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Alien 5
by Coming Attractions (Thu 07-21-2005)

... Jeunet's Alien Resurrection brought back many of the familiar trademarks of previous Alien films -- dark, haunted sets; a diverse ensemble of actors facing Nature's ultimate killing machine; the avatice to control a force that cannot be controlled by ...

Alien vs. Predator (Fri 08-27-2004)

...ed on the Aliens vs. Predator comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.Premise:Venturing into the Antarctics wastes, an industrial entrepreneur and his team of soldiers and scientists discover a buried structure under the ice. Inside they ...

New ALIEN or no ALIEN?
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 05-28-2003)

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...


ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: WAR
by Dan Cziraky (Tue 01-04-2000)

...nting the Alien drones than most, yet is continually treated like a novice. Then, after losing an unfair contest to the jealous Shorty that keeps her out of the next hunt, she learns the chilling truth: humans are on the Predators` list of prey on the ...

On the hunt for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR figures
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 08-10-2004)

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...

The ALIEN QUADRILOGY comes out next month!
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 11-03-2003)

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 ALIEN head of the class
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 04-07-2004)

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, ...


ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Abbie Bernstein (Mon 08-16-2004)

...ience for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR.ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, or AVP as it's known for short, brings together the title creatures from the four-movie ALIEN series and the two-film PREDATOR mythos, which have previously been blended in novels, comic books and a vide...

Henriksen ringside for ALIEN VS PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 09-29-2003)

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...

COMIC-CON: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR dominates Master Replicas
by Patrick Sauriol with Den Shewman (Thu 07-22-2004)

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...

Re-release of ALIEN to include deleted scenes
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 05-27-2003)

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 ...


ALIEN in 30 seconds (as performed by bunnies)
by Patrick Sauriol (Sat 07-10-2004)

... on Angry Alien, a website that has been creating spoofs of popular genre films using Flash. The movie parodies that the Angry Alien team have been creating are not only extremely funny but also extremelyu faithful, right down to recreating the same an...

Alien Apokolips Now, Part 1
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Wed 04-03-2002)

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...

SCOOP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR story details?
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 06-16-2003)

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...

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: Let's get ready to rumble!
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 08-05-2004)

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...


Dark Horse Comics to release ALIEN VS. PREDATOR sequel
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 06-10-2004)

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...

EXCLUSIVE: ALIEN vs PREDATOR on the director's cut
by Patrick Sauriol (Sat 09-20-2003)

"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...

Alien Pig Farm 3000 #1
by Kurt Amacker (Mon 05-07-2007)

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...

"Alien" Skull Baffles Scientists on National Geographic TV
by Robin Crookshank Hilton (Sat 11-18-2006)

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...


Round two of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 08-12-2004)

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...

Scott actually considering ALIEN 5
by Christopher Allan Smith (Wed 01-23-2002)

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...

Revisiting Goldsmith's ALIEN NATION
by Randall Larson (Tue 05-17-2005)

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...

Take Off for ALIEN PLANET
by News Editor (Wed 05-04-2005)

...hat could alien life really look like? Alien Planet dramatizes an exciting and possible answer. The show takes place on Darwin IV, a fictional planet 6.5 light-years from Earth, with two suns and 60 percent gravity. Having identified Darwin as a worl...


An ALIEN for your shelf
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 02-24-2004)

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...

FACE/OFF scribes sentenced to ALIEN PRISON
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 07-03-2003)

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...

MOVIE MANIACS 6
by Scott Collura (Thu 06-26-2003)

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)...

THERE'S AN ALIEN IN MY TOILET #1
by KURT AMACKER (Fri 11-18-2005)

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, ...


Scott resurrects ALIEN 5?
by Christopher Allan Smith (Wed 01-16-2002)

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...

Cameron eyeing ALIEN 5?
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 07-07-2003)

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...

Alien Prison
by Coming Attractions (Thu 07-03-2003)

...d upon by aliens hatch a plan to escape and warn humanity that an extraterrestrial invasion is coming.Release Date:Unknown.Comments:None.Scoop Feedback:March 21, 2002... Today's Variety reports that Independence Day helmer Roland Emmerich has got alien...

New ALIEN, PREDATOR ArtFX Statues
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Tue 09-11-2007)

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...


Fincher recalls his painful ALIEN movie
by Christopher Allan Smith, Michael Tunison (Fri 04-12-2002)

"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...

ALIEN fans to get Halloween treat?
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 04-21-2003)

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...

12-inch ALIEN VS. PREDATOR Figures
by News Editor (Mon 10-17-2005)

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,...

Henriksen reveals secret about ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 11-13-2003)

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...


SCOOP: ALIEN PET BOY resurrected?
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 01-10-2005)

...hree-eyed alien boy named Jopnar as his pet, forcing the human child to learn what it's like to be treated without respect for one's pets.ALIEN PET BOY (as the movie was titled) was first optioned by Universal Pictures in the late 1990s and scheduled t...

