 Ridley Scott has returned to the world of dystopic sci-fi as executive producer on HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic series “Raised by Wolves,” and the show’s android-centered conceit has naturally raised the question of whether we should expect a new “Alien” movie any time soon. In a new interview with Forbes, Scott teased the future of the franchise, and said that a new film, while in the works, isn’t likely to revisit the worlds set up by 2012’s “Prometheus” and 2017’s “Alien: Covenant.”
“That’s in process. We went down a route to try and reinvent the wheel with ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Covenant,’” he enthused. “Whether or not we go directly back to that is doubtful because ‘Prometheus’ woke it up very well. But you know, you’re asking fundamental questions like, ‘Has the Alien himself, the facehugger, the chestburster, have they all run out of steam? Do you have to rethink the whole bloody thing and simply use the word to franchise?’ That’s always the fundamental question.” Earlier this year, Scott also shared similar sentiments with the Los Angeles Times. “I still think there’s a lot of mileage in ‘Alien,’ but I think you’ll have to now re-evolve,” Scott said. “What I always thought when I was making it, the first one, why would a creature like this be made and why was it traveling in what I always thought was a kind of war-craft, which was carrying a cargo of these eggs. What was the purpose of the vehicle and what was the purpose of the eggs? That’s the thing to question — who, why, and for what purpose is the next idea, I think.” Credit IndyWire for article  Action films in general often feature car chases. Those chases often involve the vehicles taking damage, like getting smashed, set on fire, crashing off a cliff, and sometimes blown up. Now the bad guys, and usually the cop cars suffer the brunt of this damage. The heroes vehicle more often than not never gets even a scratch. No sure you can think Fast and Furious right away as the laws of gravity do not apply to those films, but they are actually a bit more realistic than you think. Their cars are totaled all the time. Sure Dom has been able to rebuild his Charger somehow, but it has been destroyed a few times. All of the cars have, hence why they get new ones in each film. We can go back to the 80’s with the most classic of all cars, KITT from Knightrider. Now if you recall even KITT got smashed to pieces by Goliath and had to be rebuilt. So even KITT was not indestructible. Now we can go into the realm of the supernatural at talk about Christine, but even she could take damage. Christine was possessed or something like that but she was no match for a giant compactor at the end. She got flattened to the point she could not fix herself, then smashed in a compactor where she was just a cube. Sure in the book they elude that she was coming back, but guess what she did not. Because she could be destroyed. Now I know of just a few vehicles from film and TV that could not be stopped. By a few I mean only 2. I’m talking 2 vehicles, one car, one motorcycle, one from tv one from the movies. These two could not be stopped by any means necessary. The first which is actually the runner up is from The Wraith!  The Wrath, if your not familiar is a Street racing, supernatural, action film from 1986 starring Charlie Sheen. The story is that Charlie Sheen was murdered by a gang of evil street racers lead by a lunatic named Packard Walsh. See Packard wanted the girl Charlie Sheen was with all to himself so he and his gang murdered him. Unfortunately for them Charlie Sheen is back from the dead and out for revenge. He comes back in weird way though. See the car doesn’t rise from hell or anything, no, in the beginning we see 4 flashes of light that form the killer car. Yes light from the sky, maybe Sheen got the car from aliens, I don’t know. Anyway the light forms a Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor, which is still to this day one of the coolest cars ever. To go behind the curtain the MS4 means Mid-engine 4 Cylinder Sport. It was going to be used as a pace car that could go past 200mph on a 2.198 liter engine. Only 4 of them were made, and they became the car from the Wraith. It’s an amazing car. A 2.2L 4 Cylinder car that had HP of over 440. But enough about the making of the real car.  