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He was one of the guys pissed off also about his early on killing.

What better to get back at em lol, you can find Trivia and info on the whole Pred/Alien series at this site

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ALIEN3 TRIVIA

* Multiple proposed scripts caused misleading advertising which implied that the movie would be set on Earth. William Gibson also drafted a script in which Ripley spent most of the film in a coma.


According to the storyboards, she would dream of half human-half alien
hybrids. Other storyboards included horse-alien and sheep-alien hybrids. Ward left the project after the producers insisted that he change the monks to prisoners and drop the wooded planet idea.

*Vincent Ward used his pay off from this film to finance his next, Map of the Human Heart.

*Some of H.R. Giger's design for the film involved a puma-like alien with claws. The producers also instructed him to do more sexy designs, so he created a drawing of an alien, which, in close view, had the lips of a woman. One of his ideas involved the alien kissing the victims and killing them that way (an idea that was later used in the movie Species where the main creature was also designed by Giger).

*$7 million had been spent on sets that were never used thanks to the ever-changing script before filming had even started.

*The original budget was $45 million which included Sigourney Weaver's fee of $5.5 million. The budget soon spiraled however, with first Renny Harlin and then Vincent Ward both leaving the project before novice feature film director David Fincher came on board. Extensive last minute re-shoots - especially after the finale was deemed to be too similar to Terminator 2: Judgment Day - ultimately pushed the budget into the region of $65 million.

*There was some question mark over whether the character of Ripley should actually feature in this film until the then president of 20th Century Fox, Joe Roth, insisted otherwise.

*William Gibson wrote a very early script treatment for the film. As Sigourney Weaver's involvement was in question, the main focus of this script was between Hicks and Bishop, two characters from Aliens. Many consider this to be a much superior script. The only carry-over from this original script, however, is the bar-codes on the back of the convicts' necks.

*There are screenplay treatments by Eric Red, David Twohy, John Fasano and Rex Pickett all freely available on the Internet.

*A cross is briefly seen on the planet surface to suggest the religion that some of the inmates have turned to. The model department held a competition to see who could design the best one. Four different models were created, and then David Fincher chose the version he liked best.

Production


*The production effectively shut down for three months while the script was undergoing rewrites.

*Although the alien that hatched from the dog was a rod puppet, early filmed tests used an actual dog in an alien costume.

*First-time director David Fincher disowned the film, citing constant studio interference and actually walked out of production before editing began.

*Cinematographer Alex Thomson replaced Jordan Cronenweth after only two weeks of filming, when Jordan Cronenweth fell ill.

*The creature that the alien impregnates was originally an ox, but was eventually changed because an ox was cumbersome and was seen as somewhat incongruous when placed in the film's environment. This sequence was later restored for the extended "Assembly Cut."

*To create a convincing corpse of the character of Newt, the filmmakers created life size mannequins using the molds of Carrie Henn from Aliens.

*One possible idea for the film included a chest-burster coming out of Michael Biehn's character, Hicks. A replica of the actor with his chest torn open was created, but after Biehn discovered this, he threatened to sue the producers for using his likeness without his consent, and the idea was dropped. Later, the producers paid him to use his picture at the beginning of the film for the computer sequence. Apparently he received more money for use of this one image than for his role in Aliens.

*The Rottweiler (from which the alien emerges) had to have part of his face shaved to indicate where the facehugger had gripped onto him.

*On the set at Pinewood Studios, a giant lead foundry took 12 weeks to construct and put the production way behind. Even with 6 day weeks and 14 hour days, the crew were unable to keep up with the schedule.

*Off-duty, Sigourney Weaver had to wear a wig as her then two-year-old daughter Charlotte didn't like to see her mother bald.

*Because of continuing troubles with the film, Fox halted production in Pinewood Studios in England in late 1991. The crew returned to LA, and an initial screening identified the missing parts of the film. A major part yet to be shot included killing of the alien in the lead pool. By the time of the new shots in LA, Sigourney Weaver's hair grew back, and she had an agreement with the producers that if she would have to cut her hair she would be paid a $40,000 bonus. The producers therefore hired Greg Cannom to create a bald cap with very short hair on it. The make-up process cost $16,000 and was very difficult and time-consuming because the hairline required the cap to be placed very precisely on Weaver's head.

*At one point, David Fincher was denied permission by the film's producers to shoot a crucial scene in the prison understructure between Ripley and the alien. Against orders, Fincher grabbed Sigourney Weaver, a camera and shot the scene anyway. This scene appears in the final cut.

*Director of photography Alex Thomson replaced Jordan Cronenweth three days into shooting. Cronenweth was succumbing to Parkinson's disease. He died of it in 1996.

*An advanced type of facehugger, one that impregnates Ripley with a queen embryo, was designed and built, but was cut from the Theatrical Version. It does however make a brief appearance in the extended Assembly Cut.

*The alien in this movie differs from its predecessors in that the organic pipes on its back are now missing and it now has a more pronounced set of lips.

*The crane that lifts the crashed EEV out of the water to dry land is a miniature built using the cannibalized parts from a Star Wars X-Wing fighter model kit.

