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Query: When was Alien first released?
Alien was released on May 25, 1979 in the United States and September 6 in the United Kingdom. It was met with critical acclaim and box office success, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects,[8][9] three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright),[10] and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other nominations.[11] It has been consistently praised in the years since its release, and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 2002, Alien was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[11][12][13] In 2008, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and as the thirty-third greatest film of all time by Empire magazine.[14][15]
"Alien Days" is the first single released from "MGMT," the third album by MGMT, which was released as a cassette single on April 20, 2013. VanWyngarden explains the song as the feeling when "a parasitic alien is in your head, controlling things". The music video of this song was filmed by indie director Sam Fleischner, which was the second video released for the promotion of the album.
The first chapter was serialized in "Dark Horse Presents" vol 2 #4–6 (October – December 2011). When it was collected as "Resident Alien" #0 in April 2012, it was the 268th best selling issue of the month with estimated orders around 4,800 copies. Issue #1, released the following month, had estimated orders of about 5,700. The TPB was released February 27, 2013 with the subtitle "Welcome to Earth!".
In 2006, Sega struck a deal with Fox Licensing to release two new "Alien" video games on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. One of them, a first-person shooter by Gearbox Software, "", was released on February 12, 2013, in the United States of America on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows. The game is set between "Aliens" and "Alien³", following a group of marines sent to investigate the "Sulaco" who wound up crash-landing on LV-426. Sega also released a Nintendo DS game "Aliens Infestation" in 2011.
The special edition was released as part of "The Alien Legacy" 20th Anniversary Edition DVD box set in 1999 along with "Alien", "Alien 3", and "Alien Resurrection". Both the theatrical version and the special edition were released again in 2003 as part of the "Alien Quadrilogy" DVD box set along with similar versions of "Alien", "Alien 3", and "Alien Resurrection". A separate two-disc "special collector's edition" DVD of "Aliens" was released on , 2004, containing the same material as the two "Aliens" discs in the "Quadrilogy" set. Additional content in these versions included an audio commentary for the special edition featuring director James Cameron, producer Gale Hurd, special effects artists and crew members. The second disc included special features relating to pre-production, production, and post-production. The film was first made available on Blu-ray in the 2010 box set "Alien Anthology", before receiving a stand-alone release the following year. Fox released the 30th-anniversary Blu-ray of the movie on September 13, 2016.
"Aliens" received nearly universal acclaim. Test and pre-screenings were unable to take place due to the film not being completed until its week of release. Once it was released in cinemas, critical reaction was generally positive to very positive. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
The band released their first worship album, and fourth album overall, "Ardent Worship" in late 2000. The band kept much of their sound from "Invincible" on their next album "Alien Youth". With little time between touring and recording, Skillet released "Alien Youth" on August 28, 2001, which was the first album that John Cooper took on production duties. Before the release of "Alien Youth", Haaland left the band, and Ben Kasica took over on guitar.
Alien Breed: Evolution is a video game in Team17's "Alien Breed" series and is the first new title in the series since 1996. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade on December 16, 2009. An updated version, called Alien Breed: Impact, was released on PlayStation Network and through Steam on PC on June 3, 2010. In September 2010, "" was released on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC.
In 2013, National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) released the first wave of highly detailed human and alien action figures from the respective film. NECA's Reel Toys worked directly with actors from the Alien franchise to release realistic figures based on select characters they portrayed in the films. NECA has released seven-inch figures based on characters such as Corporal Hicks, Private Hudson, and Bishop. During winter 2014, it was announced there would be multiple figures of Ripley, Sigourney Weaver's character from the "Alien" films. NECA worked directly with Weaver to develop these action figures, which are the first to feature her likeness.
"Alien: Isolation" was first unveiled on 12 May 2011 when UK government minister Ed Vaizey visited Creative Assembly and revealed on his Twitter account that the studio was hiring for an "Alien" game. Although no gameplay details were confirmed, Sega confirmed to "CVG" that the game would be released for consoles, but did not specify any format. Sega boss Mike Hayes also said that the game was going to be "very much a triple-A project. We want this to be a peer to the likes of "Dead Space 2"." Although the game's name was anticipated following a trademark registration in October 2013 and some screenshots of the game were leaked in December 2013, "Alien: Isolation" was formally announced and confirmed for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms with the release of a teaser trailer on 7 January 2014. The fact that Sega's previous "Alien" game, "", received a negative public reaction did not affect Creative Assembly. According to Napper, the vocal reaction from the "Alien" fanbase assured the team that they were building a game with what the fanbase wanted.