SCOOP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR sighting in Long Beach
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 06-29-2004)

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...

Sighting an ALIEN VS. PREDATOR spoiler
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 03-10-2004)

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...

It's official: Anderson to write/direct ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Christopher Allan Smith (Mon 07-15-2002)

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...


The latest on ALIEN 5
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 03-14-2003)

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 ...

Universal Options Alien Invasion in RESURRECTION
by Jarrod Sarafin (Mon 04-28-2008)

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...

EXCLUSIVE: ALIEN trailer attached with LXG
by Patrick Sauriol (Sun 05-11-2003)

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...

This alien invasion will be televised
by Patrick Sauriol (Sat 04-10-2004)

...ll of the alien creatures from the first HALF-LIFE are back in the sequel plus plenty of other forms of nasty life, and the game's scope has been greatly expanded.Here's the crummy part: no one's sure when HALF-LIFE 2 will finally reach stores. There's...


Sega Unearths ALIEN Game (Mon 12-11-2006)

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...

New ALIEN VS. PREDATOR trailer
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 07-09-2004)

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...

Some ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2 News
by Karl Schneider (Fri 06-02-2006)

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...

3D Movie Posters: ELM STREET and ALIEN
by News Editor (Tue 08-22-2006)

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...


Alien Syndrome
by Captain Gordon Edward (Tue 03-06-2007)

...d bizarre alien planets. Players can choose from a wide selection of character specialties and skills to hone their character, then earn armour and new melee and ranged weaponry as well as new skills as she hunts down the alien menace. Platform: P...

More ALIEN VS. PREDATOR carnage to see
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 06-16-2004)

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...

New VOYAGE is "ALIEN underwater"
by Den Shewman (Fri 06-25-2004)

...if we put ALIEN underwater." Jashni and Burns run Synthesis Entertainment, which is working with Sheila Allen (Irwin's widow) to bring the master disaster maker's film and TV properties back to the big and little screens. Besides VOYAGE, they're also w...

Regency Likes Gunn's Alien PETS
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Fri 09-21-2007)

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 ...


Alien Rock
by M. Steven Felty (Sat 12-03-2005)

... 1971. In Alien Rock, Luckman draws on personal interviews and second-hand stories from rock stars and some of their friends to conclude that there is a "musically driven cosmic connection." One interesting story is told by Taharqa and Tunde-ra Aleem, ...

Another heartfelt ALIEN VS. PREDATOR moment
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 06-11-2004)

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...

Marvel's ALIEN LEGION gets animated
by Mike Whybark (Fri 11-22-2002)

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...

New Regency Battling Alien Outlaws in DANIEL X
by Jarrod Sarafin (Fri 05-02-2008)

...e battles alien outlaws who threaten life on Earth.


Scott passes on ALIEN 5, chooses Crusades?
by Christopher Allan Smith (Mon 03-04-2002)

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...

Alien Apokolips Now, Part 2
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Sat 04-06-2002)

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...

Epps, Ortiz and Lewis join ALIEN VS PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
by Karl Schneider (Thu 10-05-2006)

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...

UPDATE!: More ALIEN VS. PREDATOR news!
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 06-16-2003)

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...


Second wave of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR coming
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 08-31-2004)

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...

ALIEN 5 is Fine by Scott
by News Edtor (Thu 07-21-2005)

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...

MIB2's alien invasion
by Jennifer H. Tomooka (Wed 03-13-2002)

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...

SECOND UPDATE: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR vs. internet trailer
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 03-09-2004)

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...


It's here: the ALIEN VS. PREDATOR trailer
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 10-30-2003)

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...

ALIEN (1979)
by Steve Biodrowski (Thu 06-07-2001)

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...

Weaver Talks ALIEN 5
by Frank Kurtz (Tue 10-16-2001)

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...

Emmerich may be sent to ALIEN PRISON
by Christopher Allan Smith (Thu 03-21-2002)

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...


FINAL DESTINATION 2 director has alien CONFRONTATION
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 07-10-2003)

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...

ALIEN FRONT ONLINE ships
by James Stevenson (Tue 08-07-2001)

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. ...

ALIEN VS PREDATOR vs rumors
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 07-22-2003)

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...

SCOOP: No premiere for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 08-10-2004)

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...


CONTEST: Win an ALIEN VS. PREDATOR DVD prize pack!
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 01-26-2005)

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...

SCOOP: Salerno's a scribe on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 02-13-2004)

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 ...

Going on a bug hunt for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 04-07-2004)

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...

McFarlane to unveil ALIEN VS. PREDATOR action figures
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 02-05-2004)

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...


Heroine found to face ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 10-24-2003)

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 ...

Can you spot the signed ALIEN posters?
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 10-07-2003)

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...

