** Aliens ( film ), a 1986 sequel by James Cameron

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

* Video – Released in 2009, the 3D animated film Monsters vs. Aliens used 100 TB of storage during development.

The Alien queen in the film Aliens is shown suspended in her nest using a giant ovipositor to lay the alien eggs.

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

While making Aliens, Cameron saw a National Geographic film about remote operated vehicles operating deep in the North Atlantic Ocean.

She reunited with Aliens director James Cameron for his 2009 film Avatar, with Weaver playing a major part as Dr. Grace Augustine, leader of the AVTR ( avatar ) program on the film's fictional moon Pandora.

Examples include Wild, Wild West, Westworld, its sequel Futureworld, Cowboys & Aliens, and the hybrid film Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter.

Witherspoon next provided the voice for Susan Murphy, the main character of the computer-animated 3-D feature film Monsters vs. Aliens, which had a March 27, 2009, release from DreamWorks Animation.

With the exception of her animated role in Monsters vs. Aliens, Witherspoon did not appear in a live action film for two years following the release of Four Christmases.

In 2007, the science fiction horror film Aliens vs.

The 1994 movie Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich, and the 2009 video game The Conduit drew some conceptual inspiration from Sitchin's ideas, while screenwriter Roberto Orci says the villains of the film Cowboys & Aliens were inspired by Sitchin's conceptualization of the Anunnaki as gold-mining aliens.

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* Sulaco the sleeper / war ship in the film Aliens

James Cameron's 1986 sequel to Alien, Aliens, was very different from the original film, falling more into the action / science fiction genre, it was both a critical and commercial success and Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards.

NSEERS was probed in the documentary film " Aliens Among Us " by Martina Radwan, for the devastating affect it had on immigrant families of Arab origin.

The film is to be directed by award-winning Stuart St. Paul, who has worked on projects ranging from Duran Duran's seminal ' Wild Boys ' video, to massive franchises like ' Aliens ', ' Batman ' and three ' Bond ' movies.

" Gasoline " was featured in a TV ad for the 2011 film Cowboys and Aliens.

* M41A pulse rifle, a fictional assault rifle from the 1986 film Aliens and related media

The composer James Horner quoted from this same piece in three of his film scores, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and Aliens.

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In 2009, " Tell Him " was included on the soundtrack for the film Monsters vs. Aliens.

* Narcissus, an escape shuttle in the Aliens film series

In July 2011, Favreau was featured in a YouTube video by visual effects artist Freddie Wong ( known on YouTube as the popular channel, " freddiew "), in a spoof of his then-upcoming summer film, Cowboys & Aliens.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

The team discovers the small Tyrathca settlement, a race of ( socially ) insect-like Aliens who have suffered great losses to attacks by possessed humans, passing by a small temple being constructed even though the Tyrathca race do not have religion.

** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

" In the sequel Aliens directed by James Cameron critic Roger Ebert exclaims, " Weaver, who is onscreen almost all the time, comes through with a very strong, sympathetic performance: She's the thread that holds everything together.

Inspired by the character of Vasquez in Aliens, the character was originally to be named " Macha Hernandez ".

I Disconnect From You ", " Praying to the Aliens ", and " Only a Downstat ", influenced directly by Burroughs ' Scientology-based writings.

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

They are said to be inspired by H. R. Giger's " exo-skeletal nightmares " in the Aliens films.

The Prophets, or " Wormhole Aliens " ( as they are referred to by Starfleet ) exist within the wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants, the Alpha end being located within the Bajoran system.

When Spock and his new crew are captured by a monstrous worm-like race of aliens ( which Koenig described as " things that the monsters in Aliens evolved from "), the old crew must rescue them.

* The Zoot Marlowe series ( 1989 – 1991 ) by Mel Gilden ( Surfing Samurai Robots, Hawaiian UFO Aliens, and Tubular Android Superheroes ) features an alien protagonist who is an homage to Philip Marlowe.

Some contemporary family sitcoms have made the blended family sitcom more popular with the TGIF show Step by Step bringing about other shows such as Aliens in the Family, Life with Derek, Drake & Josh, and the short lived NBC family sitcom Something So Right.

During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".

It's as though James Cameron had cut footage out of Aliens so that it could be rendered in blocky 2D graphics in the 1987 Spectrum / C64 tie-in game released by Electric Dreams — which remains, actually, a superior film-to-game conversion.

* Changeling, a 1989 novel by Stephen Leigh in the Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens series