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Alien Quote: "Hated it. Simple as that. I hated what they did.... I couldn't stand Alien 3" James Cameron and his thoughts on Alien 3, while talking to BBC1. (July 7, 2003.) December 21, 2003
A quick note: Make sure to go to the following sites that have interviews and articles on the ALIEN vs PREDATOR movie (including a really nice breakdown of the movie and cast listings, both sites have (and will have) interviews with the director Paul Anderson...: IGN Filmforce JoBlo Check 'em out. Great reading.  
And finally, I have some quick thoughts on the ALIEN 3 Quadrilogy DVD. I watched the 'special edition' version and I am quite impressed; the picture quality is excellent and the extra scenes are finally available to any fan. However, this version *does not* include all of the footage that is on the Alien 3 'pre-release' version. In my opinion, the 'pre-release' version is much closer to what director David Fincher envisioned for the film, and the 'special edition' version is just an assembly of footage that was collected prior to the pre-release bootleg. I am surprised that not all of the possible footage was used. However, this is a minor gripe, and the film itself is fantastic. I will construct a full list of differences in due time. December 4, 2003
This update thing is taking longer than usual. :) Here is a partial update. And if you sent me an email within the last few weeks, I'm responding to them now! ;) Thank you for visiting :) New MTV "UnderGRADS" reference! Take a look at all the Alien References, including a recent submission from Deren, that he noticed from MTV's UnderGRADS tv show. Thanks Deren for the submission!
GERMAN alien website!
Tomb Raider Reference!
ALIEN QUADRILOGY is Released!I picked up my dvd set. I watched about 10 min worth of Alien 3, and the cut material is in excellent picture quality...fantastic! :) I realize I said I'd update today...but that will be delayed until tomorrow. I'm too busy watching the box set. :-)
Just a quick note: An update is coming up on December 3rd. That should give me enough time to watch the new DVD set. :)
Did you see the pictures for the Quadrilogy Box Set from the previous update? Those are for the region 2 release, for region 1 (North America) things get more complicated:
Thanks to Xander for passing this info along. For the FULL Review of the Quadrilogy set take a visit to DVD Town. November 7, 2003 
ALIEN Quadrilogy DVD info!Plenty of info coming in on the DVD series. The details (including everything that is on the DVD's) can be found by going to the dvd area! The highlights:
- ALIEN Resurrection "Extended Cut" (with Alternate Opening and Ending Sequences) - Complete Laser Disc Archive of Alien and Aliens A huge thanks goes to DVD Answers for collecting the info so neatly. :) And here is some comments on ALIEN 3: Fincher was approached with the idea of returning to create a true director's cut, but he unfortunately declined to participate in the project. He did, however, give his blessing to what was ultimately done instead. Using the original shooting script, the existing workprint, [...] DVD producer[s] have created what could be accurately called a "restored workprint version" or an "assembly cut." This is basically the version of the film we've all heard rumors of for years. It includes all of the footage that was in Fincher's original rough edit - all of the studio-excised scenes and subplots. Additionally, numerous special effects shots have been completed where necessary (using modern CGI techniques) to create a 'finished' looking film, again using storyboards and other production reference materials to determine what the filmmakers originally intended. This is from the extremely detailed Digital Bits' ALIEN QUADRILOGY review. It is a great read; this small excerpt does not do the review justice. The review is *huge* and in depth.
