Tag: Aliens
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James Cameron Says ‘The Abyss’ Wasn’t a ‘Slam Dunk’ Like His Previous Films: ‘The Studio Wasn’t Terribly Helpful’
James Cameron wasn’t as confident staring into “The Abyss” in 1989.The Oscar winner explained during a Beyond Fest panel moderated by IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill that the underwater sci-fi action film was the “first really big, kind of mega-budget movie” in his career. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio starred as divorced petroleum engineers who are…
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‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Trailer: Asante Blackk Meets His Alien Dad
Aliens are taking over all facets of life on Earth, including marriage, in the final trailer for Cory Finley’s Landscape With Invisible Hand adaptation. The film based on M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name takes place in a dystopian future where the Vuvv have taken over the planet and brought with them labor-saving technology…
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Out of All the Horror Movie Mothers, This One Is the Most Terrifying
The dried-up corpse of Mrs. Bates sits in her favorite rocking chair, persuading her son to kill women he gets too close to. The Xenomorph Queen will protect her spawn by hunting down the sci-fi heroine who took them out. A Deadite-Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) tells her youngest daughter sweetly, “Mommy’s with the maggots now.” And…
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James Cameron’s Unmade Movies: 10 Projects the Oscar Winner Almost Tackled
Movies directed by James Cameron are the closest Hollywood studios will ever come to finding a sure thing. Cameron has spent over 40 years directing blockbusters, and the man simply does not miss at the box office. His unique command of spectacle and ongoing commitment to technological innovation have allowed him to craft a seemingly…
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Avatar: The Way of Water: Colonel Quaritch Should Have Stayed Dead
James Cameron certainly knows how to create great movie villains. Both the T-800 in The Terminator and the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day invoke pure terror, and the Xenomorphs have rarely been more deadly than they are in Aliens. While the first Avatar is often criticized for its one-note characters, Stephen Lang seems to…
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James Cameron Doesn’t Think He’d Make ‘Terminator’ Today Due To The Excessive Gun Violence
When you think of a classic James Cameron action film, such as “Terminator,” “T2: Judgment Day,” “True Lies,” and definitely “Aliens,” you think about huge, violent action set pieces with lots and lots of guns. Today, Cameron is a different type of filmmaker, especially when it comes to gun violence, and he’s not sure if…
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Avatar 2: Sigourney Weaver on Why She Wanted Kiri to Be Less “Neytiri-Like”
Thirteen years since Avatar stunned audiences and broke box office records, James Cameron returns to Pandora with his long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. Also returning, and reuniting with Cameron for the first time since the two worked together on the genre classic, Aliens, is Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver. Yes, her original character, Grace…
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Early Reactions: James Cameron Has Done it Again
Few sequels come with more question marks — or higher stakes — than “
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Paul Reiser’s Son Had To Show Him Stranger Things And The Boys Before He Was Cast In Them
“Stranger Things” hasn’t just been the breakout for its young talent like Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, or Natalia Dyer, it has also revitalized the careers of its older stars. Winona Ryder is consistently back in the spotlight for the first time since her 1990s heyday, while David Harbor went from a “hey, it’s that…
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Lance Henriksen’s Android Performance In Aliens Was Centered On One Simple Philosophy
Lance Henriksen is one of the few actors besides Sigourney Weaver whose character lived to return for another installment in the “Alien” franchise. Ridley Scott’s first “Alien” movie taught audiences and space survivor Ripley, played by Weaver, not to trust androids. Then, James Cameron’s sequel, “Aliens,” subverted that by introducing Henriksen’s android Bishop, and casting…