With a heavy emphasis on the artistic aspects of computer-generated simulation, "Alien Garden" was described by its creators as an art game. At a time when the art game genre had not yet been recognized as even emergent, "Alien Garden" ranks among the very earliest art games. Indeed, its release predates Lanier's more famous art game, "Moondust" (often characterized as the "first" true art game), by a year.
For years, the government has successfully covered up very real proof of U.F.O.s. but when a group of Marines is dispatched to a deserted island, they uncover unsettling evidence: old films documenting brutal medical experiments on aliens. They also uncover a lone surviving alien out for revenge, and a military intelligence plot to sacrifice them and conceal existence of the encounter. The shroud of mystery is about to be lifted.The film has been released on DVD twice. The first DVD was released in 1999 by Image Entertainment, who coincidentally, would release the first two entries in the Xtro series on DVD years later. In 2005, the film was released yet again on DVD by Showcase Entertainment. Both DVDs are now discontinued.
Development of a prequel story began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron started to develop ideas for a story that would explore the origins of the Alien. In 2002, the development of "Alien vs. Predator" had taken precedence and the prequel project remained dormant until 2009. Jon Spaihts wrote the first screenplay for the project, but Scott then opted for a different direction and hired Damon Lindelof in 2010, to rewrite the script into a story that focused on the creators of the Aliens, rather than the Aliens themselves. The film, titled "Prometheus", was released in 2012 to box office success and lukewarm critical reception.
Alan Dean Foster wrote a novelization of the film in both adult and "junior" versions, which was adapted from the film's shooting script.[48] Heavy Metal magazine published a graphic novel adaptation of the film entitled Alien: The Illustrated Story, as well as a 1980 Alien calendar.[48] Two behind-the-scenes books were released in 1979 to accompany the film. The Book of Alien contained many production photographs and details on the making of the film, while Giger's Alien contained much of H. R. Giger's concept artwork for the movie.[48] A model kit of the Alien, 12 inches high, was released by the Model Products Corporation in the United States, and by Airfix in the United Kingdom.[87] Kenner also produced a larger-scale Alien action figure, as well as a board game in which players raced to be first to reach the shuttle pod while Aliens roamed the Nostromo's corridors and air shafts.[87] Official Halloween costumes of the Alien were released in October 1979.[87]
Although Sega admitted that the sales of the game were weak, Creative Assembly originally considered the possibility of developing a sequel. Later, it was revealed that most of the "Alien: Isolation" design team no longer worked at Creative Assembly, and that the company was working on a first-person tactical shooter based on a new intellectual property. In September 2018, a comic book sequel to "Alien: Isolation", entitled "Aliens: Resistance", was confirmed. The first volume is set to be released in January 2019. The same month, a survival horror indirect sequel entitled "Alien: Blackout", was announced for mobile devices and is set to release on 24 January 2019.
"Out of the Shadows" is the first novel in the 2014 Canonical "Alien" Trilogy of novels, designed to tie into the events of the existing film series. It was followed by "Alien: Sea of Sorrows" and "Alien: River of Pain". Originally slated for release in December 2013, the book wouldn't see release until January 28, 2014.
McGann was cast as Walter Golic to appear with Ralph Brown, his co-star in "Withnail and I". "Alien 3 Assembly Cut" expands on Golic's part in "Alien 3", with Golic persuading Morse to unstrap him in the infirmary when he hears that the Alien has been trapped. He knocks Morse out, goes to the containment chamber containing the Alien, kills Arthur (who is guarding the door) and releases the creature—which promptly kills him. In an August 1992 "Elle" magazine article, McGann said that Golic intends to release the Alien in the hope that he can collaborate with it to kill the humans on Fury 161. "Alien 3" editor Terry Rawlings said in the 2003 special-edition DVD release of the "Alien Anthology" that a parallel exists between Golic and Renfield in "Dracula"; both are deranged lunatics, who fall under the influence of a paranormal entity which they try to appease.
The first video game of the "Alien" franchise was released in 1982, based on the 1979 film "Alien". Subsequent games were based on that film and its sequels "Aliens" (1986), "Alien 3" (1992), and "" (1997). The first video game in the "Predator" franchise was released in 1987, the same year as the "Predator" film on which it was based. Subsequent "Predator" games were based on that film and its sequels "Predator 2" (1990) and "Predators" (2010). The first game to cross the two franchises was "Alien vs Predator", released in September 1993 and based on an earlier comic book series. Since then the characters and storylines of the two franchises have been officially crossed over in comic books, video games, and the feature films "Alien vs. Predator" (2004) and "" (2007). To date, there have been seventeen officially licensed video games released in the "Alien" franchise, six in the "Predator" franchise, and fourteen in the "Alien vs. Predator" franchise. These have been created by various developers and released for a variety of platforms including video game consoles, handheld game consoles, personal computers, and mobile phones. The "Aliens vs. Predator Collectible Card Game" published in 1997 and the "Alien vs. Predator" themed sets for "HorrorClix" released in 2006 are the only non-video games in the franchises.