ALIEN Directors Cut - Box office
Thursday, October 30, $116,771, Total= $263,895 Friday, October 31, $362,896, Total= $626,791 Saturday, November 1, $404,879, Total= $1,031,670 Sunday, November 2, $255,890, Total= $1,287,560 Monday, November 3, $83,042, Total= $1,370,602 Tuesday, November 4, $82,122, Total= $1,452,724 Wednesday, November 5, $45,610, Total= $1,498,334 Thursday, November 6, $45,126, Total= $1,543,460 Friday, November 7, $73,000, Total= $1,616,000 (est.) Saturday, November 8, $108,000, Total= $1,724,000 (est.) Sunday, November 9, $104,000, Total= $1,848,000 (est.) This info can be found on many sites, but BoxOfficeMojo makes the info very nice to look at. Pre-Order the QUADRILOGY Yep, you can pre-order the Quadrilogy at Amazon. To directly link to the Quadrilogy just click on the image to the right. ALIEN Experience News: The ALIEN Experience is posting an impressive amount of info lately! One snippet:
The ALIEN Experience has also been keeping up to date with Alien-ish actors/actresses birthdays, pictures of the box set and more...just visit them, already! :) October 30, 2003 
ALIEN - The Directors CutOn October 31st, across North America, ALIEN - The Director's Cut opens in theatres. What more can I say....go see it! It opened in limited run Wednesday, and on Friday will expand to about 350 theatres, and is expected to take in about 1 million dollars. Xander passed along some *excellent* pictures for the movie from the British Newspaper "The Sun". To see a HUGE scan of the advert, just click on the image to the right. And as Xander points out: BBFC has rated the film "15" (similar to a PG-13 film in North America), from an 18 (a R rating.) The violence is more tame now than in '79. Also, take a look at the lower right corner  The first look at Aliens Vs Predator will be before this film...excellent! A quick report on the trailer (rumor): "very Stargate opening like, swooping close-ups of the alien head and the predator mask. Then a shot of a ship dropping a pod to earth, very cool". [Note: I've lost the original source of this, I beleive it may have been from Dark Horizons.] Ridley on ALIEN 5 Xander also found this small news bit in the "Bizarre" section of the same newspaper:
[Mad props to Xander!] ALIEN Vs PREDATOR script review Ain't It Cool News appears to have a script review of the upcoming Aliens Vs Predator film. To read the review, just click here. ALIEN Vs PREDATOR script review Dark Horizons had a quick bit on ALIENS vs PREDATOR casting: "Sanaa Lathan ("Out of Time") will play explorer-adventuress Lex Kline who leads an expedition to Antarctica to uncover warring alien races. Shooting begins next week in Prague..." Jason Statham....quick bit I'm posting this bit of news because I think Jason Statham is cool...and I liked the movie "The Transporter" (Very underrated...a nice little action flick.) He was mentioning directors he would like to work with:
Answer:Jason: I like David Fincher. I thought he made a great movie with the pirates, Gore Verbinski. I thought that was hilarious with Johnny Depp. I've got a big long list of directors. Michael Mann, I think he's tremendous. Oliver Stone. There'll all cool directors. Scorsese - please! ALIEN Vs PREDATOR....more news All posted from Dark Horizons. Since it was posted a week or so ago I think it is ok to post: At "Ghetto Con", (The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention), a 5-minute pre-production presentation on Alien Vs. Predator was shown. 'Agent G' has the details:
As far as the story, we are told that in the past, the Predators used the the Aliens for hunting purposes, as a right of passage for the young Predator to become men (er, for lack of a better term). We see one such battle play out in an Aztec temple. Supposedly, the Predators were seen as Gods to the Aztec people, who built them their temples for worshipping and battle purposes. They showed some storyboards of one Predator defeating an Alien, holding its severed head in victory, as well as some boards where three Predator are overrun by thousands of Aliens, and upon realizing that they have clearly lost the battle, they activate their self-destruct. This is why so many ancient civilizations have been wiped out; Predator hunting failures. Flash forward to present day, where a group of scientists have found one of the ancient Predator temples under an Antarctic icecap. The story revolves around 5 "teenage" Predators who are set to undergo their right of passage with the Aliens at this newly discovered temple, with the humans caught in the middle. There was also some brief discussion about the Predators testing out their new weapons technology. The video showed one example, a modified shuriken throwing star which starts as a small handle with a trigger and expands into 6 elongated razor blades. This was actually pretty cool looking. Anyways, that pretty much rounded out the presentation. They quickly flashed some shots edited together from the two respective franchises, and rounded it out with a tagline, "Whoever wins...we lose." All in all, hard to tell too much about the final product from the small amount shown". Thanks to 'Agent G'. Take a surf to a french made site about ALIEN...now online and totally finished! Just take a click to planete-alien.net, thanks to Stephane! Merci! ALIEN Vs PREDATOR - Trailer, Preview, logo... Apple has an official website (with nice graphics) for the Alien Vs Predator movie, with a teaser trailer and behind the scenes footage. And one important detail appears:  The release date of August 6th, 2004.  The official logo for the film! I'll start updating the Alien Vs Predator and Alien 5 subsites with all this new information. And if shootings starts next week for AvsP, casting info should be filtering this way very quickly. :)
The ALIEN Timeline might be down...so the link on my main page has been switched off as well. I can't seem to find the new website address. If It non longer exists I'll use my backup copy as the 'new' timeline site. I'm sure it has just moved to a new home on the web...that site is too good to lose. New Estonian Alien fan-site As I've said many times before, one of my favorite things about having this site is hearing from fans from around the world. JV passed on an email saying that a brand new ALIEN site has opened, in the Estonian language! Please visit Charon Base by clicking here. Alien forum moved... I just got a note that the Alien Legacy Discussion Board has moved to a new location, http://www.alienlegacy.net/forum. It is now part of AlienLegacy.net, which is not yet complete but will constantly be updated. [Thanks to Helen for the update.] 
