i09 have recently shared an exclusive look at Sideshow's upcoming Mythos Alien statue. Designed in collaboration with Legacy Effects, the successor to Stan Winston Studios, the Mythos Alien is a re-imagining of the classic Alien design. Redesigned by Legacy Studios and Sideshow, the Mythos alien offers fans a creepy new take on the classic monster as seen in ... [Read More]

Alien title sequence designer and Predator special effects artist Richard Alan Greenberg has sadly died at age 71. The Hollywood Reporter have announced (via Xenomorphing) that Greenberg passed away on the 16th of June in New York following issues with appendicitis. Richard Alan Greenberg has a very involved history with both the Alien and Predator franchises. Along with his brother Robert, the ... [Read More]

In two weeks time Prop Store - London are running another Live Auction. And this next auction has a nice chunk of Alien and Predator props up for grabs! There's some more obscure items in the way of Janek's concertina from Prometheus, various appendages from Aliens and Brian Johnson's personal copy of Alien's script. But there's ... [Read More]

While Predator's 30th anniversary may have come and gone without any attention from 20th Century Fox, the folk over at The Hollywood Reporter went out and spoke to many of the cast and crew on the film and put together a fantastic "oral history" on the Predator! "We were having a weapons introduction day, and I gave a ... [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]

Martin Whist to serve as Production Designer for The Predator. It was first announced by Fred Dekker back at the start of June and now Creative BC is re-iterating the news. "Very pleased that Martin Whist has joined the team as Production Designer of THE PREDATOR. (P.S. I am not holding the ROBOCOP remake against ... [Read More]

20th Century Fox have officially announced that the Alien Anthology Blu-Ray set will be released October 25th in the UK, October 26th in the US and November 3rd in Australia. There are over 60 hours of special features and the discs include two versions of each film with over four hours of unreleased material. It has a ... [Read More]

MovieHole caught up with KNB's Howard Berger whose company are doing the special effects on Predators. He basically just says they're going to be faithful to Stan Winston's work in the original movies. “I just saw some photos today and they look absolutely fantastic!”, says Berger, who got his start working with Stan Winston on films like “Predator” and ... [Read More]

This is some very sad news. Special effects artist Stan Winston passed away on Sunday, June 15th in Los Angeles, California. He was 62 years old. Stan has, of course, worked on some iconic movies in his career such as Terminator and Jurassic Park and has created some of the most memorable special effects in cinematic history. He ... [Read More]

A second review for the Predator Collector's Edition DVD set has been published on ComingSoon.net. The review is fairly positive except for the remarks about the artwork understandably. Here's an excerpt: "The effects of Predator were also remarkable. Not only was the camouflage effect unique but the alien makeup itself was stunning. The alien was definitely a guy in a ... [Read More]

Stan Winston recently had a chat with Movie Hole in which he mentioned Alien vs Predator: "One film Winston’s a little disappointed he didn’t get asked to be a part of was the upcoming “Aliens vs. Predator”. “I wanted to be involved in that so badly”, he confesses. “I mean I created the Predator. I drew him up on a ... [Read More]