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Director Colin Trevorrow is swapping out dinosaurs for bringing in aliens for his next feature film. The Jurassic World filmmaker is set to direct an untitled conspiracy thriller about Area 51 for Paramount Pictures.

According to Deadline, Trevorrow will direct and produce the untitled movie about the local Las Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51 in the late 1980s. Area 51 is the common name for Homey Airport, a highly classified United States Air Force facility in Southern Nevada that many believe is where the government stores recovered UFOs and other extraterrestrial artifacts. Thomas and William Wheeler wrote the script. Trevorrow will produce through his Metronome banner, while Ryan Reynolds is on board through his Maximum Effort production company.

The untitled Paramount thriller isn't the only movie about Area 51 that audiences will have the chance to see on the big screen. In September 2024, it was reported...

Colin Trevorrow is heading to Area 51 with a conspiracy thriller he is producing and directing for Paramount. More details on the project below.

Colin Trevorrow is swapping dinosaurs and, er, bugs for something a little more cosmic. The Jurassic World: Dominion director has signed on to direct a new conspiracy thriller for Paramount Pictures, Deadline reports.

The project has no title yet, or at least one hasn’t been revealed, but the script is written by William and Thomas Wheeler. The two writers previously collaborated on the script for The Lego Ninjago Movie. Trevorrow will also act as executive producer.

Plot details are largely being kept under wraps, but according to Deadline, the film is “Set in the late 1980s, [and] follows [a] local Las Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51.”

By the sounds of it, there will be more human action than aliens running around, but...

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is trading dinosaurs for aliens as he is set to direct a new film focused on Area 51. Since breaking onto the scene with 2012's Safety Not Guaranteed, Trevorrow has become an in-demand director, particularly following the box office smash hit Jurassic World. While The Book of Henry performed terribly with critics and potentially lost him his Star Wars directing gig, his last film, Jurassic World: Dominion, still managed to pull in $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Given the billion-dollar grosses of his two Jurassic World films, he seemingly has been given carte blanche and is cashing it in for an original movie.

Deadline reports that Trevorrow has signed on to direct and produce an untitled conspiracy thriller at Paramount Pictures focused on Area 51. Ryan Reynolds's production company, Maximum Effort, is producing the untitled project, with Reynolds receiving an executive producer credit. The film...

On his upcoming album, Gabito Ballesteros is looking for old-school romance — and he’s not doing it alone. Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal the all-star lineup featured on the Mexican singer’s upcoming album, Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas.

The record will include collaborations Mexican music stars such as Carin Leon on “Regalo de Dios,” Christian Nodal on “Qué Vegas Hago,” and Natanael Cano on “Dosis de Amor” and Presidente, which also features Luis R. Conriquiez. He’ll also team up with reggaeton icon J Balvin on “La Troka.”

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Starting on November 23, fans can immerse themselves in the world of artist Masato Hisa. The manga creator behind Nobunagun , the Batman Ninja manga adaptation , Jabberwocky and many more action-packed titles will host a month-long exhibition featuring his iconic artwork. Masato Hisa Exhibition -Ride On Amazing Time- will feature illustrations for Hisa's two current works, Kamuya Ride and the Mirrorman anniversary project Mirrorman 2D . Fans can also peruse art from his 2011 manga Area 51 , as well as his monster designs for Kamen Rider Revice and the Super Sentai series Ryusoulger . Merch will also be available at the exhibition, including keychains, shirts, standees and mugs: Related: Stars Wars: Visions Returns for Volume 3 with Trigger, Wit Studio and More The exhibition will run from November 23 to December 24 at Osaka's Bear Trap Gallery. Then from January 4-26, 2025, a joint exhibition will open featuring the works of Masato Hisa alongside Shigurui: Death Frenzy and Apocalypse Zero creator Takayuki Yamaguchi.

Though Ted Lasso is a beloved and acclaimed series for many, the third and (so far) last season of the hit sports comedy-drama remains polarizing for some fans. However, its lead star believes much of the criticism aimed at Season 3 was unwarranted, accusing the show's detractors of watching something they "clearly don't understand."