So Charlie Sheen comes back looking different and driving a dirt bike around town so he can kill the gang and get his girl back. He somehow transforms into a leather clad motorcycle helmet wearing version of Mad Max when he drives the car. See his plan, much like the plot of the film is as basic as it gets. He’s after street racers, so he drives up in his Wraith car and races them. See the gang races people for their pink slips. Through various forms of intimidation and good old fashioned cheating they are always able to win. That doesn’t work against the Turbo Interceptor. See the plan is simple. Race one of the guys speed out incredibly far ahead of them and then pull out and block the road so they smash into you. There car blows up get destroyed with the Turbo Interceptor simply disappears. A nice touch is when the bad guys body is pulled out of the burning wreckage their bodies are completely clean, not a mark on them, except for the fact their eye sockets are burned out  Now Charlie Sheen doesn’t always use this indestructible car to simply race, no at one point he goes all kamikaze with it and drives it into the gangs hideout. I must say they had an awesome hideout. A big garage with a loft in it out in the desert somewhere. As it’s a garage is loaded with flammable and explosive items. When two of the gang, Skank, and Gutterboy are hanging out there getting ready to leave to hit the beach The Turbo just drives right into the place blowing it to pieces, and killing them in the process. Once again entire building gone, car vanishes. Of course the film would not be complete if Sheen didn’t rack Packard in the end. It’s the same race as he had with the other two members of the gang. Speed ahead wait in road, bam! Bad guy blows up, car disappears. Luckily for Sheen the local sheriff (Randy Quaid) doesn’t like the gang and when they finally all end up dead he simply declares the case of the vehicular homicides closed. Sheen gives the car to his brother, luckily for him it can change shape and appearance, otherwise he would be looking at life in the pen, and leaves with the girl.  So to recap. The Wraith featured a Turbo Interceptor that could be blown up multiple times but never take damage. The car never got dirty, it always looked waxed and shined. It withstood head on impacts, explosions in garages, and the wear and tear of street racing on desert highways. It never had to be rebuilt, it was never damaged once. I mean it didn’t even have a scratch in the paint. Plus the fact it was always so clean really helps give it more cred. So without a doubt this is the most indestructible care in film history. However there is a vehicle from television that I have to say was more powerful. See the Turbo survived 3 car crashes and a building explosion. This next vehicle withstood even more. This brings us to the most indestructible Motorcycle in history as well as the most indestructible vehicle in history. I’m talking about the 1990 Softtail Harley Davidson From the classic Syndicated show Renegade that ran from 1992-1996. If there ever was a vehicle that could not be stopped it was this Harley. Clearly this bike was either an alien life form, or it was simply a supernatural force that could not be stopped.  Renegade starred Lorenzo Lamas as Reno Raines. As the intro told us each week “He was a cop and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder now he prowls the badlands, an outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a renegade!” The premise of the show was quiet simple. When it begins we meet Reno (Lamas) and his fiancé Val. Reno is a cop who is asked by his DA friend Harry to help him nail a group of dirty cops in Bay City. Reno manages to infiltrate them and gain their trust and in the beginning he tells Harry, and the Bay City Lieutenant, Donald “Dutch” Dixon (Show creator Stephen J Cannell) that he has enough evidence to nail all of them. Robbery, extorsion, murder for hire, drugs, everything. Only problem is Dutch is the leader of this group and springs a felon named Hogg Adams to kill Reno in his hotel that night to keep him from talking. Unfortunately Val gets shot instead of reno, and as he grabs her to rush her to the ER Dutch, who has stolen Reno’s side arm, shoots officer Buzzy Burrell, who was in on all the illegal activities and frames Reno as the killer. Now Dutch does not want Reno arrested because he will talk, so he plans on just killing him. He goes to Sixkiller Enterprises and hires Bounty Hunter Bobby Sixkiller (Branscombe Richmond in a show stealing performance) and his half-sister Cheyenne Phillips (Kathleen Kinmont) to capture Reno who is now looking to find Hogg Adams and clear his name. Reno does find Hogg at about the same time Bobby finds him. Bobby is able to capture Reno, and Hogg as well but on his way to turn them in is ambushed by Hogg’s biker gang brothers. They take Hogg, beat down Bobby, and kidnap Cheyenne. Reno convinces Bobby he is innocent, which as Bobby found Dutch suspect was not all that hard and helps save Cheyenne from the biker gang, gaining not only their trust but friendship as well. In fact not only does Bobby let Reno go he also gives him an alias of Vince Black so he can work for Bobby catching bounty’s. Throughout the course of its 5 season run Reno would roll into a town, stop a bad guy, get the girl, all while trying to find evidence to clear his name. And he did this by riding his 1990 Custom Soft tail Harley Davidson.  