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On Blu-Ray, Everyone Will Hear You Scream –
Alien Anthology

August 27, 2010 | gci clients

The Nostromo Makes its Canadian Debut at Fan Expo 2010 from August 26 - 29 in Anticipation of the Alien Anthology

The Ultimate Collection Featuring All Four ALIEN Films Hatches OnBlu-ray from October 26 With Never-Before-Seen Bonus Material And The Debut Of The Exclusive and Groundbreaking Interactive Experience, MU-TH-UR Mode

To help celebrate the arrival of one of the most successful and terrifying film franchises of all time, ALIEN ANTHOLOGY, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents the only Canadian appearance of the Nostromo at Fan Expo from August 26-29 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Fans can visit booth #825 to enter the hibernation chamber of the doomed intergalactic crew.  Also being unveiled for the first time in Canada is MU-TH-UR Mode, a fully interactive companion that takes the extensive materials in the ALIEN ANTHOLOGY and puts them in the user’s hand – connecting fans to special features on all six discs and instantly providing an index of all available ALIEN content, including over 60 hours of special features and over 12,000 images.

As a Fan Expo exclusive, retailer HMV will have a Limited Collector’s Edition Alien Anthology Egg on Blu-ray available for pre-order.  Fans can visit HMV at booth #427 to pre-order the Egg for $199.99. 

On October 26, the ALIEN ANTHOLOGY will be released for the first time ever on Blu-ray for a truly unique home entertainment experience.  The studio has united the material from every home video release of the ALIEN saga including the 1991/1992 laserdisc releases, the 1999 “Legacy” release and 2003’s groundbreaking ALIEN QUADRILOGY release into one complete Blu-ray collection.  The set also includes two versions of each film and over four hours of previously unreleased exclusive material such as original screentests of Sigourney Weaver prior to filming the original ALIEN, unseen deleted scenes, thousands of still photographs from the Fox archives, the previously unseen original cut of “Wreckage and Rage: The Making of ALIEN3,” and much, much more.  For more information on ALIEN ANTHOLOGY please visit www.foxpressroom.com. The ALIEN ANTHOLOGY will be available at Canadian retailers everywhere for the suggested retail price of $179.99.

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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.