Speaking with TVLine, Ted Lasso star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis addressed fan criticism regarding Season 3, including complaints about the core cast members being split into different storylines, leading to unfocused narratives and unresolved subplots. According to Sudeikis, Season 3 was set up to make every audience member become an increasingly "active participant" and pique their curiosity.

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As Ted Lasso fans await whether the Apple TV+ series will return for another season, one of the hit sports comedy-drama show's top names has landed his next role. Series fan-favorite Phil Dunster joins an upcoming comedy starring The Office alum, Steve Carell.

According to Variety, Dunster will reunite with Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) for the untitled comedy starring Carell, which was picked up by HBO last May. The upcoming series was co-written by Lawrence and Scrubs co-executive producer Matt Tarses. Lawrence and Tarses are executive producers alongside Carell, with Warner Bros. Television as the distributing studio.

Related 'I Will Not Be Showing Up:' Steve Carell Opts Out of The Office Reboot

The actor does not plan to reprise his role as Dunder Mifflin Paper Company manager Michael Scott in the new series.

Carell's upcoming half-hour series was given a 10-episode order and is a single-camera show. According to the official logline,...

If you’ve been keeping up with Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, you know it’s one wild and bumpy ride. For those of us invested in the big screen’s only officially Spidey-adjacent anti-hero, Eddie Brock, the past few years have brought mixed emotions. Sony owns the rights to a massive Spider-Man gallery of characters. Still, they can’t exactly bring Spider-Man himself into their solo adventures, so we’ve been watching them piece together a somewhat awkward “Sony-Verse” since 2018, all while the MCU does its own thing with Peter Parker.

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As a result, Sony has to balance its films with heavy hints that a certain web-slinger might be out there somewhere – but he’s not coming through that door anytime soon. In this slightly messy context, we have three Venom movies so far, with each one taking a new shot at...

The desire to blend reality and fiction in film predates the Found Footage genre by literal decades, with classics like The Legend of Boggy Creek and even the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre dipping their toes into documentary-inspired filmmaking long before in-universe-cameras became popular.

Of course, it was only after The Blair Witch Project that creators would realize both the creative and financial potential of making movies like this – and when it comes to lucrative Pov thrills, very few could compete with Oren Peli and his DIY Paranormal Activity franchise. For over a decade, these films dominated the box-office with formulaic yet consistently entertaining scares made on a budget, with their success allowing the programmer-turned-filmmaker to invest in other spooky projects. And while I’ve already covered Peli’s over-hated Area 51 on a previous edition of The Silver Lining, today we’ll be discussing one of his most unique...

Juno Temple has been nominated for four Emmy Awards in a row for her work on Ted Lasso and Fargo, but there was one role she wanted, but didnt land. While speaking with Interview Magazine, Temple, who is currently starring as Dr. Teddy Paine in Venom: The Last Dance, lost out on the starring role in a Tim Burton movie.

Temple revealed she was rejected for the role of Alice in the 2010 Tim Burton / Disney movie Alice in Wonderland, a part that went to Mia Wasikowska, who played Alice in both that film and its 2016 sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass.

The first Alice in Wonderland, made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office and starred Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway.

Related Ted Lasso and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fan Favorites to Lead Area 51 Movie

The indie dramedy, Hello Out There, is...

Everyone’s favorite Found Footage Horror Anthology is back for another selection of shaky scam scares with V/H/S/Beyond. Celebrating its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024 before its streaming premiere via Shudder on Oct 4th, the annual offering of bite-sized horror stories returns with a new focus that’s more serious and timely than ever. A subject that has occupied the minds of people the world over, and quickly become the #1 key issue in the US Presidential election: UFOs...

Exclusive: CBS is advancing the development of two single-camera comedy projects, Dmv, from the 9Jkl team of co-creator/showrunner Dana Klein, Kapital Entertainment and TrillTV, and Eternally Yours (working title), from Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, creators/showrunners of the CBS version of Ghosts, and The Tannenbaum Company.

The network has given a pilot order to Dmv and has commissioned a development room for Eternally Yours, both produced by CBS Studios. Port and Wiseman, who have been under an overall deal at CBS Studios since the breakout success of Ghosts, are staying in the supernatural comedy space with Eternally Yours, which revolves around a family of vampires.