Now lets get to the point here. This bike was a force of nature that could not be stopped. In fact there was no way this thing was from our planet. In almost every single episode Reno would crash it. Lots of times it would be a simple slide on the highway or in gravel. Now, no matter how many times tis bike would eat concrete it never scratched. Every. Never a ding on it. Now I promise I’m starting small but I will get bigger. Reno seemed to hit a lot of small towns that caused him to ride on lots of dirt roads. Think about it, dirt roads on a bike going over 70mph. That’s a lot of dust and grime filling the air. But guess what, it never effected the bike at all. Reno would be flying down a dirt road kicking up so much dust it would create a smoke screen of sorts and at the end of the chase the bike was not dirty. Not a speck of dust was on it. It was washed and waxed. Yes, this bike could clean itself after every chase. Either that or it had a supernatural paint job to keep it looking new. Speaking of supernatural, in the episode Hard Rider, Reno and Bobby help a casino owner friend of Bobby’s named John Dalton (Wayne Newton) save his kidnapped daughter. Along the way Reno is attacked by a group of bikers and his bike is stolen, along with the ransom money, but that’s not important. The evil biker has the audacity to paint Renos tank, which was a pretty bad ass flame design. Now at the end the bikers help Reno and Bobby, they get the girl, save the day, and Reno gets his bike, which has no been defaced back. But when Reno sits on the bike, its back to normal. Yes, somehow the paint job reverted back to normal within second. They bad guys didn’t have it painted back to normal for Reno, he didn’t paint it back, it just mysteriously reverted back to its normal state. Yes, not only can this thing withstands scrapes and wash itself but it can paint itself as well.  Now in another episode called Stationary Target Reno crashes his bike right in the opening scene. And I mean bad. This things falls down cliff, every shot shows it being destroyed piece by piece. Its such a bad fall Reno gets amnesia and for a while cant walk. Dutch finds him, but he is able to escape with he help of Bobby who has located Renos bike from an impound lot. Now I know a few things about rebuilding bikes and let me tell you, if your frame is bent and cracked, and in some cases missing you aint fixing anything. This thing was smashed gas can with handle bars when Bobby found it, but in the end it was good as new. Now sure Bobby said he paid a biker to fix it, but he was clearly lying. You can rebuild something that’s not all there. No, Bobby must have seen this thing transform back to normal and got spooked. He used that story for cover to be safe that it would never turn on him as it was evil. I mean this thing was not only smashed and destroyed completely from the cliff fall but in the end it started right up and looked immaculate. Not enough? Well I have the icing on top next.  In the episode Hard Evidence Reno and Bobby are hired by Peter Flood (Steven Williams) a former army major who bevies that our government is housing a UFO and proof of alien life in an arm base that is set to be demolished. Reno infiltrates the base and assumes the identity of one of the demolition crew. He finds that the base is not as empty as you would think and that they really are hiding something. Bobby finds out the base is going to be blown up quicker than expected so Reno breaks in and in fact does find the crates containing the proof of alien life. He gets chased through the base by guards eventually making it to his bike. Problem is more guards are in front so he doubles back through the base on his bike. He abandons the bike by a stairwell and runs to the roof and jumps to safety as the entire building is blown to pieces, with the bike inside. Everything is destroyed, people die, and unfortunately Reno dropped he case he was holding thus disposing of any alien evidence. But guess what. At the end Reno gets on his bike and drives away into the sunset. Yes, you need no further proof than this. This building was wired with explosives, and by building I don’t mean a small garage, I mean an entire military facility. It is completely demolished, but the bike that was inside is perfect. He simply drives away later in the episode on it, and I’m also willing to bet is was washed and waxed as well.  So there you have it. The Turbo Interceptor from the Wraith may have withstood 3 crashes and a garage explosion, but the Harley Davidson from Renegade survived countless crashes, vandalism, dirt roads, cliff dives, and an explosion of an entire military base, all without a scratch. It is for that reason I award The Harley Davidson from the TV Show Renegade as the most Indestructible vehicle in history!  