DVD section updated...I've updated the DVD section with various tidbits taken from around the internet... click here to check it out. AvsP - The special Effects From Variety:
Ridley Scott's Next Flick: ALIEN is coming back to theatres, and Ridley will also provide filmgoers with a brand new movie in the future. IGN filmforce has a few quotes from Ridley...
"Official" ALIEN website Although it has been over 24 years since the release of ALIEN in theatres, it finally has an official website....this website is made to promote the upcoming theatrical release at the end of October. Click Here to give it a visit! Ridley Scott Talks Alien re-release As posted online in the September 25, 2003 edition of the U-San Bernadino County Sun Website. [Special thanks to Dark Horizons for posting this]
Alien director Ridley Scott has sat down for a long interview with the newspaper the U-San Bernadino County Sun, among the topics are Gladiator 2, Crusades and of course Alien: The Director's Cut: Q: 'Alien: The Director's Cut' returns to theaters on Halloween. Does this mean the original wasn't your cut? A: I've never had anything other than the director's cut in any of my movies. The only pressure I've ever had was "Blade Runner,' where they wanted me to explain the unexplained, which is why we suddenly ended up with voice-over, which I always thought was unnecessary. Q: Have you added anything to the movie? A: I added 4 1/2 minutes of unseen material. There's more stuff at the alien's nest; you see where the crew members disappear to and you see their demise more vividly spelled out. Mainly though, it's an opportunity to reconfigure the negative digitally and get the bloody thing looking like it should for new generations that haven't seen it properly, i.e. on the big screen.. Download a cut-alien-clip! Thanks to alienexperience.com for posting this scoop: You can download a trailer for the upcoming Alien release and a Alien cut scene from IGN filmforce, or just take a click here. Enjoy! 
Ridley comments on Alien 5The dvdrama has a good interview with Ridley Scott, included was some Alien 5 comments: [Note, original interview was in French, the english quotation posted on Dark Horizons is accurate. Merci.]
Cameron & Weaver seen together As posted on AlienExperience.com, James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver were photographed together in People magazine a caption (dated September 12, 2003) stating: AP photographers snapped this portrait of James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver outside Hollywood's elite Calabash Bar & Grill. Eyewitnesses claim the two were discussing a screenplay draft of Alien 5, rumored to be Cameron's next sci-fi epic. Huge thanks to AlienExperience.com. more updates... I'll update the website more over the next week...mostly just simple URL, link, and spelling corrections. Thanks for your continued support! :) Over the last week the ALIEN Movies Resource turned 6 years old! Big thanks to AlienExperience.com... that site keeps on getting better and better. 
ELITE FORCEColonial Marines: Elite Force is now online and ready to be downloaded. This is a fan-film of the Aliens vs. Predator, and built enirely as 3D animation. It was created and undertaken by Paul Sach of Purity Animation Studios. I'm downloading the high-res version as I type this....just go to the official site to download your copy! Thanks to Paul Sach!
The Digital Bits
is writing the "Insiders Guide to DVD". Included in the book is "Part III - Inside the Alien Quadrilogy"
which is:
Click here for the full scoop, or view / Buy the book for under $13 bucks by clicking here Cameron speaks... James Cameron spoke with BBC1 about Alien 3 and T3...and Alien 5! The summary: Terminator 3 - "In one word : Great. There was a small part of me that hoped it wasn't good - but another part of me hope'd it succeeded. And it did. And I'm so glad it did. Jonathon's made a great movie. Arnold's in great form. I really like what he's done with it". If he had done it, would he have handled it differently: "Yes. That's only natural. I mightn't have structrued it the same, nor may I have ended it the same way - but coming in where he has, such a hard thing to do, and I give Jonathan points for it". Alien 3 - "Hated it. Simple as that. I hated what they did.... I couldn't stand Alien 3 - how they could just go in there and kill off all these great characters we introduced in aliens, and the correlation between mother and daughter. It stunk, but hopefully I'll get a chance to rectify all that". You mean the talk about him being tied to "Alien 5" is true? "To an extent. yes. We're looking at doing another one. Something similiar to what we did with Aliens. A bunch of great characters, and of course Sigourney. I've even discussed the possibility of putting him [Arnold Schwarzenegger] into the Alien movie". Thanks to 'Ryan'. I've added a wallup of old links to various Aliens Vs. Predator news on the Alien Vs Predator area. New French alien site Planete Alien is now greeting visitors, and is growing into a great alien website en francais. Visit the site and show it some support! :)
Did you ever notice...