The orders are in line with comments CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach made in January and reiterated in June when she said she was expecting to pick up some development rooms and “potentially even a comedy pilot or two” over the summer.

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Exclusive: Jon Koa is stepping down as EVP Comedy Development for CBS after three years. He will not be replaced, but that is not a sign that CBS, which has deep comedy traditions, is pulling away from the genre.

As Deadline reported in January, CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach and current Paramount Global co-ceo, CBS President and CEO George Cheeks, had given the network’s development strategy a careful examination.

That review already resulted in a switch to long-term development. Now, CBS also is streamlining all scripted program development under EVP Drama Development Yelena Chak, who will also oversee comedy development in her new role as EVP Scripted Development, with the comedy team reporting to her. There will be no designated heads of comedy and drama going forward.

Amid a wholesale shift to streaming, there has been an ongoing consolidation of the broadcast development executive ranks. CBS is the only...

Acclaimed horror director James Wan is dipping his toes into the comedy genre by producing a new half-hour sitcom about aliens for CBS. Wan is, of course, the director of such notable horror hits as Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, and Malignant. While he hasnt directed anything since 2023s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Wan has been staying busy behind the scenes producing the upcoming Stephen King adaptations Salems Lot and The Monkey, as well as the sequel to the 2021 video game adaptation, Mortal Kombat.

Per Deadline, Wan will produce the new sitcom, titled Area 51, through his Atomic Monster banner, which has also had a hand in producing such TV shows as MacGyver, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Archive 81. Bringing the new sitcom to life are God Friended Me creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, and Laura Moran, who previously served as writer and producer on another CBS hit,...

CBS is headed to the infamous “Area 51” with an upcoming single-camera comedy that’s being produced by James Wan’s company Atomic Monster, Deadline reports this week.

Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt (“God Friended Me”) are behind the series for CBS.

“Written and executive produced by Lilien, Wynbrandt and Laura Moran, “Area 51″ follows the humans and Aliens that work together at the country’s most mysterious place.”

Deadline notes in their exclusive report this morning, “The half-hour workplace comedy, now in development, is single-camera, indicating that CBS continues to opportunistically take shots in the single-camera comedy space where it has had a lot of success with the recently departed juggernaut Young Sheldon and ongoing hit Ghosts.”

James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett produce for Atomic Monster.

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Quantum Leap ended its run after two seasons on NBC, but its developers have found their next television series project to keep them busy. The show will be a workplace comedy series set in Area 51.

Per Deadline, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are partnering up to develop the new series with Laura Moran (The Neighborhood), James Wan's Atomic Monster, and CBS Studios. Dubbed Area 51, the series will be a single-camera, half-hour workplace comedy that "follows the humans and Aliens that work together at the country's most mysterious place." Lilien, Wyndbrandt, and Moran are writing the series, and all three will executive produce with Atomic Monster's Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett.

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Lilien and Wyndbrandt prevouisly developed and...

Exclusive: God Friended Me creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are returning to CBS, teaming with the former The Neighborhood writer-producer Laura Moran, James Wan’s Atomic Monster and CBS Studios for Area 51.

The half-hour workplace comedy, now in development, is single-camera, indicating that CBS continues to opportunistically take shorts in the single-camera comedy space where it has had a lot of success with the recently departed juggernaut Young Sheldon and ongoing hit Ghosts.

Last year, CBS ordered only multi-camera comedy pilots, and its two new comedy series for next season are both multi-cam, Poppa’s House and the Young Sheldon spinoff Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

Multi-camera comedies are cheaper to produce, making them attractive for broadcast networks as budgets get squeezed amid declining linear ratings. For studios, broadcast single-camera comedies are hard to justify financially because of their higher cost and depressed network license fees.

Deadline recently asked CBS...

Following the massive success of “Dune: Part Two,” director Denis Villeneuve may have found his next project.

The filmmaker is in discussion to reunite with Legendary for an adaptation of Annie Jacobsen’s Pulitzer Prize finalist “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” Variety has confirmed. Legendary also confirmed that it is working with Villeneuve to develop a third “Dune” film.