UPDATE: The ultimate ALIEN QUADRILOGY boxed set
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 02-03-2004)

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...

Adrian Paul: Talking TRACKER Part Two
by Abbie Bernstein (Wed 10-17-2001)

...?'"Fellow aliens on the show are less of a mystery to Cole. Paul delineates the basic species for earthbound viewers: "We have six alien planets [in] the Migar alliance. One is Cirron, where [Cole] comes from. [Cirronians are] a higher species of being...


Welcome to Mania’s Toy Maniac Column
by Robert T. Trate (Thu 06-12-2008)

...r’s Alien Resurrection line featuring: Ripley, Call, Warrior Alien (see main picture) and Battled Scarred Alien, Newborn Alien and Aqua Alien. The line had poor articulation and a paint job that was sub par. The figures were far superior to ...

THE SILENT INVASION: SECRET MESSAGES #1-2
by Andy Hershberger (Sat 11-10-2001)

...may be an alien angle, for Mr. Finster believes he was abducted. Rather than turn in Finster and collect, he decides to go turncoat and takes up an offer from the gentleman to find out who's looking for him and why. Meanwhile, a mysterious message is l...

4400 alien abductees return home next year
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 12-04-2003)

...ducted by aliens. The returnees appear to not have aged a single day even though some of them have been reported missing for years if not decades. Compounding the mystery further, not one abductee has one memory of what happened to them when they were ...

New Board Game Simulates Future Combat On Alien Moon
by News Editor (Fri 07-01-2005)

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...


Remembering Jerry
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 07-29-2004)

...y Scott's ALIEN, replacing some cues Goldsmith had written for that groundbreaking sci-fi/horror film). The FREUD score was a remarkable motific composition, rife with shifting moods and stark tonalities, effectively creating a sound pattern for psycho...

CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIES: IN THE YEAR 2889 / THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE / TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE
by Tony Whitt (Fri 08-08-2003)

...a fascist alien race's food animals runs into trouble when Derek, the unacknowledged son of the Glorious Leader, rebels. Seems he's been reading (horrors!), and the reading has convinced him that their way of life is wrong. Alien boy meets Earth girl, ...

In cyberspace no one can hear you scream
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 10-28-2003)

For ALIEN fans who've been anxiously anticipating seeing Ridley Scott's classic monster movie return to the silver screen, tomorrow is their big day. With two days left until the scariest night of the year, 20th Century Fox will release ALIEN: THE DIRECTO...

Is it checkmate or chestburster-mate?
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 08-12-2004)

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...


ALIEN, SPINAL TAP join National Film Registry
by Mike Whybark (Wed 12-18-2002)

... chiller, ALIEN.The sci fi thriller and Rob Reiner's mock-rockumentary joins the company of ENDLESS SUMMER, BOYZ N THE HOOD, and 23 other films.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION SEASON FOUR
by SCOTT COLLURA (Sun 09-29-2002)

... a bratty alien teenager.The second [IMG3R]disc begins with "Remember Me," a rare Beverly Crusher episode that finds the good doctor all alone on the Enterprise after the other crewmembers begin to disappear one by one. It's a fun premise that also lea...

WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?
by Steve Biodrowski (Mon 02-28-2000)

... plays an alien whose planet wants to take over Earth in the most covert way possible: by breeding with its women, fathering children whose population will grow and eventually outnumber humans. To achieve this goal, Shandling`s character must learn hum...

Superman Vs. Aliens...Round One!
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Mon 04-08-2002)

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...


David Duchovny: The Ex-FILES Man
by ANTHONY C. FERRANTE (Thu 06-21-2001)

You'd think that getting slimed by rapidly evolving alien creatures would make a performer a bit apprehensive. Well, that's just not the case for David Duchovny. The actor who has made a name for himself investigating aliens for the past eight years on TV...

Get Over Those Terrible Gifts
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 12-24-2007)

...s race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY–have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for decades. With Time&r...

Final Year for FINAL CONFLICT
by SCOTT COLLURA (Tue 11-13-2001)

...enevolent alien beings on Earth. Gertz, who's been with the show since its debut in 1997, believes that the Roddenberry connection is one of the reasons why EARTH has changed so much since its premiere."When the show [debuted], it was the first J...

23.5 Degrees: Affirmative Alienation
by Stella Maris (Sat 06-14-2008)

I'm definitely experiencing the urge to pursue an Alien encounter these days. Not that I believe that Aliens actually exist, mind you, but tracking them down is infinitely more pleasurable than investigating secret societies or digging up dead saints' ske...


TAKEN
by Chris Wyatt (Mon 12-09-2002)

...ned in an alien conspiracy. The Crawfords are involved because one of their number is on an army base in Roswell in 1947 when the crash happens. The Keys are involved because one of their number witnesses foo fighters while flying runs in World War II....

