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The first ever clip for Battle: Los Angeles shows us exactly how "gritty" this feature will get. The small snippet of character dialog feels supremely authentic (for an alien invasion flick) — but can your stomach withstand the shaky-cam? More »
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The next film from producers Bill Block (District 9) and Adrian Askarieh (Hitman) will be Alien Sleeper Cell, which is described as a new take on the alien-invasion genre with a Bourne Identity feel. Image via Worth 1000. [The Wrap] More »
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The third trailer for Battle: Los Angeles is finally delivering all the realism and gritty war footage we were promised. And it looks great. We truly hope the film itself is as good as what we've seen in the trailers. More »
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In movies humans fight off alien occupation forces, explode alien ships, and mind-control aliens with the power of love. How on earth can we think that would happen? More »
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Hometown heroes battle a mecha invasion, with a somber singing-robot soundtrack — consider our interest piqued in Battle: Los Angeles. Watch the trailer — you can't help but be pulled in. Which is probably exactly what the aliens want. More »
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Don't stare directly into these five new clips from the alien-invasion movie Skyline — it's what the aliens want! More »
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As the fall TV season starts up, shows are resolving their agonizing summer cliffhangers — but for some unlucky shows, that resolution never arrived. Here are the most frustrating "cancel-hangers," cliffhanger endings for shows that got cancelled too soon. More »
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Are we going to be witnessing the last temptation of Father Jack soon? Actor Joel Gretsch talked to us about fighting aliens, struggling with his faith, and being tempted by the fruit of another. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Is Eli Roth turning alien invasion graphic novel El Eternauta into a film? The new description of his next alien film leads us to believe it may be heavily inspired by the Argentinian comic. But if not, we're still excited. More »
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Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone. More »
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Apparently one movie isn't enough to contain all the ideas Roland Emmerich has for his follow-up to Independence Day. The director is planning to make two sequel films, and he already has a punny title in mind. More »
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In the latest issue of The New Yorker, an alien civilization announces its intentions to visit our planet. But they're not a benevolent race out to share their technology; they're actually quite passive aggressive and have designs on our gravel. More »
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Artist Franco Brambilla combines combines vintage postcards with computer-generated images of aliens, flying saucers, and giant robots, to give your next alien invasion the same quaint, cozy feeling as your grandpa's Alpine vacation. More »
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Hoping to spark their students' imaginations, a junior school in England staged an alien invasion, complete with a crash landing and the "abduction" of one of their faculty members while the children watched. What could possibly go wrong? More »
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Residents of Zagreb panicked last week when they heard radio reports of UFO sighting. The station’s journalists admitted to a War of the Worlds-inspired hoax, but claim this hoax held a deeper purpose. More »
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With Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion topping the sales charts, you can't blame DC Comics for wanting to get in on the action - especially when the plot of Secret Invasion closely mirrors two of their own series from the 1980s, Millennium and Invasion!. But do the covers of the recently-released collections of those two series go too far? Millennium's new tagline "Trust No One!" answering Secret Invasion's own tagline "Who Do You Trust?" is one thing, but adding "Secret No More!" onto the cover of Invasion!? That just seems kind of desperate. [Invasion!] More »
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If a 500 foot tall monster invaded your city, would you know how to stop it? Luckily, Wired has not one but two extremely detailed posts telling you what sort of military specs and maneuvers would probably work best against an enormous beastie. Of course, robotics expert Daniel Wilson already told us that we just need swarms of autonomous drones to do the deed for us, and frankly that sounds much easier than trying to coordinate a bunch of army troops who might be on the verge of whizzing in their camouflage uniforms. [Wired] More »
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These paintings from the PS3 game Resistance: Fall of Man 2 make mayhem and alien invasions look downright gorgeous. We aren't sure if that's meant to be the Golden Gate Bridge in the image above, since the structure of the supports looks somewhat different, but if it is... San Francisco looks like it might take a pounding in this sequel. We've got a whole gallery of this beautiful art below. More »
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So everybody keeps saying we're living in a science fictional world now, thanks to the ipod nano and the global catastrophes. So we're just waiting on the edge of our seats for more stock science fiction plots to start coming true. Vote for the summer-blockbuster storyline that'll be the first to become our everyday reality . More »
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A swarm of deadly aliens has attacked the Earth and eaten up everyone and everything on the planet, except for a small group of survivors. What do you do? Make a B-movie of course. Dark Swarm is just that: a CGI alien-infested monster movie, complete with an infestation of B-grade scifi TV actors in its lone band of survivors. They include actors from Stargate, Babylon 5, and Eureka, which might just slate it for the direct to DVD shelves. At least Christopher Judge can finally play a role without having that giant thing that looks like an @ symbol branded onto his forehead. [IESB] More »
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The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy of hopeless shootouts. Mass Effect is just the latest in a whole crop of disturbing, scifi thriller games you should stockpile for the long, cold months ahead. More »
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New Line Cinema announced today that it will be distributing Planet 51, Europe's biggest CGI film ever, in 2009. The $60 million dollar film features astronaut Captain Chuck Baker landing on a planet filled with 1950s-era aliens who live in complete fear of aliens, namely Chuck himself. Gallery of cute aliens after the jump. More »
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Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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