Legendary optioned the feature film rights to Jacobsen’s nonfiction book; Villeneuve is currently in talks with the studio to produce, adapt and/or director. His producing partner Tanya Lapointe would also be a part of the project.

Released on March 26, Jacobsen’s book “explores a ticking-clock scenario about what would happen in the event of a nuclear war, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who built the weapons and have been privy to the response plans and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made.

Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Today we have this year’s edition, as voted on by more than 375 film executives.

Topping the 2023 edition is Travis Braun’s Bad Boy, which follows a rescue dog who suspects his loving new owner is a serial killer. Other scripts include The Great Pretender, a drama which imagines the kidnapping of Tom Hanks; the Super Bowl-set sniper drama The Nest; the Area 51 thriller 10/24/02; a Hans Christian Andersen meets Charles Dickens fantasy; plus films about Patsy Cline, Didier Drogba, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan, Ftx’s downfall, and more.

See the list below via Deadline (and Pdf here), ranked from top to bottom by number of votes.

Aliens are hot right now – don’t miss Hulu’s No One Will Save You, for starters! – and writers David Matalon (Totally Killer) and Matthew Altman (Feed the Devil) just sold their own take on the sub-genre. Deadline reports today that The Hideaway Entertainment has acquired the rights to a “high concept” spec script from the duo, which is titled Level Up.

The project is being described as “a sci-fi action comedy.”

Deadline details, “Level Up is about a man who wakes up bound and blindfolded in a top-secret facility deep beneath Area 51, soon discovering that he has amazing but inexplicable new abilities. His only hope to escape is the alien he’s imprisoned with… and she hates humans.

“But as they navigate their way out, their unconventional alliance becomes the key to saving the world from an impending global catastrophe.”

Jonathan Gray and Matthew Rhodes will produce on behalf of Hideaway,...

Paranormal Activity’s impact on horror and the moviegoing landscape in general was considerable. With a clever marketing campaign that focused on audience reaction and encouraged prospective viewers to request their local theater play the movie, it created massive buzz and brought the found footage format back into vogue. It also propelled a former software programmer to great success as an up-and-coming director. Over the next few years, Oren Peli would enjoy his newfound status by producing a number of well-known horror movies, including Paranormal Activity sequels, the Insidious movies, and Chernobyl Diaries. It would take a number of years before he got back into the director’s chair, but when he did, it was for something grander and more ambitious than his debut picture: 2015's Area 51.

Has any filmmaker had as much of an impact on cinema and pop culture at large as Steven Spielberg in an autobiographical drama which underpins the dramatic threads of so many of his works.

There’s the impossible question though: among his many masterful works, which one stands tallest? Team Empire gathered to vote for the best Steven Spielberg films, picking from a catalogue packed with unimpeachable masterpieces. But a consensus was eventually reached – and you can read the official ordering below. Ranked order aside, taking an overview of his astonishing career is another reminder of just how lucky we are to have him.

34) 1941 (1979)

“Steve’s direction was brilliant,” George Lucas march, and is the answer to the pub question: “Which film features Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Mickey Rourke?” But it’s also monotonal, repetitive and, as critic Pauline Kael once eloquently put it, like “having your head stuck...

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Oren Peli’s sophomore effort, Area 51. The rise of Oren Peli is one of the most surprising success stories in Hollywood. The Israeli programmer turned filmmaker originally invested a mere 15,000 into the production of the first Paranormal Activity, which ended up exploding in popularity […]

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Cleopatra Entertainment acquires Escape From Area 51 from Girls and Corpses Films Starring Donna D’Errico, Chris Browning and Frankie Sixx To Be Released August 31st Cleopatra Entertainment has released its first teaser clip for their August 31st release of the Sci-Fi comedy Escape From Area 51. The clip features Donna D’Errico (Baywatch) – a …

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The American Society of Cinematographers is announcing its winners today for the 35th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards this afternoon in the feature film, documentary and television cinematography categories.

They represent the organization’s picks for the most compelling visual filmmaking over the past 14 months.

The Society is bestowing the ASC Board of Governors Award to filmmaker Sophia Coppola for her contributions to cinema through her body of work. It is the only ASC Award not given to a cinematographer and is reserved for industry stalwarts who have been champions for directors of photography and the visual art form.