Got (Torch)wood?
by Matt Kamen (Wed 10-25-2006)

...mation of alien artifacts on Earth. Well, by ‘Earth’, it’s taken they mean ‘Cardiff’ but hopefully the show will venture further afield after a while. The first episode introduces Constable Gwen Cooper, very much the ...

"Godzilla: Final Wars"
by John Sinnott (Thu 11-23-2006)

... until an alien space ship captures all of the monsters and saves the Earth.  These aliens (the Xians, in a nod to the old Planet X) claim that they want to be our friends, but in reality they just want to eat humans.  They are able to con...

Where’s My Dance with Dragons?
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 10-29-2007)

...ggressive alien empire known as the Covenant.  What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as ...


Mania talks with "Terra" director Aristomenis Tsirbas
by Pat Ferarra (Fri 03-30-2007)

...entional alien invasion premise but also garnered a few awards in the festival circuit including the Director’s Choice Award at the 2004 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and the Audience Award for Favorite Animation in 2003’s Palm Sp...

TRACKER - "Pilot"
by Abbie Bernstein (Sun 10-21-2001)

In an age when all kinds of things are going very wrong in the world, one silver lining for science-fiction/fantasy fans is the variety of fare available. There was an era, not so long ago, when anyone thirsting for an alien fish-out-of-water story had on...

Punktown and Good Omens are Back to Mix Things UP
by Pat Ferrara (Tue 12-05-2006)

...oxing an alien empire which has taken a number of human prisoners to gather information prior to an invasion; stopping a plan by not-so-good Samaritans who are pretending to cure a planetary plague - which they introduced to the planet - with a &qu...

Paving the way for a Transformers 4th of July
by Pat Ferarra (Tue 03-27-2007)

...R and the ALIEN series, Foster describes in detail the initial confrontation between man and machine as the Decepticons and Autobots vie for control of the Allspark. July can’t come soon enough.   Other books to check out: The Name...


Doctor Who - The Complete First Season
by John Sinnott (Fri 11-17-2006)

...he was an alien) why not have him die and then regenerate his entire body in the form of a new actor. This turned out to be not only a good gimmick to keep the show going, but also made the main character more interesting and mysterious. As the show we...

Broken bow, fixed TREK
by Mark A. Altman (Wed 09-26-2001)

...Having an alien onboard the Enterprise, other than a Vulcan, for humanity's first flight to the stars almost seems superfluous and may be one of the few missteps in staffing this starship (the classic TREK was great without anyone in rubber masks, unle...

Babe of Mars
by Pamela Harland (Wed 08-15-2001)

...aying the alien Sil and taking it all off in 1995's SPECIES. She admits to eating anything and everything she wants guilt free -- and she thinks skinny people are unattractive."I modeled for a lot of years and I lived around that [kind of behavior]," e...

Space Shaman
by Anna L. Kaplan (Tue 09-18-2001)

...ertise in alien medicine."It's going very well, I think," Billingsley says. "It's fairly early in the process yet, so it's still said with fingers crossed. [After] 15 years, 17 years doing theater, as much as I love doing theater, it's nice to have som...


Stardate 07.09.01: The Miniseries of AVALON
by Michelle Erica Green (Mon 07-09-2001)

... stunning alien hybrid that brutally murders erotic conquests who fail to satisfy her. ALMOST AN ANGEL on HBO at 7:15 p.m. has Paul Hogan playing a dead robber working for God (Charlton Heston). BATTLEFIELD EARTH follows on HBO with John Travolta as an...

Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm
by Tony Whitt (Sat 06-23-2001)

When an alien probe is shot down over Russia, it ejects a lifepod containing a living occupant, a lifepod impenetrable by X-rays, CAT scans, or any traditional forms of scanning technology. Project Proteus, the miniaturization team whose work prevented a ...

November 11 November 17: NOW Gets it Wrong
by Sonia Mansfield (Mon 11-11-2002)

...tomic era alien world to retrieve a communicator Reed left behind on a previous visit and they're captured and held as spies in tonight's all-new ENTERPRISE (UPN, 8 p.m.). Hey, that sounds like this week's FASTLANE.The guys Helena (Ashley Scott)...

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
by Carl Cortez (Wed 07-11-2001)

...ion of an alien planet in FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN © 2001 Square Pictures The visuals are stunning a tour-de-force that, while echoing STARSHIP TROOPERS and ALIENS at times, still manages to find a unique style all its own. I particular...


A CHRONICLE of oddities
by J. Rentilly (Fri 07-13-2001)

...nd former alien abductee Grace Antonelli (MELROSE PLACE's Rena Sofer), rebellious young newsie Tucker Burns (JACK & JILL's Chad Willet), streetwise photographer Wes Freewald (THE HOOP LIFE's Reno Wilson), and tough-as-nails editor Donald Stern (Coen Br...

