the director of 'The Transformers' movie. Their sources advised them that the Anderson rumor is completely false. More...
Bloody Disgusting got a report from a scooper regarding ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2. Here is the basic gist:- None of the cast from ALIEN VS PREDATOR will be returning.- Movie will be set in a different time.- Studio wants Sigourney Weaver to play a part.- Weave...
Michael C. Luckman is an interesting character. Not only does he write books, but he also organizes and promotes concerts and events connected with UFOs. Luckman is founder of the Cosmic Majority and taught the nation's first college-level course on rock ...
There's a new ALIEN VS. PREDATOR internet exclusive trailer.It's got more Aliens.More Predators.More humans caught in the crossfire.More explosions, more chestbursters, more gunfire, more carnage. And something new: heavy metal rock music.Click to begin y...
Shipping tomorrow to comic book and specialty shops nationwide is Palisades Toys ALIEN DIRECTOR'S CUT mini-bust, the latest product in the company's line of ALIEN products. Palisades decided that with the release of Ridley Scott's ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR'S CU...
An anonymous scooper wrote in with a tip we looked into, and we got it confirmed: screenwriter Shane Salerno (SHAFT, ARMAGEDDON) will receive co-writer credit on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. Previously we believed that the film's director, Paul W.S. Anderson, was ...
There's another new trailer for Fox's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR available for download on Apple's website, and it's even better than the one that hit the 'net last week. This new preview presents more of the film's set-up: humans find mysterious pyramid buried u...
Justin Haythe's script for the kidnap drama THE CLEARING attracted stellar talent like Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, and Helen Mirren, so you'd expect him to know a good turn of dramatic phrase. Fox 2000 certainly expects such -- they've brought him on to...
Deep under the ice shelf in Antarctica, two different groups of extraterrestrials are waging a war -- and we're caught in the middle. ALIEN VS. PREDATOR is the long-awaited rumble in the interstellar jungle that fans of these two franchises have been wait...
We've been hearing rumors on the grape vine that it's going to be a race to finish work on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR in order for the film to meet its release date -- which is just three short days away from today. While it's not completely unusual (albeit stres...
Have you ever wondered what Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING would be like to watch if the filmmakers only had 30 seconds -- and a troupe of bunnies -- to tell the story? Chances are probably not a lot of people can say yes, but rest assured that Jennifer Sh...
McFarlane Toys has been granted the license to create a series of action figures based on Fox's upcoming extraterrestrial ultimate fighting contest, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. McFarlane has already produced a line of ALIEN and PREDATOR figures that are out in st...
SteveVP Today we will be chatting with Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram, Lani John Tupu, three of the stars from the hit Sci-Fi Channel series FARSCAPE. Ms Edgley portrays Chiana in the show, an impetuous young thief. Mr Pygram has the role of Scorpius, a sadist...
In space, no one can hear you scream. Audiences, however, have been screaming in shock and terror at Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien for nearly thirty years. Today NECAonline revisits the original sci-fi nightmare as we debut composite...
It`s been something of a slow week for Star Trek news, since Star Trek: Voyager is racing toward it`s holiday break and the show`s in reruns through December. But that doesn`t mean the actors aren`t busy coming out with new movies, making plans for next y...
ROSWELL is a television series fighting for survival—not surprising given its fairly lackluster ratings throughout its first season. Unlike other shows in similar situations, however, this one actually has its network, the WB, serving as the one doing the...
Everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief, not only because Voyager was on the air this week in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando, Portland and Baltimore, but because people in those cities will still have many months of ...
Before I launch into a special Halloween edition of COMICSCAPE, featuring an interview with George A. Romero about the new TOE TAGS series for DC, allow me to introduce a new name to the Comics Section of CINESCAPE: Kurt Amacker is a graduate of Loyola Un...
Emails have been pouring in since last week's column went up detailing my frustrations over long-running problems with my satellite TV receiver. Though a few of you showed a shocking lack of sympathy by choosing to berate me for complaining about somethin...
What They SayYou don\'t need to be crazy to watch this, but it sure helps.
Beautiful Girls! Naughty Aliens! Dead Fish! When evil aliens kill Poemi Watanabe\'s parents, she doesn\'t get mad, she gets even... but first she moves in with the seven crazy Aa...
What They SayThe very first anime ever produced, Osamu Tezuka\'s (KIMBA, THE WHITE LION / HI NO TORI / METROPOLIS) original 1963 - 1964 ASTRO BOY delighted children around the world with its touching stories and compelling characters. In the U.S., many wi...
What They SayIt\'s 2199 and radiation from constant Gamilon bombing threatens to destroy life on Earth. Space Cruiser Argo races against time to find the planet
Iscandar and bring back Cosmo-DNA, which can reverse the contamination
The Argo engages in s...
PERFECT BLUE, which reaches U.S. video shelves this week while continuing circulation in art house theatres, has been subject to a staggering range of critiques and interpretations in recent months. According to some pundits it`s no more than schlock expl...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Makoto YukimuraTranslated by:Yuki NakamuraAdapted by:What They SayAn attack on the U.S. in orbital space may trigger a series of events that will bring the world to the brink of another war--with space as the battleground. The...
DARK ANGEL by Frederick C. Szebin (Mon 09-18-2000)
Fox has been overly kind to the hard hitters in Hollywood these days, letting Chris Carter darken up their schedule, allowing Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich to recreate The Fugitive with an alien, when a big green bad boy had done it years ago, and now t...
The notion of an ALIEN VS. PREDATOR team-up has long thrilled fans, and it has come to fruition in a variety of mediumsthough the film version has yet to materialize (Paul W.S. Anderson is reportedly at work on a script for such a film right now, however)...