The Michael Chapman & Allen Daviau Student Heritage Award is being awarded to Ai Chung for A Young Tough in the Michael Chapman Graduate Category and Elias Ginsberg for Milk Teeth in the Allen Daviau Undergraduate Category.

The virtual ceremony is being streamed live via American Cinematographer’s Facebook page from the historic ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood.

Frankie Sixx (daughter of Motley Crue rocker Nikki Sixx and Baywatch star Donna D’Errico) Makes Her Film Debut Cleopatra Entertainment Acquires English Speaking Rights To “Escape From Area 51” From Girls And Corpses Films Sci-Fi Comedy debuts domestically Summer 2021 Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American, UK, New Zealand, Australian, and South African distribution …

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Earlier today, the American Society of Cinematographers revealed their nominations, hoping to clear up who might be Oscar nominees next week. Well, they definitely confirmed that Erik Messerschmidt, Phedon Papamichael, Joshua James Richards, and Dariusz Wolski are very likely to hear their names called on Monday morning. As for the final slot, they went with Newton Thomas Sigel, but for Cherry, not Da 5 Bloods, as many expected. Messerchmidt (Mank), Papamichael (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Richards (Nomadland), and Wolski (News of the World) feel safe. As for the final spot at the Academy Awards in Best Cinematography, anything is possible, so sit tight… Here are the ASC nominees for this year: Feature Film Erik Messerschmidt, ASC Mank Phedon Papamichael, ASC, Gsc The Trial of the Chicago 7 Joshua James Richards Nomadland Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC Cherry Dariusz Wolski, ASC News of the World Spotlight Katelin Arizmendi Swallow Aurélien Marra Two...

The American Society of Cinematographers on Wednesday set its nominees for the 35th Asc Outstanding Achievement Awards, recognizing the best in feature film, documentary and television cinematography over the past 14 months. Winners will be revealed April 18 in a virtual ceremony from the Asc Clubhouse in Hollywood.

The marquee Feature Film category this year features awards-season staples including Erik Messerschmidt for Mank and Phedon Papamichael for The Trial of the Chicago 7, both from Netflix, and Chloé Zhao’s go-to Dp Joshua James Richards for Seachlight’s Nomadland. Also in the running is Newton Thomas Sigel for A24’s Russo Brothers-directed Cherry and Dariusz Wolski for Universal’s News of the World.

Papamichael has been nominated for five Asc Awards including last year for Ford v Ferrari. He lost to Roger Deakins for 1917; Deakins went on to win the Oscar, marking the 15th time the Asc winner has gone on to scoop the Academy Award in 34 years.

“Cherry,” “Mank,” “News of the World,” “Nomadland” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” are among the films nominated by the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) in the feature film category.

The Asc nominees for feature film, documentary and television cinematography represent the organization’s picks for the most compelling visual filmmaking over the past 14 months. Last year’s Asc feature film winner was Roger Deakins for “1917,” who went on to win an Oscar for best achievement in cinematography.

Winners will be named during the 35th Asc Outstanding Achievement Awards on April 18.

The virtual ceremony will be live streamed via American Cinematographer’s Facebook page at 12:30 p.m. Pt from the historic Asc Clubhouse in Hollywood.

The complete list of this year’s nominees are:

Feature Film

Erik Messerschmidt, Asc (“Mank”)

Phedon Papamichael, Asc, Gsc (“The Trial of the Chicago 7″)

Joshua James Richards (” Nomadland”)

Newton Thomas Sigel, Asc (“Cherry”)

Dariusz Wolski,...

The cinematography for “Mank,” “Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “News of the World” and “Cherry” has been nominated as the best film work of 2020 by the American Society of Cinematographers, the Asc announced on Wednesday.

The first four of those films were expected to be recognized by the Asc and are thought to be strong contenders for the Oscar for Best Cinematography, but “Cherry” came as a surprise. The Russo brothers film came out in February to withering reviews and had not been considered an awards contender until the Asc included its cinematographer, Newton Thomas Sigel, in its list of nominees.