Director's director's cut for BLADE RUNNER DVD
by Christopher Allan Smith (Thu 01-17-2002)

 It looks like genre icon Ridley Scott (HANNIBAL, ALIEN) is returning to perhaps his greatest triumph, BLADE RUNNER, and re-editing it into a final director's cut for the special edition DVD release later this year. "What we're doing is re-mixing dig...

Robert J Sawyer Chats with CINESCAPE - Part Two
by Chris Wyatt (Fri 07-19-2002)

...e ILLEGAL ALIEN which is part first contact story, part detective fiction and part courtroom drama. Robert J Sawyer, author of HOMINIDS © 2002 Robert J Sawyer "I would love to do a sequel to ILLEGAL ALIEN, but ironically I can't because of ...

Resistance is Futile!
by James Stevenson (Wed 08-07-2002)

...around an alien invasion of Earth. The aliens have begun to turn humans into attack drones, and are planning to harvest all of the non-radioactive carbon from the Earth. Your character, Riley Vaughan, must take on the alien invasion armed with an imagi...


Stardate 0009.04: Felix Culpa Season
by Michelle Erica Green (Mon 09-04-2000)

...say those aliens would return, and it`s just the sort of cheap nastiness Voyager has gone for in the past. The Paris-Torres baby is apparently not just a rumor, for TrekWeb (which has a Source Who Is Almost Always Right) posted a spoiler for an episode...

Agent K Returns
by SCOTT COLLURA (Wed 07-10-2002)

...ck Baker [alien make-up effects] with [production designer] Bo Welch's with [co-producer] Graham Place's."In MEN IN BLACK II, or MIIB as it is being referred to, K has retired from the Men in Black (as seen at the end of the first film) and had his mem...

RENDEZVOUS With David Fincher
by MICHAEL TUNISON (Sun 03-24-2002)

... PICTURE, ALIEN, ARMAGEDDON, INDEPENDENCE DAY all of these movies have plot devices and elements that are taken from it, so I don't feel you can just do the book. I think you have to re-invent it."The way Fincher envisions RAMA, "the movie will be, fo...

Nov. 5 Nov. 11: Buffy Sings!
by Sonia Mansfield (Mon 11-05-2001)

...s another alien to help him find his spaceship. Geez, does that guy have a one-track mind or what? It's all "I'm an alien this" and "I'm an alien that."Wednesday, November 7Busted! Trip learns [IMG4L]that T'Pol is sending secret messages to a Vulcan sh...


Sinise Talks IMPOSTOR
by Frank Kurtz (Fri 12-14-2001)

Gary Sinise has been talking about the coming IMPOSTOR, a film whose release had been delayed for over a year.Set in the near future, the film tells the story of a scientist named Spencer Olham, who has invented a weapon in the battle in an alien force. W...

ROSWELL "Busted"
by Eric Moro (Tue 10-09-2001)

...ly, those alien high schoolers from ROSWELL, NM have not only graduated, but they've also followed in the footsteps of their vampire slaying sister making the move to UPN and occupying the timeslot directly after hers.However, there's more to ROSWELL t...

Let's Talk CLOVERFIELD, Maniacs
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sat 07-07-2007)

...ve you an Alien alphabet from A-Z. On the second puzzle, spell out the word HAAS. The two vertical alien letters should be HA....the horizontal alien letters should be AS. A new star will appear in the sky and a new movie clip will play. Puzzle 3: Pla...

"Weird Worlds Collection: Part Two"
by John Sinnott (Mon 11-06-2006)

... creative alien landscape, and some intriguing mysteries for that the explorers have to solve before they can return home.   Taking place in far off 1985, a strange rock is discovered that isn't of Earthly origin.  When scientists examin...


More Genre Goodness on the Way
by Stephen Lackey (Sun 02-25-2007)

...gating an alien that has infiltrated the human race and that might be a part of an alien sleeper cell.  Now, this is a twist on the whole terrorist thing!  The only casting I know about so far is Rachel Nichols who last played one of the m...

The Wizard Explored
by Pat Ferrara (Tue 05-01-2007)

... fearsome alien savages whose natural fighting abilities regularly outperform the advanced technology of their human enemies. Perhaps it is these unique abilities that bring Sven to the attention of OctoV. Drafted into the Death’s Head, the elite...

THRESHOLD: THE COMPLETE SERIES
by John Sinnott (Thu 08-24-2006)

2005 was the year of the alien invasion show, with SURFACE, THRESHOLD, and INVASION all premiering within weeks of each other on major networks. While none of these shows were renewed for a second season, they are getting a second chance on DVD. One of ...

SLITHER
by Abbie Bernstein (Fri 03-31-2006)

...inger the alien critter uses to infiltrate Grant's body and mind. As Grant starts to mutate and it's one hell of a mutation and infect/impregnate the townspeople, while still trying to assert his husband status with loyal but understandably increasin...


