"successfully make Earth into their new homeworld is imperative for in roughly five years, three million colonists from Mor-Tax are expected to arrive. An eclectic group is formed by the government to deal with the new alien threat, and the series follows their missions and adventures (and often failures) in fighting the aliens. The Blackwood Project, named after its central member, consists of the following: Opening narration (spoken in voice-over by Martin in character as Blackwood): Along with other sci-fi/horror series that ran in syndication in the late 1980s (such as """" and ""Freddy's Nightmares""), ""War of the Worlds"" constantly"
"Carroll wanted to take new directions as ""we wouldn't do a reheat of one and two"". The trio opted to explore the duplicity of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and why they were so intent in using the Aliens as biological weapons. Various concepts were discussed, eventually settling on a two-part story, with the treatment for the third film featuring ""the underhanded Weyland-Yutani Corporation facing off with a militarily aggressive culture of humans whose rigid socialist ideology has caused them to separate from Earth's society."" Michael Biehn's Corporal Hicks would be promoted to protagonist in the third film, with Sigourney Weaver's character"
"Jerry Weintraub. Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy were set to write and executive produce the series, with Nolan directing the pilot episode. Production began in Summer 2014 in Los Angeles. The new series premiered October 2, 2016. On May 1, 2018, the series was renewed for a third season. Westworld (film) Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton about amusement park androids that malfunction and begin killing visitors. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests"
"stasis, she realizes that Walter is in fact David, but is unable to escape her pod before falling asleep. David regurgitates two facehugger embryos and places them in cold storage with the human embryos. He poses as Walter to record a log stating that all crewmembers except Daniels and Tennessee were killed by the solar flare incident at the beginning of the film and that the ship is still on course for Origae-6. A number of actors appear in uncredited roles. Guy Pearce reprises his role as Peter Weyland, the trillionaire founder and CEO of Weyland Corporation (the Weyland-Yutani Corporation"
"that Weyland-Yutani already has a specimen of an alien on Earth, and wishes to keep its monopoly on the species, and prevent anyone else from obtaining a specimen. A third group enters the fray, a religious cult that worships the alien xenomorph, and whose members believe that implantation by a facehugger alien is something akin to joining with god. After the marine expedition leaves for the alien planet, followed by the mercenary ship, the alien god cult manages to locate the Weyland-Yutani lab holding the alien samples, breaks into the lab using suicidal attacks, and manages to get several members"
"Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend unto the planet and enters the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa ""Lex"" Woods (Sanaa Lathan), while making their way out of the"
"ruins of the Engineer civilization infested with Xenomorphs. After numerous failed attempts, Weyland-Yutani successfully established a long-term research facility to study LV-1201, the ruins and the Xenomorphs. The facility is headed by Dr. Eisenberg, a shady Weyland-Yutani official, and consists of a Primary Operations Complex and a network of five Forward Observation Pods suspended over a canyon. A garrison of corporate mercenaries known as the Iron Bears, led by the mercenary general Vassili Rykov, provides security. It is later established in the expansion pack ""Aliens versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt"" that LV-1201 was also once the location of a Predator"
"stripes and one with five stripes, appear in the series. The alliance is formally described as the Union of Allied Planets in the episode ""Ariel"". The Blue Sun corporation is a powerful conglomerate with much influence within the Alliance. Joss Whedon compared it with ""Coca-Cola or Microsoft"" and said that ""practically half the government was Blue Sun"". Their agents are ""Hands of Blue"". The Weyland-Yutani corporation from ""Alien"" is also alluded to; its logo appears on Alliance weapons. In the movie ""Serenity"", the Alliance also hires local security companies. The two worlds that make up the ""core planets"" (the first"
"Jack Weyland Jack Arnold Weyland (born 1940) is a retired professor of physics at Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is a prolific and well-known author of fiction for LDS audiences, including many novels and short stories, mostly placed in contemporary settings. His novel ""Charly"" was made into a feature film in 2002. Weyland was born in Butte, Montana. He graduated from Billings Senior High School and then attended Montana State University where he majored in Physics. Upon graduating he served a mission for the LDS Church"
