"intended to exploit the hype of Fox’s own ""Cleopatra"" (1963). Allen's film is played much more for comedy than Juran's film. In Verne's novel and the Woolner Brothers' film, the balloon was named the ""Victoria"". Allen's film renames it the ""Jupiter"" with Allen giving the name ""Jupiter II"" to the spaceship on ""Lost in Space"". Filming took place in early 1962. It was the only film being made on the Fox lot at the time, due to costs incurred by ""Cleopatra"" (1963). The film was entirely shot in Hollywood except for some second unit shots in Africa. Allen wanted to"
"1997, the United States is gearing up to colonize space. The ""Jupiter 2"", a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launch pad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on a five-and-a-half-year journey to an Earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. The Robinson family, consisted of Professor John Robinson (Guy Williams), his wife Maureen (June Lockhart) and their three children, Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright), and Will (Billy Mumy). The family is accompanied by U.S. Space Corps Major Donald West (Mark Goddard), who is trained to land the ship. The Robinsons and Major West"
"Cyborg 2 Cyborg 2, released in some countries as Glass Shadow, is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder and starring Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Billy Drago, Karen Sheperd and Jack Palance. It is an unrelated sequel to the 1989 film ""Cyborg"", although footage from the original is used in a dream sequence. It was also Jolie's film debut in a starring role (she had previously made an earlier film, ""Lookin' to Get Out"", as a child actress). It was followed by the 1995 direct-to-video release """". In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated"
"Zachary Smith – an agent for an unnamed foreign government – who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, Smith is trapped aboard, and his excess weight alters the craft's flight path and places it directly in the path of a massive meteor storm. Smith manages to save himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship survives, but the damage caused by Smith's earlier sabotage of the robot leaves the crew lost in space. The ""Jupiter 2"" crash-lands on an alien world, later identified by Will as Priplanus, where"
"Jupiter and Earth. Naturally, this time would depend on the relative positions of the bodies in the Solar System at any given moment. After the malfunction of HAL, Bowman deactivated the computer, thus effectively isolating himself on board the ""Discovery"". In the movie, when the spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, it encounters TMA-1's considerably larger 'Big Brother', 'TMA-2', at the Jupiter/Io L1 point. The novel is basically the same with ""Discovery"" in orbit around Saturn's moon Iapetus instead. In both versions Bowman leaves ""Discovery"" to examine the monolith and is taken inside it. The novel and movie ""2010: Odyssey Two"" follows"
"Zoolander 2 Zoolander 2 is a 2016 American action-comedy film directed by Ben Stiller and written by John Hamburg, Justin Theroux, Stiller and Nicholas Stoller. It is the sequel to the 2001 film ""Zoolander"" and stars Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Penélope Cruz and Kristen Wiig. Filming took place from April to July 2015, in Rome, Italy. The film was released on February 12, 2016, by Paramount Pictures to generally negative reviews from critics and earned $56 million against a $55 million budget. At Fashion Interpol, a secret agent, Valentina Valencia examines the expressions of recently assassinated pop singers' last"
"planet circling the star Alpha Centauri with hopes of colonizing it. Their mission in 1997 (the official launch date of the ""Jupiter 2"" was October 16, 1997) is immediately sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith, who slips aboard their spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. Smith is trapped aboard, and saves himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. They save the ship, but consequent damage leaves them lost in space. Eventually they crash on an alien world, later identified as Priplanis, where they must survive a host of adventures. Smith (whom the show's writer"
"Mission: Impossible 2 Mission: Impossible 2 (stylized as M:i-2) is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. The sequel to 1996 film ""Mission: Impossible"", it is the second installment in the . It follows Ethan Hunt as he is recruited by the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) to find and destroy a dangerous biological weapon called ""Chimera"" from rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose with the help of his new girlfriend Nyah Nordoff-Hall. ""Mission: Impossible 2"" was released in theaters worldwide on May 24, 2000, and grossed over $546.4 million worldwide, becoming"
