Amidst all the recent casting rumors going around, one has surfaced in regards to Lance Henriksen being involved in the film: "The inclusion of Henriksen is an unexpected one. His character was cleverly integrated into Alien 3, but how will writer Damon Lindelof work him into a prequel apparently set 35 years before the events of Alien? Will ... [Read More]

While not officially released until tomorrow, review copies and early copies of the Alien Anthology have found their way into hands of many people. Below are some of the reviews written up so far: The Digital Bits review Total Film review DVD Beaver review IGN review Screen Jabber review ... [Read More]

We're starting to receive news of other potential castings for the Prequel films: "Since we're playing the "who's in talks" game, Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned of two more names interested in joining Ridley Scott's deep space horror Alien. Both Anne Hathaway (Passengers) and James Franco (Rise of the Apes) could be suiting up for the prequel penned by "Lost" scripter ... [Read More]

A new interview with Sigourney Weaver has been posted up on ShockTillYouDrop: "You know, I work with a lot of young actors at our theater in New York, The Flea, and it's good for them to see these embarrassing screen tests. I guess I can sort of see what Ridley maybe liked in it. It's hard to ... [Read More]

Fox have released a new website to promote the Anthology Blu-ray. It's basically some footage from Alien and it allows you to upload a picture of yourself to get face-hugged. As well as that, an English version of the MU-TH-UR trailer has also been released. [Read More]

The kind folks over at UGO recently dropped us a line letting us know about these gems: Drawn by Chris Moreno, the artwork is a collaboration of UGO and Fox to promote the much anticipated Aliens Anthology. They're the resulting a face-hugging with well known characters. Chris created two galleries worth of cartoons. Click here ... [Read More]

Make of this what you will. I'm still digesting it: "Reports are coming in that the co-creator of Lost has just turned in his script for the Untitled Alien Prequel for director Ridley Scott and the executives at 20th Century Fox love it. Why do they love it? Well, because Scott originally budgeted the film around $150 ... [Read More]

Home Cinema Choice have posted up a review of the Aliens Anthology due out in just under 2 weeks time: "The remastered Aliens encode is a thing of incredible beauty, where some kind of noise reduction tech has been used to clean the image, but not at the expense of fine textures and shadow detail, while ... [Read More]

To promote the upcoming Predators Blu-ray and DVD release, Fox have opened a new Predators themed site: It's a game that is designed to utilize Facebook that lets you unlock new clips and trailers. Fox have also released some clips via YouTube. You can also check out some previews of the upcoming release in ... [Read More]

Movie magazine Empire has reviewed the upcoming Aliens Anthology set in their latest issue which is on shelves now: It's a 2 page spread and a positive review. No definitive score on the complete set though, rather reviews on the individual cuts and a 5/5 for the extras. You can check out Daz_85's scans in the forum. [Read More]

I'm sure we're all getting rather frustrated at the lack of any news to do with Gearbox's Colonial Marines. Seems like CEO Randy Pitchford thinks they announced it too soon: "Duke Nukem Forever is consuming about 70 staff, so there’s still a huge amount of push power behind our other projects," said Pitchford. "We’re very, very committed to Aliens: ... [Read More]

So we've seen reports that Ridley Scott may have been in talks with Gemma Arteton and Noomi Rapace. Deadline.com have also dropped a further 2 names into that list: "I've heard that list includes the studio's Wall Street 2 star Carey Mulligan and Abbie Cornish (Scott directed her in A Good Year). But another ... [Read More]

Back in August I announced that AvPGalaxy had organized a showing of Alien and Aliens for the fans in England. We have a little over a month left before the events takes place and only 8 tickets remaining: “The showings will be taking place at The Screen Room, an independent one screen cinema in Nottingham, ... [Read More]