Dark Horse has just announced it's third volume in the highly popular Predator Omnibus series:
"Death often hides in the dark, isolated corners of the earth-in thick woods, steaming swamps, or angry seas. These natural dangers of animal, weather, and terrain often give rise to legends and folk tales of demons, serpents, and ghosts to put an understandable face to the ... [Read More]
There's a couple of new UK AvP Requiem reviews. The first is in the News of the World (There's also a scan of the newspaper article here.) and another one on Empire. Both are very negative and they give it 1/5.
The box office totals so far are $40,081,000 domestic and $36,536,503 foreign giving a ... [Read More]
NECA have released the first pictures of their Alien 18" Action Figure based on Ridley Scott's Alien.
In 1979, audiences were terrified by Ridley Scott's genre-redefining science fiction masterpiece: Alien. In 2008, fans finally get what they've been waiting for: an Alien 18" Action Figure from NECA! Captured in painstaking detail, the Alien hits shelves this spring. We'll ... [Read More]
There's a fairly detailed article on CGSociety about the visual effects in AvP Requiem. They interviewed the Strause Brothers as well two crew members.
"Even so, the film has around 460 visual effects shots. In addition to adding digital characters in post, Hydraulx created the interior of the predator’s ship, wiped out a city with a nuclear blast, colorized ... [Read More]
There's a competition on Kerrang at the moment to win tickets to see AvP Requiem. You'll stay in some London hotel and after you've seen the movie, they take you to some battle event in the forest.
"Want to get even closer to the biggest, baddest battle between the deadliest species who are now on Earth? Enter our prize ... [Read More]
Fox have finally given Predator on Blu-Ray a release date. It will be released April 15, 2008 in the US according to High-Def Digest. Special features are unknown for now.
"In an early announce to retailers, Fox has set an April Blu-ray debut for the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic 'Predator.' One of the "monster" franchises of the '80s (along with ... [Read More]
NECA has just released some official pictures of its upcoming Wolf figure, both masked and unmasked versions:
"The Predator's trademark shoulder-mounted Plasma Cannons are jointed, can swivel and pivot up and down, and be folded back when not in use. And just like in AVP: Requiem, they can be removed from the shoulders and used as hand-held guns with attaching battery ... [Read More]
There's some minor news about AvP Requiem on Blu-Ray at High-Def Digest. Something about an interactive game.
"The exec also demonstrated the forthcoming "Alien vs. Predator vs. You" BD-Live interactive game, which can be played by multiple players across a network, and is set to be included in the forthcoming 2008 Blu-ray release of 'Alien vs. Predator: Requiem' (street ... [Read More]
Well this is certainly interesting. Fox has put up this official trivia competition in which fans can compete with other fans in a chance to win prizes:
"Hi, I work for a trivia company, we've just teamed up with 20th Century Fox to create a freeplay Aliens and Predator quiz based on all of the movies and the run of comics, ... [Read More]
There's a new two-page article about AvP Requiem in this month's Total Film Magazine. Forum member War Wager was kind enough to scan the article in. Check out this thread in the forum for the scans plus a full transcript.
There's two new behind-the-scenes images, one of the Predalien and the other of the skinned body. There's also a very ... [Read More]
News seems to have all but disappeared since AvPR came out. I feel sorta empty. There's an interview with the Strause Brothers on LA Times (Requires Registration). It's mostly about their life story and how they got into visual effects and formed Hydraulx etc.
"Colin, the more effusive of the two, said they convinced executives at 20th Century ... [Read More]
The merchandise board has been buzzing about this for the past few days but it's taken this long for bigger and better pictures to show up. Without further ado I present to you the PredAlien vs Predator - PRE-PAINTED DIORAMA KIT:
"Approximate standing 12 inches tall well pre-painted diorama kit, this highly detailed sculpture captures the Predator and its enemy Predalien ... [Read More]
I found this fantastic video on YouTube which led me to one of our linked sites, Pryotecto-Yautja. Turns out one of their forum members, Deimos Anomaly, has made this cracking Aliens game using the Doom2 engine:
The game text is in Spanish(I think) and there are only two levels. You don't need Doom2 to play this, you just ... [Read More]