“Cherry” landed that nomination over a group of films that included “Tenet,” “Minari,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” — and “Da 5 Bloods,” a more high-profile film that was also shot by Sigel.

In the Spotlight category, which singles out cinematographers from films that...

Exclusive: Film and TV marketing and distribution outfit 1091 Media has launched Unidentified, a new streaming channel carried by free, ad-supported service Xumo.

The linear channel features programming on paranormal, alien-related and conspiracy-minded themes. It will leverage 1091’s catalog of documentaries and indie films, including The Cosmic Secret, which features author David Wilcock. Recent titles in the paranormal realm released by 1091 include Bob Lazar and Area 51, Unacknowledged, Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind, and The Phenomenon.

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Xumo, which was acquired by Comcast in February, reaches 45 million U.S. households across smart TVs, mobile, web and streaming boxes with more than 190 channels. Free streaming services like Xumo, Pluto TV,...

The Info Wars host lashed out about the Robots With Rayguns video a fan made for the new song Area 51, featuring Frankmusik; Controversy follows surge of streams following “Storm Area 51” week The video seems to show Alex Jones becoming possessed by the Robots with Rayguns song on the set of Info Wars, he […]

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The first annual Area 51 Alienstock is now officially in the books. The gates have been stormed, the government has buckled, and every last alien has been freed. Fine, if you want to get technical, the only thing that’s true from what we just mentioned is the gate storming, and the only person to successfully do that? A 60-year-old woman from California. And it’s highly doubtful that she Naruto ran.

For those unfamiliar with the whole thing, the Storm Area 51 raid started as a joke on Facebook but soon ballooned into a 2 million strong attendee event. It fizzled out in the end, however, with only a few thousand people showing up. Among them were a mere 100 raiders, and the only person to get arrested was the aforementioned, yet-unidentified woman in her 60s.

Earlier last week, before things kicked off, two men had been arrested for trespassing as well...

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If you’re gearing up to storm Area 51 on September 20th, maybe the trailer for Xenophobia can scare you straight.. Xenophobia looks like the kind of cheesy, gory, practical-effects driven B-movie we can really get behind! Look for Xenophobia […] The post Trailer: Xenophobia Looks Like the Kind of Cheesy/Gory Alien Abduction B-Movie We Can Get Behind! appeared first on Dread Central.

If you're on Facebook, chances are that you may have heard of the notorious "Storm Area 51" event, to which millions of users have now RSVP'd. The out-of-this-world ordeal started off as a joke after college student Matty Roberts watched Joe Rogan's podcast episode featuring Area 51 whistle-blower Bob Lazar, the subject of a recent documentary on Netflix titled Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. The meme caught the Air Force's attention and brought Lazar and the film about his UFO experience back into the public radar. If you're wondering how this new documentary on Netflix ties into the event, read on to catch up with the recent alien invasion on your feed.

Here's a little bit of about Lazar's backstory. Most of us know Area 51, located in the Nevada Test and Training Range, to be a highly classified government facility shrouded in secret. Suspicions about this region originate from Lazar,...

The man behind Facebook’s “Storm Area 51” page has come forward, calling it “kind of a joke,” but expressing fears that government agents would come knocking on his door.

Matty Roberts spoke to Nevada’s Klas-tv via video call on Wednesday and expressed shock at how his humor has turned into a viral sensation.

“I posted it on like June 27th and it was kind of a joke,” Roberts said. “And then it waited for like three days and like 40 people, and then it just completely took off, out of nowhere. It’s pretty wild.”

More than 1.5 million people have signed up on Facebook to storm the top secret military facility on Sept. 20th, with another 1.1. million expressing interest. The Air Force has warned the foolish that they will take all measures to defend the base if there is an attempt to breach its security. Conspiracy theorists have long believed...

What started out as a (hopefully) gag Facebook event has turned into one of the hottest, most dangerous, and most bizarre stories on the internet. According to the original page, the number of people who plan on storming Area 51 – the long-suspected location of government alien research – later this year has now reached over 1.7 million.

In the short amount of time since the story’s surfaced, social media’s been set on fire, and according to The Washington Post, many of the hotels surrounding the Nevada town have already been booked. While it’s alarming that there’s at least a tiny percentage of people who take this call to action seriously, there’ve been some interesting developments popping up on the internet. And the latest comes in the form of a strange request.