"are to be cryogenically frozen for the voyage, and they are set to be unfrozen when the spacecraft approaches its destination. Meanwhile, Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris), Alpha Control's doctor, is revealed to be a saboteur on behalf of an unnamed nation. After disposing of a guard who catches him on board the spacecraft, Smith reprograms the ""Jupiter 2""s B-9 environmental control robot (voiced by Dick Tufeld) to destroy critical systems on the spaceship eight hours after launch. Smith, however, becomes trapped aboard at launch and his extra weight throws the ""Jupiter 2"" off course, causing it to encounter a"
"Jupiter Ascending Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera film written, produced and directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, and Eddie Redmayne, the film is centered on Jupiter Jones (Kunis), an ordinary cleaning woman, and Caine Wise (Tatum), an interplanetary warrior who informs Jones that her destiny extends beyond Earth. Supporting cast member Douglas Booth has described the film's fictional universe as a cross between ""The Matrix"" and ""Star Wars"", while Kunis identified indulgence and consumerism as its underlying themes. The film was co-produced by Grant Hill, making ""Jupiter Ascending"" his seventh collaboration with the"
"of high-tech Elite Colonial Marines aboard the spaceship ""Sulaco"" to investigate. Once there, they discover the colonists have been wiped out after finding the derelict alien ship (and its deadly cargo) from the first film. Due to a fire aboard the ""Sulaco"", an escape pod carrying the survivors of the second film is automatically jettisoned. It crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina ""Fury"" 161, but Ripley is the only one to survive the crash. Unbeknownst to her, some alien facehuggers were also aboard the ship. Before long, a full-sized Alien is then loose in the prison, killing the inmates and"
"Species II Species II is a 1998 American science fiction horror thriller film directed by Peter Medak. The film is a sequel to ""Species"" (1995) and the second installment in the ""Species"" series. Starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger, all of whom reprise their roles from the first film. The plot has Patrick Ross, (Justin Lazard) the astronaut son of a senator (James Cromwell), being infected by an extraterrestrial virus during a mission to Mars and causing the deaths of many women upon his return. To stop him, the scientists who created the human-extraterrestrial hybrid Sil in the"
"from ""Taste.io"", a user rating website for movies. Jupiter Ascending Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera film written, produced and directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, and Eddie Redmayne, the film is centered on Jupiter Jones (Kunis), an ordinary cleaning woman, and Caine Wise (Tatum), an interplanetary warrior who informs Jones that her destiny extends beyond Earth. Supporting cast member Douglas Booth has described the film's fictional universe as a cross between ""The Matrix"" and ""Star Wars"", while Kunis identified indulgence and consumerism as its underlying themes. The film was co-produced by Grant Hill,"
"the behind-the-scenes stunts of ""Mission: Impossible 2"", and stars Cruise, Ben Stiller, and Woo. Mission: Impossible 2 Mission: Impossible 2 (stylized as M:i-2) is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. The sequel to 1996 film ""Mission: Impossible"", it is the second installment in the . It follows Ethan Hunt as he is recruited by the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) to find and destroy a dangerous biological weapon called ""Chimera"" from rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose with the help of his new girlfriend Nyah Nordoff-Hall. ""Mission: Impossible 2"" was released"
"Interceptor Force 2 IF2: Interceptor Force 2, commonly called Interceptor Force 2, is a 2002 Sci Fi Pictures science-fiction TV movie on the Sci Fi Channel. A sequel to the 1999 Sci Fi Channel telefilm ""Interceptor Force"", it is directed by Phillip Roth, and stars Olivier Gruner, Roger R. Cross, Adrienne Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gracen and Nigel Bennett. Government-trained soldiers called the Interceptors are assigned to look at a crash site of an alien spacecraft in Russia where they find a alien that can change shape. Over Grozny, Russia, a pair of fighter jets chase down an unidentified spacecraft moving at"
"determined that ""Discovery"" will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before ""Discovery Two"" is ready. Floyd, along with ""Discovery"" designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra, joins the Soviet mission. Upon arriving at Jupiter, the crew detect signs of life on Jupiter's seemingly barren moon Europa. They send an unmanned probe down to Europa to investigate the unusual readings, but just as it finds the source, a mysterious energy burst destroys the probe and its data. The ""burst"" then flies toward Jupiter. The Soviets believe the burst was simply electrostatic build-up, but Floyd suspects it was a warning to"
