It's been a while since there's been any decent fan films. A new Predator/Terminator fan film called The Calm went live yesterday complete with a website, trailer and a behind-the-scenes feature. The film's about 23 minutes long.
Well worth downloading. There's some interesting stuff in there. Thanks to Peter for the news. [Read More]
Jesus, just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. Comic-Con have got the title of AvP2 down as: Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace On Earth.
Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace On Earth, American Gangster, Babylon AD, Balls of Fury, Beowulf, The Bourne Ultimatum, Coraline, Fred Claus, Get Smart, The Golden Compass, Hellboy 2: The ... [Read More]
Gamespot have given a few details away about the forthcoming Aliens FPS, developed by Gearbox:
"Development for the project is apparently well under way. "We're working really hard on that right now," said Pitchford> ... The executive also revealed some tidbits about the plot of the Aliens game, which is due on "next-gen platforms" in 2009. "Our game's about becoming ... [Read More]
In this week's issue of Film Music Weekly, music composer Brian Tyler did an interview with them about a film called Bug. Right at the end of the interview, he briefly mentions AvP2 and how it will be like the originals:
"Now I am scoring "Aliens vs Predator 2" and that is absolutely incredible to work on. The Brothers ... [Read More]
Not exactly new news, but Dark Horizons mentioned that the teaser for AvP2 will premiere at the San Diego Comic Convention Thu, July 26 - Sun, July 29.
""Alien vs. Predator 2: Survival of the Fittest" will premiere its teaser trailer at the San Diego Comic Con in July."
I'm guessing the teaser will premiere online a few days after. ... [Read More]
What do you know> ... two new merch websites inside of a week. The Ultimate Predator has made a new website called Access Space. This one is dedicated to Alien/Predator/AvP trading cards and has lots of information about them including a dedicated forum.
Be sure to check it out if you're interested in trading cards. Ian also shut down ... [Read More]
Alien Experience have done an interview with the assistant art director on AvP2, Andrew Li. There's a lot of interesting stuff in it about the predator ship and the sewer set.
"I worked mainly on the sewer set and the predator spacecraft> ... We wanted to keep the sewer relatively small so that the aliens and predators would look very ... [Read More]
About time I did another one of these. Probably should have made a newsie last week when Colin gave this big spoiler away about teamups in the Q&A Topic.
There will definitely be no human-predator teamups in AvP2. That's probably a big story spoiler and in my opinion, it's definitely a big plus point.
We'll possibly see something new in the ... [Read More]
A few new site updates this weekend. Firstly Corporal Hicks has written a review of the AvP Omnibus Volume 1:
"By bringing all these old comics together for the price of 1 and a half TPB comics, the Omnibuses are sure to be a hit with new fans and old ones alike. I would recommend this to ANY Alien vs ... [Read More]
Apparently, the BFI IMAX will be having an all-night screening of the Alien Quadrilogy that will take place in London on June 2. Empire Online has the details:
"BFI IMAX have announced that an all-night screening of the Alien Quadrilogy will take place in London on June 2. Ridley Scott’s Alien, James Cameron’s Aliens and David Fincher’s Alien 3 ... [Read More]
Good Alien/Predator websites are hard to find these days. SiL has made a slick new website called SO937 - stands for Special Order 937 - Ash's order from Alien. It's a website dedicated to Alien/Predator/AvP novels and comics. "With a little luck I should be finished within the next two weeks or so." says SiL.
To be fair, ... [Read More]
Ah, the moment you've all been waiting for. The winners of the AvP Omnibus competition. Out of all the entries, 13 people managed to get 10/10. Those people are listed on the Competition Page along with the answers to the questions which are highlighted in red.
The three winners drawn at random are:
-Kimarhi
-Noir-Gojira
-mjacobson
Congrats to those people. ... [Read More]
Looks like Fox is releasing yet another Alien/Predator boxset, this time called the Ultimate Collectors Edition:
There is no information on what's in the set, but from the picture, it looks like a repackaging of the old Alien Legacy and Predator single disk DVDs. Hopefully we'll be finding out more soon. The set looks to be a UK exclusive and is ... [Read More]