It seems that fans of Katy Perry have been petitioning (via Twitter) to have the major pop star perform her song “E.

Nearly one million people intend to storm Area 51 on September 20th. However, the Defense Department doesn't think it's such a wise idea. As of this writing, a Facebook event has over 873,000 people signed up to go "see them aliens" and over 763,000 people "interested." While this is more than likely a joke event, it has captured the imagination of a lot people who really want to know what the government is hiding from us in the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada.

The top-secret military facility has been operating since 1955, but the United States government did not acknowledge its existence until 2013 and alien enthusiasts want to know what they have been doing there for over 60 years. Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews does not think the "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" event is a wise decision, even if it's a joke. She had this to say.

&#8243(Area 51) is an open training...

As popular as the actress is, Scarlett Johansson has been something of an easy target for jokes on social media for the past couple of years due to her controversial decisions to take on a Japanese character in Ghost in the Shell and a trans role in the aborted Rub & Tug biopic. Yesterday, some new comments from the star were released in which she stated her belief that “as an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal.”

Unfortunately, this quote didn’t go down well online, to say the least, as many felt Johansson’s words made light of the need for greater diversity in Hollywood by comparing minorities to trees. As you can imagine, there’s a range of responses out there, with some blasting the actress with angry comments and others penning intelligent arguments. But mostly, people just made...

Fun and games on Facebook may have serious consequences for the foolish. That was the message delivered by the Us Air Force, who have responded to a Facebook’s group’s efforts to have 450,000 people storm a top secret military base.

Conspiracy theorists have always believed that Area 51 in Nevada holds information about extra-terrestrial activities on our planet, possibly including actual alien remains and aircraft. That belief spawned a Facebook group suggesting that a wave of humanity could overwhelm the defenses at the base and discover the truth.

More than 400,000 people have joined a Facebook event page calling for storming Area 51, with many more indicating interest. The proposed event is scheduled for Sept. 20.

“We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry,” the event description reads. “If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.”

Naruto Run...

In 1989, Bob Lazar called into a Las Vegas radio station and claimed that he had helped to reverse engineer a UFO near Area 51. Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell's Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers documentary tells Lazar's story for the first time. Ever since that first call in 89, Lazar has been pretty elusive, only doing select interviews and showing up at the International UFO Congress in 2015. Lazar's allegations have made his life chaotic, but he's ready to set the record straight for the first time. The controversial documentary features narration by veteran actor Mickey Rourke.

Bob Lazar remains the singular most famous and controversial name in the world of UFOs. Part of the reason that any of us know about Area 51 is because Lazar came forward and told the world about it in 1989. His disclosures have turned his life upside-down and he has tried to stay out of the spotlight.

Alejandro Rojas Nov 19, 2018

The man whose claims of working on alien technology near Area 51 made the base famous is the subject of a new documentary.

In 1989, an anonymous witness talked to Klas Las Vegas about his alleged work engineering alien spacecraft at a secret underground location just south of Area 51. The story about the witness’ claims went global and made Area 51 famous, even though at the time the existence of Area 51 was being denied by the U.S Government. The anonymous witness was later identified as Bob Lazar. Now for the first time since 1989, Lazar will speak at length about his alleged alien insight in a documentary titled Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers. The documentary releases on December 3, 2019, and actor Mickey Rourke narrates the film.

When asked if he believed in UFOs, Rourke told Den of Geek, “I don’t know. I would like to.”

He continued: “When I was...

"My dad, he used to say to me: You only kill what keeps you alive." This moral hunter's credo takes on sinister overtones when spoken by Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) to her lover Jules (Brittany Allen) in the brutal Red Band trailer for writer/director Colin Minihan's What Keeps You Alive. The film was scooped up for distribution by IFC Midnight following an impactful debut at SXSW last March and can now be seen in theaters in Los Angeles and New York or on VOD. The film's premise seems as straight-forward as it is nerve-shredding:

"How much can you really know about another person? The unsettling truth that even those closest to us can harbor hidden dimensions drives this thrillingly unpredictable, blood-stained fear trip. Jackie (Anderson) and Jules (Allen) are a couple celebrating their one year anniversary at a secluded cabin in the woods belonging to Jackie's family. From the moment they arrive,...

