Since the original Final Fantasy VII, released 27 years ago (…), the fictional play Loveless has been a part of the background lore of FF7’s universe. It played a role in the spin-off prequel Crisis Core and its in full focus during FF7 Rebirth’s play sequence at the Gold Saucer in Chapter 12.
Since the original Final Fantasy VII, released 27 years ago (…), the fictional play Loveless has been a part of the background lore of FF7’s universe. It played a role in the spin-off prequel Crisis Core and its in full focus during FF7 Rebirth’s play sequence at the Gold Saucer in Chapter 12.
It’s finally here! After being teased for months, our first peek at Fede Alvarez’s all-new addition to the xenomorph universe, Alien: Romulus, is here! While the 60 second teaser trailer embedded above doesn’t give us too much of an idea what the film will be like, the blood-covered pod and glimpses of our heroine clutching a pulse rifle make this look like a hard-R rated throwback to both Alien and Aliens.
Here’s the studio’s official logline:
The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
The film’s cast includes Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) and David Jonsson (Industry), as well as Isabela Merced (Madame Web), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (The Batman), and Aileen Wu (Away from Home). Spaeny has previously revealed that the story takes place between the events of the original Alien and its follow-up Aliens. Merced has said there’s a scene in the film that’s so disgusting that a lot of viewers will have to look away, so that goes along with the “graphic and gruesome” description. “Graphic and gruesome” is what we expected from this movie as soon as it was announced that it was being made by the director of Evil Dead 2013 and Don’t Breathe.
When the project was announced near the start of 2022, it was said that Alvarez pitched this idea to Ridley Scott years ago. Whatever the idea was, it stuck with Scott. So in late 2021, he called Alvarez and asked if he still wanted to make an Alien movie. Clearly, the answer was yes. 20th Century Studios division president Steve Asbell told The Hollywood Reporter that they picked up the project “purely off the strength of Fede’s pitch. It was just a really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.“
It has been said that the story Alvarez and his frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues crafted for Alien: Romulus is not connected to the other films in the Alien franchise. An early description said it will show us what happens when “a group of young people on a distant world find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.” The Hollywood Reporter noted, “as opposed to the other movies which focused on adults in corporate, militaristic and scientific roles, this now-ninth installment of the franchise will focus on a group of young people. On a distant colony, the group finds themselves in a fight for their lives with the titular alien, a creature known as a Xenomorph, whose race propagates by implanting eggs into people’s stomachs via face-huggers, with the juveniles eventually violently bursting out of the host’s chest.”
This new Alien movie is coming to us from Momentum and 20th Century Studios, with Ridley Scott producing through his Scott Free banner. It hits theaters on August 16th! Find out everything else we know about it right here!
Are you looking forward to Alien: Romulus? What did you think of the teaser trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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“Bustin makes me feel good!” That’s what Sony hopes fans will be saying when they turn out to see Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this weekend in theaters. A very ambitious follow-up to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with this one, Sony and their Ghost Corps production company, hope to spawn the series into an extended universe containing both old and new characters. You can read our review here, and to help celebrate the movie’s release, we were invited to take part in the film’s virtual junket, in which we got to interview stars McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon.
One thing that’s immediately evident when interviewing this crew is their unabashed love of the franchise. Everyone involved is clearly having a blast, and perhaps none more so than Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd, who, after sitting out most of the action in the last film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, finally get to slap on their proton packs and bust some ghosts. In our interview, Rudd mentions that no one brought their cell phones with them during the shoot and in between shots, they all just gathered around to hear stories from the OG Ghostbusters in the cast, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson. Carrie Coon also mentions her joy at becoming an official Ghostbuster (while shouting out physical media) while Rudd tells younger viewers which golden age comedies featuring the cast they should check out next.
And, of course, Frozen Empire also sees the return of McKenna Grace’s Phoebe and Finn Wolfhard’s Trevor, as the Spenglers relocate to New York. During our chat, Grace mentions how a classic villain, William Atherton’s Walter Peck, tries to sideline Phoebe, while Wolfhard talks about meeting the OG crew and being slimed by Slimer!
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire hits theatres on Friday. Check back later this week for even more from our interviews!
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“Bustin makes me feel good!” That’s what Sony hopes fans will be saying when they turn out to see Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this weekend in theaters. A very ambitious follow-up to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with this one, Sony and their Ghost Corps production company, hope to spawn the series into an extended universe containing both old and new characters. You can read our review here, and to help celebrate the movie’s release, we were invited to take part in the film’s virtual junket, in which we got to interview stars McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon.
One thing that’s immediately evident when interviewing this crew is their unabashed love of the franchise. Everyone involved is clearly having a blast, and perhaps none more so than Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd, who, after sitting out most of the action in the last film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, finally get to slap on their proton packs and bust some ghosts. In our interview, Rudd mentions that no one brought their cell phones with them during the shoot and in between shots, they all just gathered around to hear stories from the OG Ghostbusters in the cast, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson. Carrie Coon also mentions her joy at becoming an official Ghostbuster (while shouting out physical media) while Rudd tells younger viewers which golden age comedies featuring the cast they should check out next.
And, of course, Frozen Empire also sees the return of McKenna Grace’s Phoebe and Finn Wolfhard’s Trevor, as the Spenglers relocate to New York. During our chat, Grace mentions how a classic villain, William Atherton’s Walter Peck, tries to sideline Phoebe, while Wolfhard talks about meeting the OG crew and being slimed by Slimer!
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire hits theatres on Friday. Check back later this week for even more from our interviews!
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Annabelle Wallis – whose credits include Annabelle, Malignant, and The Mummy – has signed on to star in the sci-fi thriller Mercy alongside previously announced cast members Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, Variety reports. Details on the role Wallis will be playing have not been revealed, and the same can be said about Ferguson’s character.
Mercy reunites Pratt with his Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov to tell a story that is “set in the near future when capital crime has increased” and follows “a detective (Pratt] who is accused of a violent crime and forced to prove his innocence.” The screenplay was written by Marco Van Belle (Arthur & Merlin).
Coming our way from Amazon MGM Studios, the film is expected to go into production this spring and is already scheduled to receive a worldwide theatrical release on August 15, 2025.
Charles Roven, who just won an Academy Award for producing Oppenheimer, is producing Mercy with Atlas Entertainment SVP Robert Amidon, alongside Bekmambetov’s BEL banner and Majd Nassif.
In addition to the horror films mentioned in the opening line, Annabelle Wallis’s credits include The Tudors, X-Men: First Class, Pan Am, Sword of Vengeance, The Brothers Grimsby, Come and Find Me, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Tag, The Loudest Voice, Peaky Blinders, Boss Level, Mine, Star Trek: Discovery, The Silencing, and Silent Night. Keeping with the silence theme while also heading toward Mercy, Wallis recently worked on a film called The Silence of Mercy, which is currently in post-production and doesn’t have anything to do with this Timur Bekmambetov film.
Are you interested in Mercy? What do you think of Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, and Annabelle Wallis leading the cast? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.
As a Tom Cruise super-fan, I just think it’s fun to see that his The Mummy co-star Annabelle Wallis is going to share the screen with his Mission: Impossible franchise co-star Rebecca Ferguson in this film. My level of Chris Pratt fandom isn’t anywhere near the level of my Tom Cruise fandom, but I look forward to seeing how Mercy is going to turn out.
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Details about the PS5 Pro keep leaking all over the place, with us recently learning that it’s likely targeting a holiday 2024 release window and that it will apparently feature “PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution,” whatever that is. While headlines are suggesting this is “the most powerful console yet,” we might…
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