Post-Production

*The film spent over a year in editing.

*When the powers-that-be decided on a new ending to be shot, Elliot Goldenthal had one night to come up with a new score.

*To create some of the wet sounds that accompany the alien, the soundmen went to Asian markets and bought animal heads and stomach linings.

Afterwards

*Hungarian title translated back to English: "Final Solution: Death."

*A series of Aliens comic books were published that were set after the events in Aliens, featuring an adult Newt returning to space with a shell-shocked Hicks to stop the retrieval of an alien specimen by Weyland-Yutani corporation. The books were re-published to accommodate Alien3, with Newt re-named Billy.

*With the release of the definitive Alien Quadrilogy on DVD in 2004, 20th Century Fox proffered David Fincher the proverbial olive branch and asked him to assemble and comment on his own Director's Cut. Fincher declined. He was the only one of the four Alien directors to refuse to have anything to do with the project.

*In a scene towards the end of the movie where Ripley and the inmates discuss the killing of the alien, several Chinese characters can be seen on the wall. 'chao gao wen wei xian' which translates as 'super high temperature dangerous'.

*The same "dipping bird" appears on the warden's desk as was seen in the original Alien.

*The tea glass that prison superintendent Andrews is sipping on is part of the BODUM series, a tableware manufactured in Denmark.

*Dr. Clemens's line about Furi-161 being one of "Weyland-Yutani's backwater prison planets" was the first time the name Weyland-Yutani was spoken out load. It had appeared on computer screens and props in the previous two films, but characters always referred to it as "the Company" when speaking.

*In wide shots, most of the refinery is actually made of cardboard.
 
AvP3 probably not happening....

Check this out:

The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Be sure to check back on Monday for final figures based on actual box office.

The last weekend of the year was even busier than normal between the five new movies from last week and three new movies added on Tuesday, but while Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem (20th Century Fox) was expected to destroy all competition, that's not quite what happened, as it could barely hold its own against a number of returning movies including a little underrated indie that exploded over the holidays.

Even so, Jerry Bruckheimer's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) remained on top for a second weekend with $35.6 million, a 20% drop from its opening before Christmas, bringing its total to $124 million in just ten days. In their third weekend together, the family film Alvin and the Chipmunks (Fox) overtook Will Smith's sci-fi thriller I Am Legend (Warner Bros.) to take second place with $30 million and a cumulative gross of $142.4 million. Legend dropped to third with $27.5 million and $194.5 million total, putting it in line to cross the $200 million mark by the end of the year on Tuesday, placing it amongst the Top 10 grossers for 2007.

After opening on Christmas Day with $9.5 million in just over 2,500 theaters, Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem (20th Century Fox) quickly tanked, dropping drastically over the next few days to the point where it only made $10 million over the weekend and $26.8 million over the six days, roughly $10 million less than the original movie made in its first weekend.

Even more embarrassing for the creature battle sequel was that Fox Searchlight's indie comedy Juno beat it into the Top 5 by a mere quarter of a million dollars, grossing $10.3 million in its first wide release into less than a thousand theatres, seeing a 200% increase from before Christmas as it moved up five places. The award-nominated comedy from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody and starring Ellen Page had the highest per-theatre average in the top 10 of roughly $10.3k per theatre, and it's grossed an astounding $25.7 million after less than a month in theaters.
 
Wow 10 million less man.. i guess the imprint of AvP still lingers in peoples mind lol, i asked a dude at work to come with me and hes like "i dont wanna go see that ****, i hated the first one"
 
Didn't we have this discussion already???

Anyone who has Milla Jovovich is a lucky guy...???

That's what was said? Right?

I liked Resident Evil...

And AVP was...meh...
 
I saw this (AVP-R) yesterday...and while I thought it started well, it seemed that the writers ran out of good ideas, or something like that, because by the end I was saying..."Meh..". It was OK...but like the whole AVP franchise, could have been SO MUCH BETTER...Oh well, I'd say after the apparent disappointing Box Office of this one, this will be the last...It's a pity that Fox didn't really get behind this franchise, it really could have gone somewhere in the right hands..:monkey2
 
I saw it today. The sound went out two or three times during it due to a "power surge" in the theater. I liked it. Yeah, it coulda been MUCH better. But it was better, and different than the first AVP. I really liked the "Wolf Predator". He was cool. :D

The new "Pred-Alien" was kinda cool too. Nice hybrid idea I thought.
 
Really? Sure you won't change your mind if it turns out to be an amazing figure? It is part Predator, after all. And Wolfie needs somebody to tangle with, too.
 
I will stick with my order for wolf, predadien and a couple of aliens....mind I see on ebay alot of AVP & P2 figures now starting to appear
 
In this particular instance I'm just going to go with my initial interest in the figures and not think about the movie too much. The creature designs weren't at all bad, and Hot Toys appears to have done an excellent job on them. My Wolf and PredAlien are already paid for and I have no intention of asking for a refund now. No plan to get an alien warrior at the moment, but it depends on what they look like when they're released.
 
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