Manfredini Chokes With Latest Film Score
by Randall Larson (Thu 08-25-2005)

... thriller/alien film, written and directed by Nick Vallelonga, and which originally was to have been called OOZE, tells the story of a serial killer who gets a second chance when he is engaged by the government to hunt down and kill alien beings who ca...

AMERICAN WAY #1
by Kurt Amacker (Fri 02-24-2006)

In AMERICAN WAY, Wesley Catham loses his marketing job at a car company after a thwarted alien invasion interrupts the presentation of the new 1961 Icon. America's favorite superheroes, the Civil Defense Corps, stop the invasion only after their flagship ...

DOCTOR WHO: The Unquiet Dead
by Jason Davis (Mon 03-27-2006)

...the sheer alien-ness of the Doctor's suggestion that these creatures be given a temporary home on Earth in the bodies of the dead, I was finally onboard. Actually, upon a year's reflection, I think it was the Doctor's notion that being an organ donor ...

Warning SIGNS
by Sonia Mansfield (Wed 11-13-2002)

...e: If the aliens could be destroyed by water (which is very Wizard of Oz of them) then why did they try to invade a planet that's 90 percent water? That would be like humans trying to take over a planet that's 90 percent lava or acid. Who's leading thi...


The Genesis Code
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 08-20-2007)

... meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship, he just hangs out in his own back yard. In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, takes readers into a strange and wonderful future, where people from another world...

Top 5 Top 5 Lists of 2007
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 12-31-2007)

... advanced alien race in hiding; fugitives like himself on a world not their own. Suddenly in possession of a powerful, dangerous secret, Ramón must battle for his freedom from alien captors and also against the hostile and unpredictable planet. ...

Return to Lovecraftian Horror
by Pat Ferrara, Columnist (Mon 01-07-2008)

...ehensible alien world. Those that wish to delve into the psyche of this master puppeteer need not wait to for these two projects to hit the box office, you can check out Subterranean Press’s signed limited edition of The Lovecraft Chronicles thi...

Black Panther Getting Animated
by Stephen Lackey (Mon 04-21-2008)

...hwart the alien menace. SARAH JANE ADVENTURES (SCIFI, 8:30PM EST) EYE OF THE GORGON The gang rallies against the Gorgon and her sinister nuns after Maria's father is turned to stone and the threat of an alien incursion becomes imminent. DOCTOR WHO (...


Some Hard Truths to Face
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 11-12-2007)

... powerful alien races: the enigmatic protoss and the ruthless zerg swarm. Conflicts rage across the Koprulu sector as each of the three species fights for its existence among the stars. Liberty’s Crusade: Behind the attacks of the zerg and the pr...

SUPERMAN #668
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 10-17-2007)

...dash; the alien Auctioneer detected another Kryptonian presence and alerted Superman. In the months following, Superman has asked Batman to monitor world events for any vaguely alien – and especially, Kryptonian – activity. Unfort...

Digging Up Deady with Voltaire
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 09-05-2007)

... his evil alien teddy bear, Deady. The fourth Deady graphic novel, Big in Japan finally sprang forth from Hot Topics and comic shops a few months ago. In possibly the worst foreign relations disaster ever, Voltaire sends the alien-disguised-a...

Killing the Imposter God
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 09-17-2007)

...e unknown alien presence which has shaped mankind’s past is back with a far more sinister intent.   One of only two paperback publications this week, Steven Erikson’s highly praised Malazan Book of the Fallen series is becoming a lit...


Stardate 0008.21: UPN Smackdown!
by Michelle Erica Green (Mon 08-21-2000)

...stigating alien machinery, assisting in the repair of unique equipment, aiding in the building or dissection of any form of technology imaginable--plus some that really aren`t imaginable, but the team tries anyway. The corps is headed by beloved Captai...

INVINCIBLE #26
by Al Brown (Thu 09-29-2005)

...s an evil alien sent to conquer the Earth, and he'd just been training his son to prepare him to help with the enslavement of the human race. Mark had a problem with that, so his dad beat the crap out of him - nearly killed him - and then took off into...

Another CLOVERFIELD Site Launches
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Fri 07-06-2007)

... An "alien" alphabet will appear in the sky. It goes in order from A-Z. On the pod containing the rumored "Parasite", I believe you're supposed to type out "Ethan Haas Was Right" in alien language. Good luck. It takes som...

Resident Evil Returns
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 07-30-2007)

...ld of the alien Vilenjji spaceship, he and a laconic dog named George, who has been speech-enhanced to increase his value, are just two more primitive creatures being shipped to the civilized part of the universe, where the market for cuddly extraterre...


Getting Raw with Thomas Jane
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 08-08-2007)

...ed up and Alien Pig Farm 3000 has all four issues out. We’re going to put the trade paperback out for that, too. So, we’ve got to get rolling on our next book, now. I think I’m going to do a werewolf book.   KA: ...

