Aliens

AMC Fearfest '09 Video - Alien Creature Effects Coordinator on Working Before Digital Effects

source: blogs.amctv.com

Shane Mahan says the most difficult part of making realistic Alien creatures was hiding the hydraulics that powered them. A veteran of Aliens, The Terminator and Predator 2, Shane Mahan discusses the difficulties of making realistic looking creatures in "extreme action mode" and hidi...

Published Fri, Oct 23

Daily Scan for 10.21.09 - Reynolds Is Green Lantern, Orci and Kurtzman Rewrite Cowboys

source: blogs.amctv.com

• The New Yorker has posted a mammoth 12-page piece on Avatar and its director James Cameron, in which he laments that whenever he tries to do an action movie, people claim it's a chick flick. Interesting point: Strong female leads tend to classify your movies that way, for better or worse.

Published Tue, Oct 20

James Cameron Is The Tyrannical God of Pandora [Avatar]

source: io9

Regardless of your feelings on Cameron or Avatar, it's a fascinating look at Cameron's control-freakishness and the themes that have played throughout his movies. Cameron talks about Avatar as primarily a film about women and how men relate to their mothers or lovers (which is also how h...

Published Mon, Oct 19

Orci & Kurtzman Talk 'Trek 2,' 'Transformers', 'Cowboys & Aliens,' 'View-Master'

source: Cinematical

Offering a list of their favorite follow-ups, Kurtzman continued, "there's Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, Aliens, Terminator 2, Star Trek 2. What do all those movies have in common? Well, they're amazing stories all on their own. You didn't have to see the first movie. And, there was som...

Published Thu, Oct 8

Daily Scan for 09.30.09 - Rowling Encourages Witchcraft, Terminator Staves Off Bankruptcy

source: blogs.amctv.com

• A recent script review of Robert Rodriguez's Predators is making the project look good. It'll be a hard R, for one, and more like the original than the Aliens Versus Predator series. • Apparently, the Terminator franchise isn't really in that much danger: The Halcyon Holding Group is in be...

Published Wed, Sep 30

Do We Have To Show You The Money?

source: io9

I like that stuff. I like it a lot in fact. I read Cinefex every month. But CGI just doesn't freak me out or put me on the edge of my seat like it once did. I think one of the great things about science fiction movies that don't have a gazillion dollars to spend is that they need to make choices. They need t...

Published Thu, Aug 27

Your Complete Guide To Fall Science Fiction TV

source: io9

It's Back: Sept. 17 on FOX at 9 PM The darkest of the Gates tries out new characters, a new ship and a shaky-cam technique. The new Gate crew gets marooned aboard an ancient ship, doomed to spend their days traveling the universe, and never able to return back to Earth in their "real" bodies.

Published Mon, Aug 24

James Cameron Says Studio Wanted Avatar's Aliens To Be Less Alien

source: io9

We got a few minutes with Comic Con's king of the world, James Cameron, and he had plenty to say about Avatar's blue creatures. Find out whether Na'Vi gills are sexy, and how he fought to keep them alien. The Stan Wintson studio guys, who I'd worked with since Terminator, were brought in at that...

Published Fri, Jul 24