I assuming that this scene is not from the movie, but a display of the cryotube and prosthetic Newt. Or it could just show how the Newt prosthetic was meant to move in a scene that was cut from the movie....any other thoughts out there?
New HALO Alien Reference
ALIEN re-release trailer spotted!
Hicks, Kevin and Drake...BIRTHDAYS!
Alien Fanfiction....
June 12, 2003
This sounds like a cumulative list of all the rumors of what will be on the upcoming DVD release,
but considering I have not posted any rumours on it, it is nice to have it all summarized.
With that said,
DVDboxoffice.com
has a mini-feature on the Alien Quadrilogy DVD release, including contents and an actual release date.
The release date is December 1 2003, however this is unlikely as it is not a Tuesday, and the vast
majority of releases are issued tuesday (why, I don't know.)
I've made some comments at the end, and take this info with a huge grain of salt until officially announced.
The summary:
Aliens: will allow viewers to choose between the Theatrical version, which has never been available on DVD before, and James Cameron's Director’s cut [Nathan's note: This is probably the Special Edition] Alien 3: Will include David Fincher’s 2 hr. 50 min original version of the movie, which has never been released.[Nathan's Note: (see below)] Alien Resurrection: will feature an alternate opening and ending (crash on Earth). And for the 9th bonus disc, which will include over 3 hours of material: Alien Legacy ( Was a free mail-in offer), Alien Evolution (BBC Documentary), Darkhorse Alien Comics, Darkhorse Alien vs. Predator, Complete Laser Disc features, so can throw away laser discs and have everything imaginable in this boxset. However, I don't think there ever was a 2 hr 50 minute Alien 3. If one takes into consideration the cut material, and re-inserts it back into the film (Oxen scene, superfacehugger), then those scenes won't fit into the finished continuity of the film. For example, the dog replaced the Oxen. Maybe a cut around 2 hours 20 minutes would be more realistic. Thanks to Stephen for sending the link my way! June 8, 2003
I just received some info from Adam, regarding the "Hidden" image (ALIENS DVD, just after Burke says "You know we
manufacture those by the way" when they are about to land on LV-426, there appears to be a screen flicker for
a millisecond. It is at the 44:57 mark on the DVD.) He reports:
Thanks to Adam! [for a big version of that screen flicker, just click on the small pic above.] Ripley, the Alien make AFI list On June 3rd AFI had a top 50 Heroes/50 Villains countdown was on CBS USA. The Alien monster from "ALIEN" came in at #11 for the villan, and Ellen Ripley in "ALIENS" came in at #8 for the Heroes list. I have made sort of an 'archive' of these lists where the ALIEN movies rank, it is all in the history area. David Fincher's Next I don't know the origin of this news, but it is great news:
It looks like Fincher passed up a movie to direct; Himself, Cameron Crowe and Lasse Hallström were asked to direct 'Catch Me If You Can' but turned it down, before Steven Spielberg took over (he only wanted to produce). Old tidbit on a Aliens Vs Predator DVDs (no joke!) Well, while not *directly* related to the actual production of the Alien vs Predator DVDs, here is a clip from an older interview with Van Ling, DVD producer. This is from the Digitalbits.com. [JohnnyB] Nice of you to be here, how exactly do you decide to become a dvd producer? DId you work in the film industry beforehand? Is there a dvd producing college :)? how exactly did you get into this job. And do you know anything about predator or the alien movie getting new special edition treatments (Peter Staddon hinted at them) [VanLing] School of hard knocks, baby! ;-) I kind of fell into DVD producing from LD producing... and my main background is in film production, so I've worked in the film biz for like 15 years. That, I think, is one of the things I try to bring to the DVDs I produce. As for Predator and the Alien films, I think Peter Staddon has a much better handle on their plans than I... but feel free to tell Peter I'd love to do the Aliens and Predator DVDs! ;-) Alien/Aliens Re-Release in theatres: As reported on Filmjerk on May 27;
