20th Century Fox screens Alien: Covenant behind-the-scenes footage at CCXP! Just before the weekend we were covering 20th Century Fox’s presence at the Brazilian convention, CCXP – Comic Con Experience. They advertised an exhibition that sounded like it would be featuring props and items from Alien: Covenant but it turned out to be a display of props from Alien ... [Read More]

Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox Brazil teased an exhibition of some variety at CCXP – Comic Con Experience. It sounded very much like it would be an exhibition of props from Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Unfortunately, this turned out to not be the case. Mimi Kamioka was kind enough to check out ... [Read More]

It looks as if Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. is set to provide creature effects for The Predator! Earlier last week Tom Woodruff Jr.’s IMDB profile was updated to include The Predator, specifically Predator creature effects. Woodruff’s ADI partner Alec Gillis also confirmed via Twitter that he will be working on The Predator, tagging Woodruff in his post. A ... [Read More]

We have just uploaded our new interview with Dirk Maggs, the man behind the upcoming Alien: Out of the Shadows audio dramatization. As part of 20th Century Fox’s extensive Alien Day celebrations, an audio dramatization of Titan Book’s and Tim Lebbon’s novel Alien: Out of the Shadows was announced. The man behind the project? None other than ... [Read More]

Neill Blomkamp has just posted a brand new picture on Instagram – this time instead of concept art from his new Alien movie, we get to see a prop of the Pulse Rifle! The M41A Pulse Rifle was, of course, the iconic weapon that the Colonial Marines used in James Cameron’s Aliens so it’s implied we’ll be seeing lots more ... [Read More]

Michael Biehn is currently in attendance at the Sheffield Film and Comic Con. I’m also at the convention and Michael Biehn just finished his talk. It primarily focused on his work aside from Aliens but the topic of Alien 5 inevitably came up. Biehn confirmed that Neill Blomkamp had talked to him about Alien 5 but he hasn’t read a script nor ... [Read More]

Director Neill Blomkamp has shared a brand new piece of concept art for Alien 5 on his Instagram account. This one shows Ripley and Corporal Hicks with his acid-burnt face, standing next to a man in heavy armour. Note the South Korean flag on his armour. You can also make out two strange figures standing behind them ... [Read More]

Could Bill Paxton be making a dramatic return to the Alien franchise? In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Aliens actor admits he hadn’t heard about Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 sequel but is eager to return to the series to play Hudson again if Michael Biehn returns to play Corporal Hicks:  “Maybe,” said Paxton. “I mean, if you’re going to ... [Read More]

When you mention Alien Resurrection you will almost unanimously get a negative response. Many people don’t like it and for a variety of reasons. I recently became quite fascinated with how a film with so many talented people involved in making it would turn away so many. And so OmegaZilla, RidgeTop, Xenomorphine and I sat down to discuss Alien Resurrection for ... [Read More]

Throughout 2014 Titan Books reprinted Alan Dean Foster’s trilogy of Alien film novelizations with lovely new jackets in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Alien.  I honestly hadn’t expected them to reprint Alien Resurrection. The Alien Resurrection novelization was first published in 1997 and written by A.C Crispin (now deceased). It was the first of the Alien film novelizations not ... [Read More]