`Into the Fire` (#301) - Written by Brad Wright. Directed by Martin WoodPart 2 of Season 2`s `Out of Mind.` In this exciting season opener, the SG-1 team are being held prisoner by their old Goa’uld foe Hathor (Susanne Braun), who threatens to insert a Go...
Central Park Media has been issuing first episodes of their anime titles in their inexpensive ANIME TEST DRIVE line for some time, each of which contains a discount coupon for the full editions of each title. ADV Films tries to up the ante by doing someth...
I've been rambling on nostalgically a lot about drive-ins this summer, but this weekend I'll be attending a convention that is actually doing something about it. Flash back Weekend's Horro'rama Drive-In will attempt to recreate the drive-in experience wit...
It’s nearly the end of January (already!) and despite the Bears being in the Superbowl this year, this week my attention is fixed on Friday, when once again I’ll be attending the annual B-fest 24-hour B-movie marathon. Some folks claim to l...
Though comic-book heroes like Captain Marvel, Batman and Captain America all were featured in movie serials within a few years of their print debut, National Periodical Publications instead sold screen rights to their moct valuable creation Superman ...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
Welcome to the new site everyone for the Weekly Book Buzz’s first new edition on mania.com. I won’t waste your time with comments on the new design or site features because frankly, we’ve got too much to do with so many releases comin...
NYC and Themyscira are both recovering from the effects of the war with Imperiex and Brainiac 13. Alien refugees are everywhere, and the species-ism is getting ugly as humans revert to type. But they're not the only ones turning into animals, as Circe and...
An international trailer for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR has surfaced on the website for the English tabloid The Sun. The trailer contains about 95% of the same footage seen in the domestic AvsP trailer but there is some new material in there, plus the internation...
On the DVD commentrak to BIOHAZARD, writer and director Steve Latshaw says of his longtime associate, "There’s always something a bit odd about a Fred Olen Ray film." He’s right. In none of the over six dozen films he’s directed has Ray filmed a single sc...
Preparing himself to star in ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, actor Lance Henriksen spoke with Fangoria about the upcoming project. Henriksen, who first faced one-half of the extraterrestrial foes in James Cameron's ALIENS, let go a slight story spoiler that fans have...
"The Magic 8-Ball" (who was 100% right about when we'd see the teaser trailer for RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE) knocked on our door late last night to tell us another scoop. Are you ready to see your first look at Paul Anderson's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR next mont...
If you've ever wanted to move your own Alien Queen in chess, SOTA Toys is giving you the chance shortly. The company is preparing to release a high end chess set inspired by the 20th Century Fox film that features the two species of space creatures in the...
What They SayIn an effort to learn more about the aliens that have been plaguing the planet for years, Dr. Noguchi and his assistants, Maki Agata and Takuto Kenishiro, examine the remains of a scavenged alien. However, in the process of reviving the monst...
Oh, this bit of news cheered me up this morning. Up until now all I've been coming across is comedy film news. Putting news about upcoming comedies is a bit of a stretch on Mania. Sure, some news on comedies could be published now and then if th...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz and Johnny Lewis have all signed on to play roles in 20th Century Fox's upcoming film ALIEN VS PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.Epps will play Kendra, a young girl who must protect her little...
In the year 2315, on a distant moon in a remote corner of the galaxy, the mercenary armies of competing corporations battle for the rare resource rubium. This month the battle will be fought in family rooms across North America with the release of Nexus O...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSThe latest limited edition soundtrack release from Perseverance Records (www.perseverancerecords.com) is the premiere 25th Anniversary CD release of Denny Zeitlin's remarkable score for Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of INVASION O...
It seems that McFarlane Toys has another hit on their hands. After releasing the first assortment of action figures based on 20th Century Fox's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR last month, the company has announced plans for a second wave of figures.Six new figures wil...
By no means is it a close to a deal, but actress Sigourney Weaver is suggesting, again, that there is something possibly brewing for a fifth ALIEN film.According to the BBC, while appearing on a Channel 4 documentary called ALIEN EVOLUTION, the actress al...
The `90s was the decade that told us men and women have difficulties in relationships because they`re different from each other. Hardly a new concept, but it received a certain intellectual cache thanks to the popular works of Ph.D.`s like Deborah Tannen ...
Today's Dark Horizons has a scoop that is originally from BBC1, and it's good news to those who've been hoping something can be done to salvage the ALIEN film franchise. According to Horizons source, ALIENS writer/director James Cameron is still contempla...
In our last two feature installments, we presented a chat with artist Jon Bogdanove focusing on the new Superman/Aliens match-up, SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR, a sprawling cosmic epic co-starring Darkseid and the New Gods. This mini-series, courtesy of comi...
In news that will shock nearly everyone who hears it, Ridley Scott has revealed that he's contemplating a return to the ALIEN series, as director of the languishing ALIEN 5."I will decide in the next five weeks," said Scott while promoting this Friday's n...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER notes that SPINAL TAP, among other films, has been added to the National Film Registry, a 350-film archive of features deemed worthy of special notice and preservation at the Library of Congress. Also inducted was Ridley Scott's cla...
The FilmJerk website has followed up on our ALIEN VS. PREDATOR article posted earlier today and confirmed that the action does take place in Antartica and that the film's main character is named Lex. Furthermore, FilmJerk has posted detailed character des...
An industry source has notified Coming Attractions at Cinescape that 20th Century Fox will attach a trailer for the re-release of Ridley Scott's ALIEN with THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. LXG, as the latter film has been referred to in its promoti...
Star Sigourney Weaver spoke to Cinema Confidential and gave the latest word about a possible ALIEN 5 flick. The last news heard was that Weaver and director Ridley Scott had met and talked about the idea, and it seems not a lot has changed. What is new ...