FilmJerk.com has learned, through contacts within Fox Films, that the film will be getting most, if not all, of the cut footage restored back into the narrative. Final details are still being worked out, but our source tells us the film's soundtrack will also be remastered to take advantage of today's digital cinema sound formats, and will be positioned as a major fall release, to play on over 2,000 screens. Our source also tells us that, should this rerelease become successful, like the "Star Wars" trilogy and "Exorcist" rereleases, tentative plans have already been set to release James Cameron's restored cut of "Aliens" into theatres next spring. I've had the good fortune to see both these movies in the theatres, but fully restored and in fully extended editionsn will be a treat. (Oddly enough, the only ALIEN movie I have not seen in theatres is Alien 3....maybe someday...) Weaver comments on ALIEN 5 The Chicago Sun Times From April 22: Sigourney Weaver talked with The Chicago Sun Times Cindy Pearlman during promotional junkets for the film "Holes": "Ridley Scott and I have talked about it a couple of times. He has some ideas. If we developed a good script, I'd love to play Ripley again. I've always felt so grateful to Ridley Scott because he gave me my first job...The only thing I'm not interested in is going to earth. I saw that 'Star Trek' movie where they went to Earth and ... yawn. I think it's more fun to go to a foreign planet--especially now. Who wants to come to Earth now? Let's go far, far away! Fantasy is what we need!". James Cameron on ALIEN 5 The Houston Chronicle (Note: URL no longer works) From April 11:
"He's always been a futurist," said Bill Paxton, a co-star in Titanic and other Cameron movies, who went along on the director's 2001 ocean dives and narrates Ghosts of the Abyss. "Jim's the kind of guy who thinks in terms of goals that won't be realized in his own lifetime. ... "He's heralding the new technology, he's actually taking the time to bring these things on. He's more in the tradition to me of a Thomas Edison or an Alexander Bell." For the next few years, Cameron plans to focus on feature films. He will not disclose the plot or genre of the 3-D film that he hopes to start next December or January. Minus Cameron as writer and director, Schwarzenegger stars in the upcoming Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The movie was directed by Jonathan Mostow, assuming the role of upstart director taking over someone else's franchise, which Cameron did when he directed 1986's Aliens. Alien director Ridley Scott initially was not amused, Cameron said. The two subsequently have talked about doing an Alien film together, with Cameron writing and producing and Scott directing, Cameron said. David Fincher's Alien 3 -- which killed off characters Cameron created, essentially negating the outcome of Aliens -- has braced Cameron for anything that Terminator 3 might deliver. "I'm like so over that by now. You can't hold on to that stuff," Cameron said. "There's nothing they can do to me on Terminator 3 that's going to be as outrageous as that." ". This is just a VERY small segment of the article. The full thing can be found in the Alien 5 (the Facts and Quotes) area. More Cameron....more comments....(good ones!) From the April 9, 2003 edition of the Edmonton Sun: He also has high hopes of eventually returning to the Alien franchise as long as he can get the go-ahead to make a truly scary (and likely R-rated) film. The 1979 original Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, " holds a special classic niche as one of the great terrifying experiences," Cameron said. " And the trick (to making a new Alien film) is you don't go crazy and make a $150-million movie because you don't want to have to compromise, you don't want to try to do a PG-13 Alien that is all things to everyone." An Alien flick, Cameron said, ought to put the psychology back into psychological horror. " It's got to still maintain its roots in this kind of cinematic id. Ridley did it really beautifully. He just kind of put you into this Freudian nightmare space." For the FULL interview (mostly non-alienish) just click here. ALIEN Experience: New home, new site! An Excellent site for the ALIEN films is Alien Experience. Give it a visit and admire the great work! One of my favorite Alien sites to visit. Recent additions include Alien Quadrilogy and Alien 25th anniversary wallpapers. Go Visit! Alien movie trailer on upcoming flick? Cinescape magazine reports that the ALIEN 25th anniversary theatrical trailer will be attached to the movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" starting July 11th. Ideas for Alien 5 & 6 P.A.R.G. whipped together a 'paste and stick' collaboration of all the alien crazed fna who have posted ideas around the net about what the 5th and 6th Alien installment should be like: Alien 5 Plot: “The new LV-426 terraforming project has been successful. A colonist Geo gets a distorted transmition sourced from the