Having to stay home won't be all that bad for horror fans this year. I say that because this year AMC Fearfest will start it's all day horror programing bon October 1st so you will get 31 days of Horror. From the official website: In 1997, AMC launched Monsterfest, a popular week-long marathon of horror movies and thrillers that aired in late October. On September 26, 2008, AMC announced the launch of a new horror-themed movie marathon for its October schedule called “Fearfest” which replaced Monsterfest. AMC’s annual horror marathon FearFest is bringing the frights in the lead up to Halloween with 19+ days of genre programming featuring 80 films and 400 hours of programming. Includes the iconic film franchises Halloween, Friday the 13th, Leprechaun, Alien, and Stephen King classics. Full 2020 schedule coming in September Thursday, October 1, 2020 9:00am – Eli Roth’s History of Horror 10:01am – From Dusk Till Dawn 2 12:00pm – From Dusk Till Dawn 2:00pm – Dracula 2000 4:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 6:00pm – Bride of Chucky 8:00pm – Halloween (1978) 10:00pm – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Friday, October 2, 2020 12:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 2:00am The Amityville Horror (2005) 4:00am – An American Haunting 9:00am – The People Under the Stairs 11:30am – The Amityville Horror (1979) 2:00pm – 4:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 4:00pm – Bride of Chucky 6:00pm – Seed of Chucky 8:00pm – Halloween Resurrection 10:00pm – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers Saturday, October 3, 2020 12:00am – Halloween (1978) 7:00pm – Halloween (1978)  Miramax is re-teaming with director Guy Ritchie for the spy action thriller Five Eyes, to star Jason Statham. STXfilms has nabbed the worldwide distribution rights to the pic and will start shopping Five Eyes to buyers at the virtual Toronto Film Festival market. The feature will see Statham play Orson Fortune, a MI6 guns-and-steel agent recruited by global intelligence alliance ‘Five Eyes’ to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Ritchie and Jason earlier worked together on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Production on the globe-trotting thriller Five Eyes will start in Europe in Oct. 2020. Credit Hollywood Reporter for article  Cobra Kai the smash it follow up to the beloved Karate Kid storyline hit Netflix last week and its already their top watched show. Season’s one and two are currently streaming as fans prepare for the long awaited Season Three. To help celebrate Netflix has released a compilation of the best fight clips of Season 1 and 2 to get us ready. Sit back and enjoy.  With filming on Matt Reeves’ The Batman having only resumed three days ago after pausing 5 1/2 months ago, the UK production at Warner Bros. Leavesden has stopped again after one of the people on the production turned up positive with COVID-19.
Said Warner Bros. this morning about the situation: “A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19, and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.” No further information was provided by the studio in protecting their workers’ privacy. Unfortunately, this is part of the new world of shooting features films during the pandemic, and the extra precautions and steps that are required to continue shooting. Universal recently denied that a positive COVID-19 case during the UK shoot of Jurassic World: Dominion had stalled shooting, and the production continues to run strong on day 60. While four crew members reportedly had tested positive on Malta, where the movie is shooting through mid-September, they went into self isolation, with the production scaling back to a second unit shoot. Following Batman‘s initial shutdown, Reeves told Deadline he had a quarter of the movie in the can. That said, he delivered a teaser with a lot of stuff at DC Fandome recently for the Oct. 1 release. Reportedly, Reeves has another three months to shoot. Credit Deadline for article  Netflix has decided not to move forward with The Big Show Show season 2, cancelling its multi-camera family sitcom featuring the eponymous WWE superstar Paul 'The Big Show' Wight. Created by Josh Bycel and Jason Berger, The Big Show Show starred the titular wrestling sensation Big Show as a fictionalized version of himself, who after his retirement is trying to adjust into a normal life with his wife (Allison Munn) and three daughters (Reylynn Caster, Juliet Donenfeld, and Lily Brooks O’Briant). The Big Show Show premiered on Netflix April 6, and its lead star was quite enthusiastic about scoring a renewal.