Invasion’s Back…In Pog Form!
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 07-02-2007)

...nst their alien enemies. Many of the Lightweavers are held captive by a Kurian overlord. To free them, Valentine must convince the Marshal, a legendary resistance fighter with a grudge against the Kurians, to join his cause. But the Marshal is somethin...

Godzilla returns!
by Brian Thomas (Tue 06-05-2007)

... in which aliens trick Earthlings into giving control of monsters Godzilla and Rodan as part of an invasion. Includes both the American dubbed and original Japanese versions, plus commentrak and more.   NEW RELEASES (O)   THE ABYSS (...

"Tribulation 99"
by Brian Thomas (Sun 02-25-2007)

...ation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America is Baldwin’s masterpiece of pseudo-documentary, a mad collage of disparate material brought together into a sort of Unified Field Theory of paranoia. Baldwin collects found footage, educational and indus...


An Art Director for AVP 2 Talks
by News Editor (Wed 05-30-2007)

The site Alien Experience recently interviewed Andrew Li the Assistant Art Director for Alien vs. Predator 2. Li revealed, "We used A LOT of locations on this movie, so I won't go into details here to bore you. We shot in an old hospital for the men...

One Last Time
by Janet Houck (Fri 06-01-2007)

...ding cute alien and a loser boy with objects coming out of his head has been a fan favorite since it first hit Japanese DVD players. People are still to this day arguing about what was the plot anyway, and what did the ending mean. (Best interpretation...

Drizzt Do’Urden Is Back?
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 09-24-2007)

...s-in-law, aliens, secret codes, Secret Santas, tube stations, choir practice, the post office, the green light on Daisy's dock, weddings, divorces, death, and assorted plagues, from scarlet fever to "It's a Wonderful Life." And a dog. Famous ...

Let’s Talk TORCHWOOD #1 - 9
by Stephen Lackey (Mon 10-08-2007)

... catching aliens that are running rampant across the U.K. The team also archives any alien technology they come across and they try their best to figure out how to use the technology to protect the world against encroaching aliens. In the fir...


Top SF Awards
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 03-24-2008)

...ar future alien mystery Nova Swing, locking out tough competition from Sean Williams (Saturn Returns) and Minister Faust (From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain). This week’s release schedule features works from two of the nominated authors: Greg Egan...

X-FILES: REVELATIONS Hits DVD July 8
by Jarrod Sarafin (Wed 07-02-2008)

...;on  alien abductions,  psychic phenomenon and life forms not quite human that set the stage for the eagerly anticipated sequel.  As an added bonus, the DVD set also features the theatrical teaser trailer along with a free Hollywood Movi...

Director Shimizu Has a PARASYTE
by News Editor (Fri 07-15-2005)

...enters on alien spores which land on Earth and start taking over human bodies. One young man manages to isolate his "parasyste" in his left arm. Left part human and part alien, the young man and "Lefty" -- an alien arm with a will of its own -- are the...

The Side Project
by Pat Ferrara, Columnist (Mon 01-21-2008)

...ree dozen alien ships crash-land in the middle of a blizzard, landing in the Midwest of America and Canada. Almost miraculously, in spite of the paranoia of the people who encounter them, the aliens known as the Wannoshay begin to integrate slowly into...


THE GRAYS
by Pat Ferrara (Tue 11-27-2007)

When it comes to sci-fi I like my aliens well defined and complex, their culture exotic and wholly different, yet comparable to our own. I like aliens that are part of a fully imagined race, both known and mysterious at the same time. And most importantly...

The X-FILES Complete Collector's Edition Hits Tuesday
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Sun 11-04-2007)

...ex web of alien and government conspiracies within the story arc from all four volumes of the popular The X-Files Mythology DVD collections. THE X-FILES”–THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR’S EDITION will be available for the suggested retail pric...

A Literate Look at the Strike of ‘08
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 11-05-2007)

...y and its alien allies have joined together to battle the Hive-a force of pure destruction sweeping through the galaxy. But when the leader of the Roman world is assassinated, tensions escalate-and Captain John Farragut is forced to lead a mission into...

"Save the Green Planet"
by John Sinnott (Mon 12-11-2006)

...ually an alien from Andromeda.  At the next lunar eclipse, a mere week away, Byeong-gu is sure that the Prince of Andromeda will arrive and contact Kang before destroying the world.   With the destruction of the planet imminent, Byeong-g...


Super DVD Day
by Brian Thomas (Tue 11-28-2006)

...ATION 99: ALIEN ANOMALIES ACROSS AMERICA (Other/Facets) Craig Baldwin’s incredible, hilarious 1992 anti-documentary, which cobbles together hundreds of psychotronic film clips with spooky narration to tell the story of a massive alien conspira...

