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Decline In UFO Sightings
Comedy Central UK As Channel 4 reports that the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (Assap) has announced there's been a massive decline in UFO sightings over the past two decades, The Daily Slap uncovers the top 5 reasons why the aliens are … |
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Review: UFO Can't Save Screwball Comedy Extraterrestrial
Wired News If Three's Company (with fewer punch lines) collided with The Day the Earth Stood Still (without the giant robot), it might look something like Extraterrestrial, the … |
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By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers
July 27 will see the US release of the alien invasion comedy The Watch, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. Empire describes the movie as being about four guys who are part of a neighbourhood watch group “formed less from a sense of community responsibility and more from the chance to escape their dull suburban lives and enjoy a little bit of a power trip. But they get far more than they bargained for when they discover evidence that something decidedly otherworldly is going on.”
Until now, the movie has been marketed under the title Neighborhood Watch, but the real-life shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida this February has now suddenly forced the removal of the title’s “neighborhood” element.
The movie’s “alien” element has also thus far been kept low-key, with promotional material to date playing up the comedy, while playing down the sci-fi. But this latest red band trailer leaves no doubt that Stiller and his comedy cohort will indeed be battling ET beasties in suburbia…
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By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers
As any UFO researcher knows, the abduction phenomenon is in no way traumatic, disturbing or profound to those whose lives it touches, or even to outside observers, but rather a source of great mirth and slapstick hilarity.
Recognising this, the best minds at Disney have decided to move forward with what Variety describes as a “long-gestating sci-fi family comedy” called The Pet, about “a man who’s abducted by aliens, taken to their planet and turned into a family pet.”
The script for the live-action movie was originally penned by Matt Lieberman (Short Circuit), but was recently rewritten by Tim Dowling (This Means War). Walt Disney Pictures and producer Scott Rudin have chosen Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) to direct.
This won’t be the first time Disney has explored the abduction phenomenon. It did so notably in 1986 with Flight of the Navigator, which was a thoughtful and emotional film, albeit fairly light-hearted. It did so again in 2006 in collaboration with Pixar with the short film Lifted, which encourages the viewer to sympathise with the alien abductor, rather than the human abductee; and yet again in 2011 with Mars Need’s Moms, in which emotionally stunted Martians abduct Earth moms in order to extract their maternal instincts for the benefit of their own babies.
Disney’s The Pet is still awaiting a release date. Sometime in 2013 seems likely.
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Dan Aykroyd: a comedy legend's spiritual side
Telegraph.co.uk Those road trips with Belushi also took in another of Aykroyd's passions: UFO-watching. His interest was first piqued as a boy, when he saw a cover of Life magazine showing strange lights above Washington. He says he saw strange lights of his own, … |
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Berlin film festival 2012: Nazi Sci-Fi comedy 'Iron Sky' goes down a storm
Daily Mail The Sci-Fi fireworks on screen are matched on TV and in the press with a new slew of features about the UFO fleet that Nazi scientists dreamed of creating to destroy London and New York as his armies retreated on all fronts. 'Iron Sky': Nazis Remembered Fondly at Berlin Film Festival (Trailer) |
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The Nazis who came from outer space: Sci-Fi comedy goes down a storm at Berlin …
Daily Mail The Sci-Fi fireworks on screen are matched on TV and in the press with a new slew of features about the UFO fleet that Nazi scientists dreamed of creating to destroy London and New York as his armies retreated on all fronts. |
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