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1979’s Alien returns to theaters next month for new Alien Day fan event

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March 30, 2016

Following on its success with last year’s Back to the Future Day celebration and the annual Star Wars Day (May the Fourth), 20th Century Fox has created a new day to bring fans back to the Alien franchise. Although we believe they should have gone with Mother’s Day, April 26, 2016, is being targeted for the first Alien Day in honor of the doomed world, LV-426, where Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley first encountered the vile xenomorphs in 1979’s Alien. This means bringing the movie back for a limited theatrical release and plenty of product tie-ins. It’s all in anticipation of Fox’s release of Ridley Scott’s next Alien franchise film next year, Alien: Covenant, starring Michael Fassbender.

For action figure fans, NECA is releasing Lieutenant Vasquez, Newt, and Kenner-style Ellen Ripley figures, and Funko is releasing a Kenner-style Queen, Power Loader and Ripley figure set and Super 7 will offer several figures. Hot Toys will sell a 1:6 scale Ripley figure. Look for Kotobukiya to release a 1:10 scale xenomorph. Sideshow and Medicon Toy company will also release new Alien figures.

Titan Books is releasing a new Tim Lebbon tie-in novel, Alien: Invasion. (Check out our review and interview with Lebbon here at borg.com of Lebbon’s first awesome Alien novel Alien: Out of the Shadows). And Alien: Out of the Shadows will get its own audiobook featuring the voice of Rutger Hauer. Insight Editions will release a new book, The Weyland-Yutani Report.

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Back to the Future Week… in videos

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October 23, 2015

Plenty of videos have arrived at YouTube for Back to the Future Week, including many on Back to the Future Day itself. If you missed any, here is your chance to catch up.

First up, here is a Toyota Mirai commercial featuring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd:

Marty McFly and Doc Brown return to 2015 courtesy of The Jimmy Kimmel Show:

Universal Pictures produced a fun trailer for Jaws 19:

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BTTF Week–Get your own screen-used Back to the Future II hoverboard and other props this weekend

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October 22, 2015

Entertainment memorabilia store and auction house ScreenUsed will be holding a Back to the Future auction this Saturday, October 24, 2015, in Los Angeles, with more than 125 original screen-used and production made props and wardrobe memorabilia, including an original hoverboard from Back to the Future II. It’s all part of the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future and Back to the Future Week.

In addition to the hoverboard, the auction includes mock newspapers from the movies, “Save the Clock Tower” brochures, a car driven by Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II, a copy of the infamous Gray’s Sports Almanac, one of Mary Steenburgen’s 19th century dresses from Back to the Future III, and other items from the production set.

A portion of the auction proceeds will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

View the Screenused auction catalog here in your browser or download the Screenused auction catalog here in PDF format.

Click here to register for the Screenused auction on iCollector and bid now!

C.J. Bunce
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BTTF Week–Happy “Back to the Future Day”!

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October 21, 2015

The Future Is Now.

Or at 4:29 p.m. Pacific time today, to be exact.

That’s right Back to the Future Day is here. Soon the future will be the past.

What? You haven’t been paying attention? We explained it all here.

What to do? Why not go see Back to the Future in theaters all over again today at select screens across the country. But it’s not being recognized only in the States. Germany, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Canada, all will be screening the trilogy at theaters across their countries, and for the first time the trilogy will be released in Russia.

Or if you’re lucky enough to be in Indianapolis, attend the first Back to the Future in Concert, watching the movie with the score provided live by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra–nothing gives you goosebumps like hearing the score to a film in person and with the movie playing overhead. It’s only the beginning of the tour so check it out here. A similar show is scheduled for Melbourne, Australia, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing.

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Blast from the Past–Back to the Future Week begins!

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October 18, 2015

1985 and 1989. Here we are at the 30th anniversary of director Bob Zemeckis’s sci-fi classic Back to the Future and only a few days from 4:29 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, the day Marty McFly went to the future in his DeLorean time machine in 1989’s Back to the Future II. The principal cast–Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and even Huey Lewis–are scheduled to meet for a reunion screening in New York to celebrate Back to the Future Day.

An interesting happening of the future year 2015 as predicted in Back to the Future II is the Chicago Cubs win the 2015 World Series. Christopher Lloyd said last week that he will reprise his role as Doc Brown to throw out the first pitch of the third game of the World Series in Chicago if the Cubs make it that far and the powers that be make it so.

The craziest bit is the shot in the dark taken by Back to the Future II co-writer Bob Gale who came up with the idea of the Cubs winning the World Series in 2015, back when he wrote the screenplay in the 1980s, and the real possibility that the Cubbies will actually succeed this year. Had the Cubs won Game 1 of the National League Championship Series vs. the New York Mets yesterday–and kept on a four-game winning streak–the team could have locked in the World Series appearance on NLCS Game 4–right smack dab on October 21, 2015–yep, right on Back to the Future Day. But… they lost Game 1 Saturday. Still–the Cubs have six more scheduled games in the series to make it happen. Hear that Cubs players? It is your density. I mean destiny.

We at borg.com are joining in with our own Back to the Future Week, including a review of the new documentary hitting theaters this week: Back in Time, and a preview of Issue #1 of IDW Publishing’s new Back to the Future comic book series, and anything else we can think of.

First up, have you pre-ordered the 30th anniversary box set of the Back to the Future trilogy? Get it now at a pre-order discount here from Amazon.com.

Let’s start off the week with a preview of a short film produced by Toyota, marketing the release on Back to the Future Day of the Mirai–Toyota’s new, futuristic, hydrogen fuel cell car. The Toyota ad features Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, to premiere in its entirety on October 21. Here’s a sneak preview:

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