north horizon & goes to investigate. He finds 2 giant alien spaceships in process of some type of excavation. The ships blast off before the Geo gets too close. He enters the excavation site & into the original 'navigators' ship. He comes to a large empty chamber with one solitary item in the middle of it. As he approaches it takes the shape of an egg..... The 5th Alien installment takes place on Earth. Earth is under attack by alien warrior drop ships (the race first seen as the dead navigator aboard the derelict alien ship in the original Alien movie). Their method of attack: planting Alien eggs around the human habitats! The Aliens create havoc as their numbers increase. Ripley wakes by the sounds of screaming. She is in a cell & a guard is fumbling, trying to get the door open. She will soon realize that her nightmare has taken over her home planet. The evacuation begins. This will lead to the final battle sequence aboard the Navigators ship where Ripley will discover the navigator is a fierce creature who’s main objective is to wipe out all intelligent life infesting the universe.” Alien 6 Plot: May takes place on the navigator’s home planet. They are the evil genetic creators of the alien race & must be stopped before they infest other planets/galaxies with the alien menace. The Alien wars are just beginning.” Great fan base out there! Thanks P.A.R.G. More updates on the way! Yes, I do plan to update the site more in the upcoming days. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for visiting!
A new addition to the Alien vs Predator movie news. Here is an exceprt from an interview with Producer John Davis, from the April 28 2003 Calgary Sun, by Louis B. Hobson:
Davis has lured director Paul S. Anderson away from the sequel to his 2002 hit Resident Evil. Anderson wrote the sequel to Resident Evil Nemesis and had planned to direct it in Toronto in August but has turned the reins over to Alexander Witt, who was a second unit director on the first film. “Paul has agreed to work for me on my Alien vs Predator Project, which I hope to put into production either this fall or early in 2004,” says Davis. “We’re working on the technology now for the two creatures. I purchased the rights to the Alien creature several years ago and I produced the two Predator movies, so I own that creature. “Before we can even think about casting, we have to work out a budget because Alien vs Predator will be a very big CGI special effects movie.” Resident Evil Nemesis is scheduled to open in 2004, and Anderson’s girlfriend Milla Jovovich will reprise her role as Alice. Erick Mabius returns from the first film, but this time he’s talking Jovovich. Fans may have to wait until 2005 for Alien vs Predator. The ALIEN 5 info will have to wait for a day...
A brand new Alien reference, courtesy of DeepERStar6. Click here to see the big list, and to summarize the latest contribution: In the XBOX game HALO, at the beginning of Level 3, you hear what sounds like Apone's line in Alien "C'mon people. The corp ain't payin' us by the hour." Another reference comes to us from Starflare: In the cartoon Johnny Bravo, Johnny is mistaken for the ship's captain and causes havoc, when the real captain returns Johnny says something like "Well what you gonna do, throw me on a planet with a huge terrifying Alien or something?" Now, normally that would not be a reference, but at the end of the show it displays Johnny dangling from some webbing and a polkadotted egg is in front of him. The egg opens up via Alien style and the legs of a chestburster start coming out of it Johnny says "down doggie, good doggie" (or something like that...) and if Starflare's memory serves him right, as the scene blacks out you can hear an Alien roar or shriek. Hidden ALIENS image? Okay, on the ALIENS DVD, just after Burke says "You know we manufacture those by the way" when they are about to land on LV-426, there appears to be a screen flicker for a millisecond. It is at the 44:57 mark on the DVD. there appears to be a hidden image within that screen flicker. I can't make it out, and neither can Mark, who sent the tip on the image. Can anyone out there figure it out? Please email me if you have any ideas. New ALIEN series forum The Alien Legacy Discussion Board is a new version of a forum that disappeared a while ago. It is very well designed, please The click here to give it a visit! (Thanks to Helen.) ALIEN: The Story In Pictures A great website has appeared on the Internet, and it tells the story of ALIEN (the movie) by pictures. Great quality pictures and very clean design. Please visit ALIEN: The Story In Pictures. 