"the research lab Weyland–Yutani built above the Predators' pyramid and searches for the wrist bracer stolen by the colonists for research. Dark has his first encounter with corporate combat androids. Weyland attempts to capture the Elite for live experimentation, but fails. The Elite acquires the wrist bracer, and after battling through the Xenomorph labs and the queen's former chamber, makes it to the pyramid, activates the self-destruct sequence to his wrist bracer before battling & killing a Predalien, which was born from the previous Elite Predator in the Alien campaign. He is then informed the wrist bracer is to be"
"to the similar moment from ""Predator 2"" when an Alien skull is seen in the trophy room of the Predator spaceship. Ellen Ripley does not appear in this franchise, as it takes place years prior to the events of the ""Alien"" series. In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in Earth orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. A buried pyramid giving off a ""heat bloom"" attracts a group of explorers led by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who"
"video games, until a film franchise was launched with the release of ""Alien vs. Predator"" in 2004, followed by the sequel """" in 2007, which spawned various new comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in Earth orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. A buried pyramid giving off a ""heat bloom"" attracts a group of explorers led by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who"
"communications company, Weyland Industries, a subsidiary of the Weyland Corporation, and assembles a team of experts to investigate. The team includes archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers, mercenaries, and a guide named Alexa ""Lex"" Woods (Sanaa Lathan). As a Predator ship reaches Earth's orbit, it fires a beam that creates a passage through the ice towards the source of the heat bloom. When the team arrives at the abandoned whaling station above the heat source, they find the passage and descend beneath the ice. They locate the mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, finding evidence of a prehistoric civilization and what"
"Weyland-Yutani intercepted and boarded the ""Sulaco"" prior to its arrival at the Fiorina 161 planet. A fire in the hypersleep bay subsequently caused the ""Sulaco"" survivors Ellen Ripley, Newt and Bishop to be jettisoned from the ship, along with the body of an unidentified man who was mistaken for the corporal. Hicks himself was captured by Weyland-Yutani personnel and subjected to torture during interrogation, overseen by android Michael Weyland in an attempt to learn more about the Xenomorphs' origins and to gain control of the ""Sulaco""s weapon systems. From Hicks, the Marines also learn that an FTL-capable ship is docked"
"feature films. The series stars Jim McMullan as Security Chief John Moore of the Delos Corporation. The story revolved around Moore having to stop the evil scientist, Quaid, as he plans to use the Delos robots to try to take over the world. It premiered on March 5, 1980 on the television network CBS in the United States. The show was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup and Outstanding Art Direction For a Series. Only five episodes were produced, of which three aired before the series' cancellation. ""Westworld"" is an American science fiction-thriller television series"
"Bruno Borgia before being recovered by his clan on a ship. In the epilogue, Lucretia is revealed to have survived, been turned into a cyborg by the recently merged Weyland and Yutani corporations, who install her as the new MOTHER computer controlling Neonopolis. ""Predator: Concrete Jungle"" makes several links between the films of the ""Alien"", ""Predator"", and ""Alien vs. Predator"" franchises. The film ""Predator 2"" also featured a powerful Jamaican gang with a leader named King Willie. Hunter mentions to Lucretia that he knew Charles Bishop Weyland ""before he disappeared""; Weyland appeared in the film ""Alien vs. Predator"" (2004) leading"
"post-apocalyptic wasteland while the surviving machines remain hidden. In the wasteland, a Warlord (James Franco), raids a settlement that contains a high-tech lab with an android girl named Ash (Suki Waterhouse). The Warlord activates Ash who opens two different colored eyes, (one blue, one green), that light up when she receives commands through a handheld remote. Elsewhere, in a fertile zone called the Oasis, a young man called the Prince (Jeffrey Wahlberg), sets out on a mission into the wasteland in search of medicine to help his sick mother the Queen (Lucy Liu). His only clue to finding it is"
