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Speaking with Empire, Álvarez confirmed that he and Sayagues are working on the script for the Alien: Romulus sequel. He said, “We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters. I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”

So he's got the Easter Egg references out of his system then hopefully? Come on, a decent Alien film please! 🙂

[–] UKFilmNerd 2 points 3 days ago

I bet importing some of those titles to the UK wouldn't be cheap. Bollocks.

[–] UKFilmNerd 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Would the government even bother to check, for example, a Mastodon server with a thousand users? Out of interest, is there a summary or something?

[–] UKFilmNerd 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Are these the new laws that are causing small hobbyist forums to shut up shop?

[–] UKFilmNerd 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was carrying a hoover downstairs and slipped. The hoover fell down the stairs faster than me and stopped at the bottom obviously. The wire had partially unspooled and the very British three prong plug was sitting on the ground, pointing straight towards the sky.

Guess where my arse landed once I had finished slipping down the carpeted stairs?

[–] UKFilmNerd 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This was a project at Netflix for a long time, and just recently I learnt they had spent $30m on pre-production before letting the project go.

[–] UKFilmNerd 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I presume it's the fact they're all just made on a production line like the way all T800,Cyberdyne systems model 101 terminators all look like Arnold.

The fact it looks like Ash means fans are already suspicious of it's intentions, caring more for the preservation of the xenomorph rather than human life. It's also a blatant nostalgic throwback for fans of the original.

Personally, I didn't like the fact it links back to Prometheus. The whole film has too many Easter eggs which was too distracting.

 

Director Fede Álvarez, says he run out of time to get the look of the character Rook completed to his satisfaction. For the home release, he's apparently spent more money correcting it which according to him, leans more towards the practical animatronic than the CGI face.

[–] UKFilmNerd 1 points 1 week ago

I think so. 😊

[–] UKFilmNerd 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He looks like the smarmy evil guy that recruits Wade Wilson into becoming Deadpool from the first film.

[–] UKFilmNerd 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really like the original Mortal Kombat and am a huge fan of Event Horizon. Then Anderson stumbled with Soldier, which is OK. The most interesting fact is that die to an Easter egg, it is actually set within the Blade Runner universe.

Alien Vs Predator I really like, despite the alien gestation time being really short, but the film does contain the best shot ever, the look of a surprised predator. Always makes me laugh.

[–] UKFilmNerd 2 points 1 week ago

I like the way the final shot of the film has no context to anything else beforehand. At a guess, I reckon it's from a CG heavy final fight? Maybe a flashback?

 

A Queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon.

Starring: Dave Bautista, Milla Jovovich Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson Release Date: March 7, 2025

[–] UKFilmNerd 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I shouldn't be able to pick out the individual photoshop layers! 😄 The design isn't bad, it's just put together poorly. They clearly stand out from the background, the lighting doesn't match.

 

I don't normally post posters but I had to share this one released today. This was approved!? It's terrible!

[–] UKFilmNerd 2 points 1 week ago

I have an old DVDProfiler listing for my DVDs but I think it's incomplete. I emailed the company about restoring my login credentials but they never replied. I have the listing page bookmarked still.

For my Blu-rays and 4Ks, I use the Blu-ray.com app just to keep a simple list. I mostly use it when hunting for films in charity shops and to make sure I don't accidently buy the same film again.

 

 

Luckily, this isn't for grain removal but to fix mistakes that still bugged Fincher.

Fincher got together with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff and told her how AI was used to achieve the restoration. Fincher mentions the scene in a bar where Detectives Somerset and Mills chat about the case. Turns out, the scene had a teeny tiny mistake in it, but Fincher is known as a bit of a perfectionist, so it probably bothered him.

“In this case, there was this unasked-for and unearned camera pan where a character moved, and then the camera panned over to follow them but followed them late and overshot them and ended up seeing more of the bar than was intended,” Fincher described. A character’s jacket proved to be a real problem in trying to fix the shot, but now, with the help of AI, Fincher was able to get the shot he wanted on the new version.

“So we took three or four different shots from earlier, which had a jacket in them that we liked, and then we input that, and then we had it spit back out AI, and then took the background from where the camera landed and just composited them together.”

Easy peasy! Fincher seems to have also found other uses for AI than just the one bar scene.

“There were shots that I didn’t even realize where I would consider today to be unusably out of focus, and some of those things we were able to go in, make mattes of the section that we wanted, and use AI to at least get the focus in the eyes to be on the soft side, but not completely useless,” the director told Collider.

 

From Dark Horizons:

After New Line Cinema’s anime feature “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” debuted to a disastrously low $4.5 million in its opening weekend in cinemas on December 13th, and then fell a steep 72% to just $1.25 million this past weekend, the title is being made available on digital at home on December 27th.

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Not related to the animated series in the works, also being developed at Netflix.

 

Shit back to back with 28 Years Later apparently.

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