‘Alien’ Nearly Had a Shaved Orangutan Instead of a Xenomorph As Its Big Bad

By Johnny Brayson May 4, 2017

  The Xenomorph in Alien is considered by many to be the greatest movie monster of all time. H.R. Giger’s design is iconic and terrifying, and it’s safe to say that the genres of sci-fi and horror wouldn’t be the same without it. But the creature’s now-classic design was just one of several suggestions for the film’s...

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The First Trailer for The Dark Tower Brings Stephen King’s Epic World to Life

By Kieran Dickson May 3, 2017

The wait for our first look at a big-screen take on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has been almost as epic as the books themselves, but with the release of the movie’s first trailer today, that wait came to an end in spectacular fashion.   If you thought adapting an 8-novel fantasy epic was too ambitious of a...

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Watch Wesley Snipes Battle Alien Invaders in the First Trailer for The Recall

By Kieran Dickson May 2, 2017

Wesley Snipes has fought many things over the years: Vampires, Sly Stallone, and even hustlers on the basketball court. But, rarely does he go toe-to-toe with extraterrestrial invaders…until now, that is.   A new trailer for The Recall has just been released, and it features all the hallmarks of a crazy piece of sci-fi horror. From good looking teens...

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Get Your First Look at the New Jaegers of Pacific Rim: Uprising

By Kieran Dickson May 2, 2017

The sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is starting to gear up for its 2018 release, which means we’re starting to get our first look at our next fix of Giant Robot vs Angry Kaiju action.   Unfortunately for the good guys, the events of the first movie saw the original fleet of giant robots...

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Ridley Scott Says Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is Dead

By Kieran Dickson May 1, 2017

A few years back, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp caused a stir when he revealed his plan to create a new sequel for the Alien franchise. Initially, Blomkamp’s vision was to essentially ignore the last two Alien movies and bring back original cast members Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn for what was described as a “spiritual sequel” to...

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A New Masters of the Universe Movie Just Got a Release Date!

By Kieran Dickson April 28, 2017

Break out your furry loincloths, folks, because a new Masters of the Universe movie just got an official release date. According to EW, Sony is aiming to give 2019 a He-Man holiday, penciling the upcoming project with a December 19th release date. The move appears to take advantage of a relatively open 2019 holiday season. After...

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‘The Outer Limits’ Featured Possibly the Weirdest Episode of TV Ever

By Johnny Brayson April 27, 2017

  Without question, one of the weirdest television shows ever broadcast was the original incarnation of The Outer Limits. The groundbreaking 1963 sci-fi series really lived up to its name by featuring content that was so out there compared to the rest of the television series of its day that it still has yet to be...

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Woah! David Fincher is Set to Direct the Sequel to World War Z

By Kieran Dickson April 27, 2017

The sequel to the 2013 zombie flick World War Z is back on track in a big, big way. It wasn’t too long ago that the sequel looked to be dead in the water, but now Variety is reporting that Paramount is close to securing a deal to sit David Fincher back in the director’s chair.   Brad Pitt,...

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This New ‘Alien: Covenant’ Prologue Video Fills in the Gaps After ‘Prometheus’

By Johnny Brayson April 27, 2017

  Alien: Covenant is the sequel to Prometheus. It’s also a prequel to Alien. And since the film looks much more like the latter than the former, there are questions as to how we got from Prometheus to Covenant. Well, wonder no more, as a new prologue video has just been released by 20th Century...

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A ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ Prequel Story Is on the Way

By Johnny Brayson April 26, 2017

  It’s one of the strangest movies of all time, and now we get to see how it all began. Bubba Ho-Tep, the wacky romp about a modern day Elvis Presley fighting a dangerous mummy with the help of an African-American JFK, is getting a prequel — but you won’t be catching it in movie theaters....

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