"ALIENS vs PREDATOR: Requiem" Trailer & Info

[RebelMan]

Rated "R" Trailer
http://moviesmovies.ign.com/movies/v...qthighwide.mov

International Trailer
http://media.filmweb.no/trailere/fox...6/ovwsnjx6.mov

Release Date:
December 25, 2007

Studio:
20th Century Fox

Director:
Colin Strause, Greg Strause

Screenwriter:
Shane Salerno

Starring:
David Paetkau, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Reiko Aylesworth, Sam Trammell, Shareeka Epps, Steven Pasquale

Genre:
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

MPAA Rating:
R

Plot Summary:
In this follow-up to the worldwide hit "Alien vs. Predator," the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage war in an American Midwestern town – with the residents caught in the middle.

[RebelMan]

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First look: "Aliens vs. Predator" is a return to originals' roots

By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

What do you get when you cross an Alien with a Predator?

Either a bad joke or a box-office hit.

Colin and Greg Strause are hoping for the latter as they tackle Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the sequel to the 2004 hit. It opens Christmas Day with the tagline "There will be no peace on Earth."

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Perhaps, but will there be a movie worth seeing?

The Strause brothers, video-effects wizards who are making their feature-film debut, concede that sequel-happy Hollywood turned the final installments of the Alien and Predator franchises into pale imitations of the originals.

And even Alien vs. Predator, which raked in $80 million, was born more of a popular video game than artistic inspiration.

So the brothers plan to bring the new film back to its roots — namely, Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, Alien.

"That movie was dark. That movie used a lot of rain," Colin says. "And that movie was scary. We want it more like the classic early Alien and Predator movies we grew up on."

Indeed, the brothers first saw James Cameron's 1986 Aliens as children, hanging out at a hotel room while their parents attended a convention.

"We kept changing to another movie when it got scary, then switching back," Greg, 32, says. "But we didn't know it charged us for a new movie every time we did. It must have cost them $100."

It will be money well spent if they can pull off the latest AVP, in which an alien that bursts from a predator's body, or a "predalien," leads the war as the creatures descend on a small Colorado town.

OK, so it's not Fellini. But the Strause brothers, who made their names overseeing the visual effects on such movies as The Day After Tomorrow and 300, say the franchises have a mythology that still resonates with audiences — old and young.

"There's a real history to these characters," says Colin, 31. "People grew up with these characters when it was a serious franchise. We want to make it just as serious and dark as the originals."

That means cutting back on computer-generated effects. In the first two Alien films, Scott and Cameron had six alien outfits. For this AVP, the brothers have just 12.

"You're not going to see 50 digital creatures running around," Greg says. "We want to bring the franchise back to basics.

"That's what made them so frightening in the first place."

[open32]

I actualy like the first one of this. It doesnt compare with ether Alien or Predator movies, but in its self it was still pretty entertaining.