"April 2014. Along with the ""Star Wars"" films, R2-D2 makes non-canon cameo appearances in several other films, such as ""Star Trek"" and ""Star Trek Into Darkness"", seen flying in debris, ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"" on the underside of the alien ship, ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", seen on the wall of the room containing the Ark, and in """", seen flying among rubble and debris in the sky. R2-D2 will appear in the upcoming ""Wreck-It Ralph"" sequel, ""Ralph Breaks the Internet"". In an early script to 2014's ""The Lego Movie"", R2-D2 was set to be one of the"
"by Cuomo, guitarist Brian Bell, bassist Matt Sharp, and Weezer collaborator Karl Koch, along with guest vocalists Rachel Haden of That Dog and the Rentals, and Joan Wasser of the Dambuilders. In 2126, the spaceship ""Betsy II ""embarks on a galaxy-wide mission. Crew members Wuan (Bell) and Dondó (Sharp) are in high spirits, but the ship's captain, Jonas (Cuomo), has mixed feelings. The ship's robot, M1 (Koch), urges the crew to stay focused on their objective. Jonas becomes involved in a love triangle with ""good girl"" Laurel (Haden), and the ship's cook, ""bad girl"" Maria (Wasser), with whom he fathers"
"as a happy crew without internal conflicts. While many storylines in the later series focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, a stowaway and saboteur played by Jonathan Harris, he was absent from the unaired pilot. His character was added after the series was commissioned for production. The pilot episode was first aired on television during a 1997 retrospective. CBS bought the series, turning down ""Star Trek"" in favor of ""Lost in Space"". Before the first episode was filmed, the characters Smith and the Robot were added, and the spaceship, originally named ""Gemini 12"", was renamed the ""Jupiter 2"" and redesigned."
"aboard spaceship Bravo Zulu 88, joining the crew of an orbiting space station. Peterson is assigned to write a story about the ""infra-radiation flux in Galaxy M12"", but soon tension develops between Peterson and the station commander (David Montresor). He believes the reporter is in the way, calling him a ""leech"", but he has orders to not interfere with Peterson. A complication arises when Lucy (Gabriella Farinon), the station botanist and navigator, becomes attracted to both the commander and Peterson. When the errant Spaceship Alpha Two enters the inner solar system, its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy"
"II"" is the second film in the series, set five years after the first. For Agent J, it is another day at the office, monitoring, licensing and policing all alien activity on Earth. Agent K retired from MiB after the events of the first film and has returned to his former life. One day, J receives a report of an unauthorized landing of an alien spacecraft near New York. It is an old enemy of MiB, a Kylothian named Serleena, who is searching for a powerful artifact called The Light of Zartha. J investigates and realizes that it requires knowledge"
"US$32 million worldwide. Although the film was not considered a box office success, preceding its initial screening to the public the film was generally met with positive critical reviews. Widescreen DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film, also including the hi-definition theatrical trailer, scene selections, and director's commentary among other highlights, were released in the United States on 8 January 2008. In 2056, the sun is dying and the Earth is freezing. A crew of eight pilot a colossal nuclear bomb aboard the spaceship ""Icarus II"", with the intent to jump start the sun, and return to Earth. As they"
"the opening scene features a conversation between Dimitri Moisevitch of the Soviet Space Council and Dr. Heywood Floyd. When Moisevitch informs Floyd that the Soviets will be travelling to Jupiter on their new spaceship, the ""Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov"", Floyd is initially puzzled, claiming that he thought the ship was to be named after Gherman Titov. In the book, Moisevitch just mentioned that it had been changed to ""Leonov""; in the film, he replies that Titov has fallen out of favour, though he does not elaborate. BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 12 April 2011,"" Titanium"", features Titov as narrator during"
"RoboCop 2 RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American cyberpunk action film directed by Irvin Kershner, written by Frank Miller and Walon Green, and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the first sequel to the 1987 film, ""RoboCop"" and the second entry in the ""RoboCop"" media franchise. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, the plot centers around the eponymous RoboCop (Weller) as he becomes in embroiled in a scheme by Omni Consumer Products to bankrupt and take over the city while also fighting the spread of"