TIME'S EYE on bookshelves
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 01-13-2004)

Imagine in the year 2037 that thousands of alien spheres suddenly appear over the Earth. In a wink of an eye, through a kind of technology humanity knows nothing of, the planet Earth is carved up into thousands of different zones of time; standing in one ...

Martian Child, The
by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 08-27-2004)

...tually an alien from Mars.Release Date:Unknown.Comments:None.Scoop Feedback:October 17, 2002... Variety reports that New Line Cinema has purchased THE MARTIAN CHILD, a short story by SF author David Gerrold (STAR TREK'S "The Trouble with Tribbles" rem...

X-FILES star investigates the secrets of AREA 51
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 08-26-2004)

...l, frozen alien bodies, the soundstage where the government faked the lunar landings and even an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility all lie in wait for Cole and his teammates to discover. Whether they will live to tell anyone about it rem...


The Best of 2003 Part 2
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 01-08-2004)

...mbo-Meets-Alien monster thriller came from the Varese CD Club in August (VCL 0803 1022). The music never garnered a soundtrack release of its own, except for an uneven bootleg in 1997. Alan Silvestri composed an energetic and bombastically dissonant ac...

ALIENS egg added to museum
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 12-10-2003)

The next time you're visiting the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, don't pull a Kane and look into the alien egg.The Smithsonian Institute has added an egg from James Cameron's ALIENS to its collection of movie memorabilia, as well as a ...

FIREBALL XL5
by BRIAN THOMAS (Mon 05-26-2003)

...d strange alien races, both friendly and hostile, in the usual manner. As with all Supermarionation shows, a good job is done in avoiding such puppet-challenging action as fistfights, while overcoming the hazards of plainly visible wires with good voic...

Rerun Madness
by Andrew Hershberger (Mon 06-09-2003)

...idence of alien contact. Ludicrous leaps of logic promised... heck, make that guaranteed.LAST COMIC STANDING (9 pm, CBS) Comedians compete for a network contract. Savage first episode has Jerry Seinfeld tearing out Jay Mohr's throat with his teeth. The...


Hits and Misses
by David Michael Wharton (Mon 11-15-2004)

...e's a new alien that wants to hurt us, help me robot) they stuck to one alien species and although those beings got a little uninteresting from time to time it was more interesting and realistic instead of trying the new creature of the week. "The stru...

The Gladiators: Galactic Circus Games
by Ure "Vader" Paul (Mon 02-17-2003)

...-tempered alien force (oh bugger, never expected that one!). The player begins his gladiatory career as the dashing human soldier, Greg Callahan, who was recruited by an enchanted blue-breasted alien princess with the longest three ponytails you've...

Comicscape - June 14, 2006
by KURT AMACKER (Wed 06-14-2006)

...ARK HORSE ALIENS PREDATOR PANEL TO PANEL TP $19.95Kurt: It can''t possibly be any less violent than the Paul Anderson flick, so go nuts. BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #114 (MR) $2.99 CRYING FREEMAN VOL 2 TP (MR) $14.95Al: A dramatization about when Morgan F...

Outlander
by Karl Schneider (Thu 10-05-2006)

...th him an alien predator that he must destroy with the help of a Viking tribe.Comments: Not quite sure if the addition of Jim Caviezel means Karl Urban is no longer playing a role, but that would be my guess.Updates:September 26, 2006 - According to th...


Music To Destroy All Humans By – Too
by Randall Larson (Thu 11-09-2006)

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS  Composer Garry Schyman’s score for the 2005 THQ alien invasion videogame Destroy All Humans! was a frenzied, lovingly retro science fiction horror score written in the style of 1950’s sci-fi movies ...

Reality TV, My Way
by Jason Davis (Mon 02-06-2006)

...elease of ALIEN NATION for another publication. We've got two cops, the human Matthew Sikes and the Newcomer George Francisco. Obviously, the dramatic tension of the series is based in the differences of the characters, but they're both decent, moral...

Monster Music Strikes Back!
by Randall Larson (Mon 01-09-2006)

...And Other Alien Invasion Films) contains never-before-released music from four outer space films of the 1950s THIS ISLAND EARTH (And Other Alien Invasion Films) © Monstrous Movie Music and '60s. THIS ISLAND EARTH was Universal-Internationa...

Don't Judge a Book By Its Pilot
by David Michael Wharton (Mon 10-03-2005)

...n of the "alien sector", the better, but I would hope that as our species evolves and expands into the depths of space, we have a little more tact than to stick any alien ambassadors we may encounter into what amounts to a zoo exhibit. Yes, yes, I kno...


Directors Who Matter Steven Spielberg
by ANTHONY C. FERRANTE (Fri 12-23-2005)

...lberg saw alien life forms as benevolent creatures that loved music and Reese's Pieces. In 2005, they wanted to destroy our planet. It's surprising that Spielbe