Alien 3 cut scene...I was able to find a very small picture of a cut scenen in ALIEN 3. It is of Dillon giving his second sermon to the prisoners after a few were killed during the capture of the ALIEN (If you don't remember that part in ALIEN 3, then read the entire cut scenes section to get the full info on the scenes that were chopped.) It originated from a German Lobby Still for the movie, if I recall. Click Here to view the cut scenes area. Alien 5 rumors... An update tomorrow will contain the latest scoop and articles that have appeared on ALIEN 5. James Cameron is giving away info on his latest interview tour promoting 'Ghosts of the Abyss.' So expect the summary no later than tuesday! :) thanks for visiting. April 21, 2003
This Halloween... No Treats... No Tricks... Just Pure Terror. "A L I E N" Starts Friday, October 31, 2003 to a Theater Near You! Big thanks to Ivan for passing this along. From Filmjerk: 20th Century Fox will re-release "Alien" this Halloween. No word yet if Ridley Scott will release the Director's Cut format. Though it should be pointed out that the 25th anniversary is not until May 25th, 2004. April 2, 2003
Happy April Fools day. Of course, the info posted on yesterday's update (April 1st) is all made up, marlarky, baloney, bull, and not true. I hope some of you read it in shock...but with a smile. Although, I would like to see an ALIEN animated series... Enjoy spring! April 1, 2003
Alas! It appears that the Alien Quadrilogy DVD series is too good to be true. I has been cancelled due to lack of interest in the retail market (as the ALIEN Legacy series was released just 3 years ago), and the proposed Alien 3 'Special Edition' was unobtainable due to damage on the original prints. I had high hopes for the series. For more info, just click here. Alien Cartoon series in the works! Good news did come in today, as a solid source indicates that while ALIEN 5 is currently on the back burner, that a new ALIEN cartoon series is in the developmental stages! Although none of the major cast will contribute voices, it will take place in the dark horse era timeline, after ALIENS with Ripley et al on Earth and in Space battling the xenomorphs. One confirmed voice is that of Paul Reubens (Yes, THAT Paul Reubens) as a lead Marine....I guess the series it is loosley based on the ALIENS graphic novels? More info, and hopefully some character sketches tomorrow. March 20, 2003
Alienscollection.com noticed that over at Bob Burns's very fun and official website was a news update that included a mention of the upcoming ALIEN DVD series. He has " [...] never seen so much new stuff that they found on all four of the films!" Excellent news! Make sure to go to Bob's website for the rest. 
My very own Bug-Stompers!Thanks again to Alienscollection.com and Fiorina 161; It looks like you can own your very own pair of ALIENS Bug-stomper shoes...yes, the pair that Ripley wore in Aliens! And in 3 different color variations! Can anyone who speaks Japanese email me and tell me what is on the page? If I can read the numbers correctly, it looks like they will retail for 15,000 YEN, which is about $182.93 CDN, or around $128.05 US. Of course, that is assuming they are for going for 15,000 YEN. It appears a date of March 20, 2003 is listed on the page as well...maybe a release date? Very cool! I knew ALIENS fashion was the wave of the future! :-) March 14, 2003
Cinema Confidential had a small bit of info clip regarding Alien 5, and that Sigourney Weaver has confirmed that while discussions are on, nothing is planned for the near future:
Sigourney Weaver: I know that Ridley Scott and I’ve talked a couple of times because people are always coming up to me and saying “What about Alien 5?” In the current atmosphere where there is so much going on on earth, I can understand people wanting to see an adventure that’s far away and so I, myself, would love to go and see something happening on another planet. You know, out by Mars or something. But we don’t have any definite plans. I've updated the 'DVD' section to be split into the 2 different DVD releases for the Alien series; the 1999 Alien Legacy and the 2003 Alien Quadrilogy. Any new information posted about the Alien Quadrilogy set will be posted there. Click Here for the new page. :)
Alien Legend has updated with some news and a great fan-edit video. Check it out! Just click here. I'll be going through my alien-ish mail and updating with all the info y'all have sent in by Sunday. Thanks for visiting!
The possibility was there months ago...and now it is confirmed! Fox will be releasing a 9 disc ALIEN series dvd set! It is entitled 'ALIEN Quadrilogy' which will of course include discs for the 4 movies, and presumably a full disk 'making of' special (as was included in the previous DVD box set), and mabye....just maybe the Alien 3 pre-release version. With the official announcement, more facts will be sure to come in. Thanks to alienscollection.com and R2 Project for the scoop (go to R2 Project to see a picture of the advertisement for the box set.) Hooray! I forgot one thing: Thanks to Peter and Wayne for passing on the info also. :)
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