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: Judgment Day (often shortened to Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced, and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong as its principal cast. It is the sequel to the 1984 film ""The Terminator"", as well as the second installment in the ""Terminator"" franchise. ""Terminator 2"" follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator: the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John"
"July 2018. Attraction 2 Attraction 2 () is an upcoming Russian science fiction film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. The action of the film unfolds after the events described in ""Attraction"" (2017). The film stars Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov and Oleg Menshikov. After the fall of the alien ship, it took three years. The catastrophe turned the girl's life from Chertanovo and forever changed our view of the universe. It seems that this was the biggest test for all of us. But mankind does not yet know that very soon he will have to experience a new meeting. Filming"
"2"", taking place on the planet where Zurg has his lair set up, and featuring the same style of robots as in the film. The Queue has the look of a Star Tours type attraction and is the longest indoor queue for all of the versions of the attraction. It looks like the International Space Station. The walls are covered with pictures of Buzz Lightyear himself. Video monitors are displayed on some of those walls. The monitors play videos of the LGMS,and Zurg with his new weapon. Buzz Lightyear will also appear on the screen fighting the robots. Most of"
"into the night sky and flying airships travel overhead. On board the ships, children are seen playing a variety of games as they travel further away from Jackson, towards the moon. Other children appear in the forest undergrowth before floating up towards the airships, but Jackson remains seated on the tree stump. Although the concept of the video had little in common with the corresponding film, ""Free Willy 2"", two of its actors-Jason James Richter and Francis Capra-appear in the video. Richter appears halfway through, leading the armada of airships. Capra appears near the end of the video alongside Jackson"
"of his men in a shoot out and strands the rest on the asteroid, as it collides with the Moon. Because Clementine is her brother's next of kin, Kemp informs her that she now has legal ownership of the nickel vein and soon the ""crashed"" sapphire asteroid, making her a very wealthy woman. Special visual effects for the film were created by a team headed by visual effects artist Les Bowie, who worked on numerous Hammer productions and other British-made science fiction features. The ""Moon 02"" Spacecraft in the film is described as being 'quite old'. Among the futuristic set"
"Avatar 2 Avatar 2 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, produced, and co-written by James Cameron, and is the second film in the ""Avatar"" franchise. Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau, with Josh Friedman originally announced as his co-writer; it was later announced that Cameron, Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno took a part in the writing process of all sequels before being attributed separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits unclear. Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, CCH Pounder, and Matt Gerald are"
"Prometheus (2012 film) Prometheus ( ) is a 2012 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship ""Prometheus"" as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species. Development of the film began"
"million worldwide. In 2058, Earth will be uninhabitable within twenty years due to the irreversible effects of pollution and ozone depletion. In an effort to save humanity, the United Global Space Force (UGSF) elects to send Professor John Robinson and his family—wife Maureen, daughters Judy and Penny, and young prodigy son Will—on a mission on the spaceship ""Jupiter II"" to complete the construction of a hypergate over the planet Alpha Prime, allowing for the population of Earth to be instantly transported to and populate it as a new home. Penny is resistant to leaving, rebelling by breaking curfew, while Will's"
"aimed at Jupiter in the motion picture. Its powerful magnetic field disappears immediately. In the novel, some scientists speculate that its magnetic field came from large electric currents, circulating in a system of superconductors for millions of years as an energy-storage mechanism. All of that electric power was expended in the one radio signal. An identical (except in size) object was found later, orbiting Jupiter (on a moon of Saturn in the book, although this was changed to Jupiter in the sequel book, """"). This object was dubbed ""TMA-2"", a term that the book calls ""doubly inappropriate"": it had no"