The playfield above the player's ship contains 13 columns. Three of them, on the far left, far right, and in the center, are wide columns. The other 10, five on either side of the center, are much narrower. At the beginning of each wave, a flying saucer enters at the top of the screen and begins dropping small aliens into the ten narrow columns. The columns are open on the bottom, allowing the player to shoot the aliens as they descend. Each column holds a maximum of four aliens. If a column is full, the next alien dropped into it will release the bottommost alien, which falls straight down. Aliens can also be dropped into either of the two wide columns on the far left and right, in which case they fall straight down immediately. If the alien reaches the bottom of the screen without being shot by the player, it explodes - the explosion extends slightly to each side of the alien. Collision with a falling alien or its explosion destroys the player's ship. The small aliens are worth 20 points when moving (falling into or out of a column), and 10 points at rest. Aliens remain in their columns until shot or released; any aliens at rest in a column, either at the end of a wave or when the player's ship is destroyed, are still there when play resumes.
Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the first film and its later sequels, served as executive producers on "Aliens". They were interested in a follow-up to "Alien" as soon as its 1979 release, but the new management at 20th Century Fox postponed those plans until 1983. Brandywine picked Cameron to write after reading his script for "The Terminator"; when that film became a hit in 1984, Fox greenlit "Aliens" with Cameron as director and a budget of approximately . It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a decommissioned power plant in Acton, London.
 is the main antagonist of "Ultraman Saga". An alien that had destroyed and invaded countless galaxies, he formed his own army of monsters, using carcasses salvaged from the Monster Graveyard and revived them using Sphires he kidnapped from the "Ultraman Tiga/Dyna" universe. In an alternate Earth, he wiped the entire human populations and claimed the Earth as his own, with Team U and several children were unintentionally spared. He focuses himself on creating his ultimate monster, Zetton and even with this monster at its first stage, it was capable of decimating Ultraman Dyna (the first Ultra to face him via Arstron) within moments, rendering the Ultra petrified. With Cosmos and Zero arrived, Alien Bat unleashed both Gomess (S) and Gubila but when Cosmos pacify them instead, Alien Bat killed them cold-blooded. During the film's climax, when Hyper Zetton was eliminated, Alien Bat combined his spaceship with the monster's carcass, allowing it to be revived in its final stage. He was killed when the fusion Ultraman Saga destroyed Hyper Zetton, simultaneously releasing all humans that had been captured by the alien prior.
Acclaim's first-person shooter "Alien Trilogy" was released in 1996, and their adaptation of "Alien Resurrection" was released in 2000 as a PlayStation first-person shooter.
In 1994, Atari Corporation released the Rebellion Developments-developed first-person shooter "Alien vs Predator" for the Atari Jaguar, in which one could play as a Marine, Predator or Alien. Rebellion then went on to develop the similarly themed 1999's "Aliens versus Predator" for the PC. This was followed by, among others, "Aliens versus Predator 2" and the expansion pack "". In 2010, Sega released a reboot, "Aliens vs. Predator", a multiplatform first-person shooter also made by Rebellion and tied into the timeline of the live-action films.
"Alien vs. Predator" began as a franchise in February 1990, when Dark Horse Comics published a comic book featuring Aliens from the "Alien" series of films in battle against the title characters of "Predator". Both franchises are owned by Twentieth Century Fox. In November 1990, Fox released "Predator 2", and one of the final scenes in the film showed an Alien skull inside a trophy case aboard a Predator ship. Fox began licensing merchandise for the new franchise, including comic books and video games. In 1993, the first "Aliens vs. Predator" video game was released; "Alien vs Predator" for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Although it had been in development since 2003, "Alien Arena" was first released as a beta in August 2004, with the title "CodeRED: Alien Arena". The first stable version was released in October. Two single-player, campaign-style games, "CodeRED: Battle for Earth" and "CodeRED: Martian Chronicles", were released during 2003. Following these games, "Alien Arena" received greater development focus. The final upgrade to the two single-player games was made available on February 18, 2005. The "CodeRED" title continued to be used until "Alien Arena 2006" was released in November 2005, promoted as a "sequel" to the old CodeRED version.
The first game based on the franchise was "Alien" (1982) for the Atari 2600, heavily based on "Pac-Man". Another "Alien" game based on the first film was released in 1984.