"My dad, he used to say to me: You only kill what keeps you alive." This moral hunter's credo takes on sinister overtones when spoken by Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) to her lover Jules (Brittany Allen) in the brutal Red Band trailer for writer/director Colin Minihan's What Keeps You Alive. The film was scooped up for distribution by IFC Midnight following an impactful debut at SXSW last March and can now be seen in theaters in Los Angeles and New York or on VOD. The film's premise seems as straight-forward as it is nerve-shredding:

"How much can you really know about another person? The unsettling truth that even those closest to us can harbor hidden dimensions drives this thrillingly unpredictable, blood-stained fear trip. Jackie (Anderson) and Jules (Allen) are a couple celebrating their one year anniversary at a secluded cabin in the woods belonging to Jackie's family. From the moment they arrive,...

First-time director Oren Peli hit it big with his found footage flick Paranormal Activity. Since then he has produced a number of feature films and directed another found footage film, Area 51 (review). But will the man ever return to directing? Not likely. Peli recently sat down with director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers) on Garris’ podcast Post Mortem and […]

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This summer, the fine folks over at Chiller Films will release Aaron B. Koontz's feature directorial debut, Camera Obscura, in theaters on June 9th and on VOD and Digital on June 13th. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have release details for The Bigfoot Project, Justice Served, and Black Rose, as well as information on Splathouse Productions' Blue Caveman Indiegogo campaign.

Camera Obscura Release Details: Press Release: "New York, NY – April 11, 2017 – Chiller Films is pleased to announce the release of the anticipated horror thriller Camera Obscura, in theaters on June 9 and on VOD and Digital HD on June 13. The film is written by Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns and marks the theatrical directing debut of Koontz. The cast includes Christopher Denham (“Billions,” “Argo”), Nadja Bobyleva (“Bridge of Spies”), Catherine Curtin (“Stranger Things,” “Orange is the New Black”), Chase Williamson (Siren, “Beyond the Gates”) and Noah Segan (“The Mind’s Eye,...

Recall the sensation the 'found footage' thriller "Paranormal Activity" created in 2009, with many believing the film was the best original horror film in years and director Oren Peli hailed as a major new voice in the sub-genre:

But in the six years following the release of the original "Paranormal Activity," Peli avoided directing and instead focused on producing a number of similar projects - until 2015, when he released "Area 51" to little fanfare, receiving mediocre reviews and, according to Box Office Mojo, earned less than $10,000 domestic at the box office (?!) A shocking low for the encore of a director perceived as an innovator less than a decade ago. 

But now the film is available on Netflix, getting another shot with a wide audience.

The idea of 'Area 51' as a secret government establishment related to a crashed alien spacecraft has become cliché over time, even though 'alien conspiracy'...

There is arguably nobody who knows and understands found-footage horror movies better than producer Jason Blum, who has been involved with more hits in the last few years than most in Hollywood manage in a lifetime. Blum doesn't exclusively make found-footage movies (he also produced Oscar winner Whiplash), but he's certainly fond of them considering he produced Paranormal Activity, The Bay, Creep, Mockingbird, Area 51, and Unfriended, just to name a few. Blum's latest movie...

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Although it seems they are synonymous with found-footage horror, low budget movies that will still be financial successes if audiences stop turning out in droves to see them, Blumhouse Productions are arguably something far more interesting. Their prolific output can easily be read as an updating of Roger Corman’s low budget exploitation aesthetic for the 21st century, albeit one that reflects pop culture’s increasingly low standards when it comes to genre filmmaking. After all, Corman-produced films helped launch the filmmaking careers of Scorsese, Cameron and Coppola, among dozens more, whereas Blumhouse acts as a low-budget home for directors whose bigger budget movies have critically and commercially underwhelmed.

It is the rare studio that can take successful auteurs like Barry Levinson or M. Night Shymalan and reduce them to directing found footage horror, rather then working the other way round and using these projects to give them their initial big break.