"and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. The 20th century's industrialization led to overcrowding, pollution and global warming due to the greenhouse effect. In 2022, 40 million people live in New York City; housing is dilapidated; homeless people fill the streets; many are unemployed; those few with jobs are only barely scraping by and food and working technology are scarce with most of the population surviving on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. Their latest product is Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain ""high-energy plankton"" from the oceans of the world, more nutritious and palatable than"
"Wil Wheaton Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor, blogger, voice actor and writer. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series """", Gordie Lachance in the film ""Stand by Me"", Joey Trotta in ""Toy Soldiers"" and Bennett Hoenicker in ""Flubber"". Wheaton has also appeared in recurring roles as Aqualad in ""Teen Titans"", Cosmic Boy on the ""Legion of Super Heroes"" and Mike Morningstar/Darkstar in the ""Ben 10"" universe. He has also regularly appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the CBS sitcom ""The Big Bang Theory"" and in the roles of Fawkes on"
"Westworld (TV series) Westworld is an American science fiction Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Produced by HBO, it is based on the 1973 film of the same name (written and directed by Michael Crichton) and to a lesser extent the film's 1976 sequel, ""Futureworld"". The story takes place in Westworld, a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android ""hosts"". The park caters to high-paying ""guests"" who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans. Nolan and Joy"
"Video devices four days after broadcast on CBS. In Canada, the series premiered on July 9, 2014, on Global Television Network. In Australia, the series premiered on July 13, 2014, on Network Ten. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2014, on Amazon Video. It made its television premiere on January 20, 2015 on Syfy. In New Zealand, it debuted on July 23, 2014 on Prime. Extant (TV series) Extant is an American science fiction television drama series created by Mickey Fisher and, as executive producer, Steven Spielberg. The story revolves around astronaut Molly Woods (Halle Berry)"
"David 8 David 8, commonly known as David, is a fictional character featured in the ""Alien"" franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender. Introduced in the first prequel film, ""Prometheus"" (2012), David is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation. While he assists his human companions in their interstellar expedition to meet their creators, the extraterrestrial Engineers, David is obsessed with the concept of creating life of his own. After Peter Weyland is killed, David is freed from servitude, allowing him to conduct his experiments to engineer"
"Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, learns from Christopher Samuels, an android working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, that the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the ""Nostromo"", was recently located by the crew of a salvage vessel, the ""Anesidora"". The flight recorder is being held aboard Sevastopol, a remote space station owned by the Seegson corporation, in orbit around the KG-348 gas giant. Samuels offers Ripley a place on the Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve it so that she can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother. Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor travel to Sevastopol on"
"provides another reason for why human-made objects are motivated to take over. In this film, we briefly see that Buzz Lightyear's batteries are produced by the mega corporation Buy n Large (BnL), which shows great importance in later films. In ""WALL-E"", BnL had to send the remaining humans into space in starships in the early 22nd century. Negroni suggests that the ""Cars"" franchise takes place after these events (and before the events of ""WALL-E"", which is set about eight centuries after the ships departed), when Earth was dominated by the machines (cars). While the ""Cars"" franchise is clearly set on"
"included several songs by Queen, like ""Princes of the Universe"", which were also used in the ""Highlander"" television series title sequence. Box office-wise, in the United States, the film took in $2,453,021 in its opening weekend and ended up grossing $5,735,847. However, the film had more success internationally, taking in $12,885,193. """", also directed by Russell Mulcahy, was released on November 1, 1991. The film mainly takes place in 2024, with flashbacks to events in 1999, and also a very distant past on the planet Zeist. MacLeod designs an energy shield to protect the Earth after its ozone layer began"
"deeper layers of political intrigue. The cast also includes , , Eva Holubová and Petra Špalková. The first two episodes of the series had an advance screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2016, and in the Primetime program at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Wasteland (Czech TV series) Wasteland () is a Czech television series, slated to premiere in October 2016 on HBO Europe. Created by Štěpán Hulík, the series stars Zuzana Stivinova as the mayor of a small Czech town which is being bought up and razed by a coal mining company, leading to"
"June 21, 2017, with Wahlberg, Tucci, and Cullen returning, and Bay directing. Sixty-five million years ago, an alien race known as the “Creators” used devices called Seeds to terraform Planet Earth, covering it with an alloy called Transformium. In the present day, geologist Darcy Tyril excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Industries, which uses it to build man-made Transformer drones. Five years after , humans have begun to view the Transformers as a threat, leading the U.S. government to terminate all human-Autobot joint programs. Although the public believes that the Autobots have been granted sanctuary, they are being hunted by a"
"Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall, Thomasina Miers etc. as well as the docu-reality show, THE NEW ACTIVISTS, produced by BAFTA winning producers, Monkey Kingdom. Alongside these original series, Goodwin was also charged with launching the BUILD Series in London, a long-running entertainment format featuring the biggest stars in the world from TV, Film, Music, etc. Live streamed in front of live studio audience, Build LDN debuted in July 2016 and has gone on to TX of 150 episodes. Similarly, Goodwin's team also oversaw the launch and production of AOL's Female first brand,MAKERS, with video content featuring contributors such as Deliciously Ella and Annie"
"renegade General Bush working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation. They board Bush's military ship as it lifts off, kill the Alien Queen after it kills him, and program the ship to crash into San Drad, triggering a huge explosion that eliminates all Alien life on Earth. The Predator warrior then gives his wrist blades to Dutch and Linn in recognition of their skills as warriors, before the Predators depart back into space. Linn asks the Predators why they chose to help them, and the Predators' vague reply makes her and Dutch wonder whether they will have to fight them the next"
"created by husband-wife duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Nolan serves as executive producer along with Joy, J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. The series takes place in fictional Westworld, a technologically advanced, Western-themed amusement park populated completely by synthetic androids dubbed ""Hosts"". Westworld caters to high-paying visitors dubbed ""Newcomers"" (also known as ""Guests""), who can do whatever they wish within the park, without fear of retaliation from the Hosts. ""Westworld"" premiered on October 2, 2016 on the cable television channel HBO in the United States. The series has been well received. The series has also attained strong Nielsen ratings"
"Day and Wil Wheaton, who made various appearances on ""Eureka"". Eureka (U.S. TV series) Eureka is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006. The fifth and final season ended on July 16, 2012. The show was set in a fictional town of Eureka, Oregon (although, in the pilot episode, Eureka was located in Washington – and the origin of a diamond in the episode ""Best In Faux"" was shown as Eureka, California). Most residents of Eureka are scientific geniuses who work for Global Dynamics – an advanced research facility responsible for the development"
"Volantis and the 200-year-old ruins of its colony. The group tries to reach Ellie's SOS signal; however, the ""Eudora"" breaks apart due to mines left in orbit of the planet. Norton, Carver, and Isaac manage to escape the exploding ""Eudora"", reaching the derelict CMS ""Roanoke"", which is infested with Necromorphs. They succeed in rescuing the ""Marker Team"", consisting of Ellie, Jennifer Santos (Michelle Anne Johnson), and Austin Buckell (Frank Ashmore), and Isaac learns about Ellie and Norton's new relationship. Isaac soon discovers that Tau Volantis is the Marker Home World, and that the expedition 200 years ago involved a Machine"
"used by Ryan and his friends to travel throughout most of the novels. Deathlands: Homeward Bound Deathlands: Homeward Bound is a 2003 television film based on the ""Deathlands"" series of books. The Sci Fi Pictures film, released May 17, 2003, on the Sci Fi Channel, stars Vincent Spano and Traci Lords, and was directed by Joshua Butler. Earth is devastated by a nuclear war in 2084. The sky is red from chemical waste, and what was once the United States has become ""Deathlands"" inhabited by mutants. Communities ruled by powerful survivors are called ""villes"", and the one known as Front"