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THR: You recently received NATO's award as director of the year, and "Aliens" has grossed over $77 million. Do you have any projects on the back bur...
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Over the years, I've heard of many mythical scenes that have supposedly been filmed, lost, seen exclusively at crew/press screenings and even released...
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Alien 3 has so many inconsistencies and plot holes that it leaves not just the casual viewer asking question after question but for the hardcore fan t...
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If you've watched Alien 3 real close, you will notice two commandos that look strange and stick out from the rest. You first come across these two com...
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You will be familiar with Giger's early concept designs for the facehugger and chestburster. However, it wasn't Giger, who built or operated the two c...
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When it came to giving the adult alien function, it was clear that the production team needed someone with not only considerable sculpting skills but ...
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A question I was asked a while ago:
Why was Ripley's nose bleeding? was it an accident after she grabbed Ash in the computer annex?
No, the scene wh...
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For a lot of Alien/Aliens fans with Alien 3 they either don't acknowledge it's existence, complain endlessly about how they 'Killed Hicks and Newt' or...
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Who the hell is Vincent?Watching the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 you will notice in the bait and chase sequence at the end of the movie, we see Kevin ("Di...
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On a bright October afternoon, five hours before the grand opening of Alien War, I've gone underground into the bowels into the planet, Planet Hollywo...
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Here are some images of Giger's unused Alien 3 creature:
Credit goes to the original photographers....
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On set or off, movie makers Jim Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd are never Aliens to each other. By Jim Calio.
The night Aliens opened last month, James ...
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Aliens: Ride at the speed of fright was a 1996 motion-simulation ride based on the movie Aliens. The ride was located at Pier 39's TurboRide Simulatio...
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Alien screenwriter speaks his mind - By Ed Sunden II, Fantastic Films.
FF: You got a new movie coming out - ALIEN.
O' Bannon: Right.
FF: And you ...
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Gary Bunn from the UK Aliens fan club interviewed Brian Johnson and Stuart Galloway for their fanzine magazine called facehugger Issue #2.
Brian Jons...
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My good friend Vulhala and I were discussing a particular scene unfilmed for Alien, which led to an interesting conversation about that very scene and...
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Below are small snippets regarding the Alien movies from various interviews.
In an interview about 'Return of the Living Dead' DVD release O' Bannon ...
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Before the release of Aliens in 1986, James Cameron removed over 20 minutes of footage bringing the theatrical runtime to 137 minutes. Five years foll...
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After the release of Alien, many magazine articles began to spring with talk about scenes cut from Alien including a cocoon scene which became Alien's...
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I was sent an e-mail from an Andrew Carville regarding a deleted scene featured in the Alien Legacy documentary.
The scene shows two of the ship's cr...
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