Deadline has, however, reported that Netflix canceled The Big Show Show, along with another multi-cam comedy Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love. The shows will still air standalone Christmas-themed episodes in December, which they had taped prior to the pandemic. The Christmas specials do not continue the storylines from the previous episodes, and neither do they serve as the shows' finales. But they do provide fans a final chance to witness their favorite comedic heroes on screen. The exact premiere dates of these specials are yet to be announced. Credit ScreenRant for article  The Rock took to Instagram earlier today, revealing that he and his family tested positive for COVID-19. In the video, which you can see below, he reveals that he, his wife and his two youngest children all tested positive for the COVID-19.
He said, “I can tell you that this has been one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family. And for me personally too, as well. And I’ve gone through some doozies in the past. I’ve been knocked about and gotten my ass kicked a little bit in the past with some challenges. But testing positive for COVID-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries, or being evicted, or even broke which I have been more than a few times. But I am happy to tell you guys that we as a family are good. We are on the other end of it, we are on the other side. We are no longer contagious and we are — thank God — we are healthy.” He added that he wants everyone to remember to wear a mask, and make sure everyone gets tested if you’re going to see anyone else.  Scream Factory has just announced the full list of exciting and shockingly extensive bonus features that will be included in the Friday the 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition), to be released on October 13th, 2020 (see full list below).
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the original and groundbreaking 1980 film Friday the 13th, the 16-disc set is the definitive Blu-ray™ collection of one of the most influential horror franchises ever created and includes all 12 original films from Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema. The set includes the ultimate collection of new and existing extras. Along with a selection of new interviews, commentaries, and new transfers, are NEW Slashed Scenes – the long-awaited uncut gore footage from Friday The 13th Part 2, and much, much more. The Friday The 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition) also contains 2 bonus discs which include over 5 hours of new content, a new collectible rigid slipcover with newly-commissioned art, a new 40-pg collectible essay booklet with archival still photography, and new 4K film transfers for Parts 1-4, with Part 3 in its original 3D presentation. Additionally, each film comes with a dedicated Blu-ray™ case featuring original theatrical artwork. The 12 films included in this must-own set are Friday the 13th (1980), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985), Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993), Jason X (2001), Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and Friday the 13th (Remake) (2009). Customers purchasing the Friday The 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition) on ScreamFactory.com will receive an exclusive, limited edition 36" x 24" lithograph featuring new artwork from artist Devon Whitehead, and an exclusive, limited edition 24” x 36” Friday the 13th 40th Anniversary poster featuring new artwork from artist Joel Robinson, while supplies last. The Friday the 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition) is being made at a limited quantity and is available for pre-order now. Complete List of Bonus Features for Friday The 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition) DISC 1: FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) – R-RATED THEATRICAL VERSION Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono – English SDH
DISC 2: FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) – UNCUT VERSION Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 3: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 4: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 5: FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 6: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 7: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 8: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 9: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - SDH
DISC 10: JASON GOES TO HELL – R-RATED THEATRICAL VERSION Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 11: JASON GOES TO HELL – UNCUT VERSION Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 12: JASON X Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo, 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 13: FREDDY VS. JASON Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX - English SDH
DISC 14: FRIDAY THE 13th (2009) Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English SDH
DISC 15: BONUS DISC 1:
DISC 16: BONUS DISC 2:
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Carole Baskin is ballroom-bound. On Wednesday, it was announced that the “Tiger King” personality has joined cast of Season 29 of “Dancing with the Stars,” which will premiere on ABC later this month. The 59-year-old will go up against “Selling Sunset’s” Chrishell Stause, NFL tight end Vernon Davis, “Cheer” coach Monica Aldama, “The Real’s” Jeannie Mai, Nelly, Anne Heche and “Desperate Housewives” alum Jesse Metcalfe. “Catfish” star Nev Schulman, Disney darling Skai Jackson, former Knick Charles Oakley, actress Justina Machado, figure skater Johnny Weir are also part of this year’s lineup, in addition to previously announced cast members Kaitlyn Bristowe of the “Bachelorette” and Backstreet Boy AJ McClean. Season 29 will also be Tyra Banks’ first turn in the ballroom as host, as she replaced series vets Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews earlier this summer. “Dancing with the Stars” premieres Sept. 14. |