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One Final "Homage" Trailer For ALIEN: EARTH, Which Premieres Today — GeekTyrant
FX released one final 'Homage' trailer for Alien: Earth , the first two episodes of which drop today. The trailer is a riff on the classic Alien teaser. Created and directed by Noah Hawley, the series is set to premiere this August and promises a gripping new take on the franchise. The story kicks off when a specimen collection ship crash lands on Earth, pulling a woman played by Sydney Chandler and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers into a terrifying discovery that threatens the planet. The ensemble cast also includes Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Moe Bar-El, and Adarsh Gourav. Hawley calls the series 'a character study.' While the trailers have hinted at the horror and scale. The series explaores human conflicts, and how the classic themes of corporate greed and survival are being twisted into something new. Expect plenty of sci-fi awesomness, power struggles, and existential dread wrapped in a world that feels both familiar and terrifyingly fresh. The series takes place two years before Ellen Ripley's first encounter in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, following a tactical unit sent to investigate the Maginot after its catastrophic landing. This series explores the fascinating concept of a human mind being transferred into a Synthetic body. That character is Wendy, who's played by Sydney Chandler. This new footage hints that this new technology comes with consequences. The series is set in the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, 'Wendy' and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. According to previously released details, the series will feature five different monsters, making this easily one of the most creature-heavy entries in the franchise's history. Enjoy the show when you watch it! It's pretty freakin' badass!
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Love Con Revenge Trailer: Romance Scam Victims Get Help From The Tinder Swindler Star in Netflix Series
Have you been the victim of a romance scam? Help is on the way — courtesy of Netflix. Cecilie Fjellhøy, one of the victims duped by the titular con man in the Netflix doc The Tinder Swindler, teams up with a private investigator to help other victims in Love Con Revenge, a six-episode docuseries premiering Friday, Sept. 5 on the streamer. More from TVLine Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Trailer Reveals Roles for 8 New Guest Stars - Get Premiere Date Mark Ruffalo's Task, From Mare of Easttown EP, Gets September Premiere Date on HBO - Watch Trailer Upload Final Season Trailer: A Life Coach Chinchilla Offers Nate Help, While AI Threatens to Destroy Lakeview - Watch In the trailer, which you can watch below, Fjellhøy explains that when The Tinder Swindler became a worldwide sensation, women began reaching out to her with their own stories of being conned by manipulative Romeos. 'These scammers have been getting away with this for way too long,' she decides, so she and private eye Brianne Joseph hit the road to investigate these men who are 'almost too good to be true,' confront them on camera and find some measure of justice for the women involved. 'I never imagined my story would resonate the way it has,' Fjellhøy said in a statement. 'Since The Tinder Swindler, I've heard from people all over the world who've been targeted by criminals hiding behind love. Love Con Revenge is a way for me to use what I've learned to help others heal, reclaim their voices, their power, and their lives.' 'Love Con Revenge uncovers the jaw-dropping scale of romance fraud — and the emotional and financial toll it takes on victims,' creative director James O'Reilly added. 'This is a truly modern crime that is exploding in the United States and around the world. It's been incredible to follow Cecilie and Brianne as they investigate these cases — to bring justice to the victims, and hold the perpetrators to account who've gotten away with this for far too long.' Press PLAY below for a sneak peek at , and tell us in the comments: Will you be watching? Solve the daily Crossword
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Disney Brings Marvel, Star Wars, Alien And Other Fan Favorites To Webtoon
Disney (NYSE: DIS) is teaming up with digital storytelling platform Webtoon (NASD: WBTN) to bring some of its biggest stories to the vertically-scrolling mobile comics format favored by today's readers. According to a joint announcement by the two companies, Webtoon will offer titles including The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Star Wars, Alien and Disney As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale on the platform, with more selections and original content coming soon. Under the deal unveiled today, Webtoon will feature around 100 comics from Marvel, Star Wars, 20th Century Studios (e.g. Alien) and Disney in a new section of the English-language app. Fans can sample a few free episodes, then unlock new chapters using Webtoon coins that are purchased on the site. Considering the small number of titles at launch, the costs of reformatting legacy content into vertical format at scale, and historical limitations to the size of the digital comics market in North America, it is unlikely this deal will make much tangible difference to either company's bottom line in the near future, but the alliance of two heavyweights occupying different quadrants of the comics and pop culture space does have symbolic and strategic value. Webtoon gets to add some of the world's most lucrative IP to its existing library of hundreds of thousands of original works that span the gamut from user-generated content to best-sellers like Lore Olympus and Tower of God, potentially helping it broaden its appeal in growth markets outside of northeast Asia. Webtoon reports about 150 million monthly active users worldwide for its serialized, vertically scrolling comics, optimized for quick reading on mobile phones. Its demographics skew younger and more female, with content that leans into fantasy, romance, horror, comedy and slice of life genres. Superheroes have been conspicuous in their absence. One imagines that will change when Marvel shows up in force. For Disney, the deal represents an opportunity to reach a new generation of digital comics fans on their platform of choice. Marvel Comics, the longtime market-share leader in sales of periodical comics, traditionally sells to older superhero fans who buy physical copies in comic shops or download entire issues on apps like Marvel Unlimited or Amazon's comiXology. So anything that promises to bring those audiences closer together could provide a shot in the arm for a comics publishing business in the grip of some external uncertainties. 'Our collaboration with Webtoon will allow us to expand our beloved franchise universes on a best-in-class digital platform,' said Daniel Fink, SVP, Head of Digital Innovation, Disney Consumer Products, in a prepared statement. 'We look forward to engaging with their dedicated, global user base while welcoming future fans to experience a redefined form of Disney storytelling that will have a lasting impact in the digital comics space.' According to today's announcement, the two companies will also produce original webcomic series from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century and Star Wars properties, presumably optimized for the format and storytelling style of the Webtoon platform. 'The Disney, Marvel, 20th Century and Star Wars brands are among the most legendary, creative and successful in the industry,' said Yongsoo Kim, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Webtoon, quoted in the announcement. 'We're thrilled to kick off this collaboration with iconic series from their comic book catalog – and this is just the start! Together, we're brining this legendary storytelling to a new generation of mobile-native comic fans, while giving existing fans a new way to experience the series and characters they love.' Earlier this summer, ahead of the Disney partnership announcement, Kim was even more straightforward about Webtoon's ultimate vision for the industry. 'The vertical scroll format revolutionized digital comics,' he wrote in a 'prediction' for the future of digital comics. "Now that same innovation is being applied to traditional comics as publishers digitize and reformat their catalogues for digital distribution. Hard-to-find issues and content will be a thing of the past, as the entire history of comics is digitized. This will open up a new revenue stream to publishers' back catalogues and – even more exciting – introduce a younger, mobile-first audience to the incredible art and storytelling that have defined comics for generations." Both companies appear open to experimentation to grow the market. Webtoon has collaborated with Marvel in the past on projects like The Eternals: The 500-Year War and a series of webtoon adaptations in South Korea. The company has also partnered with DC Comics, Dark Horse, Archie, IDW and others on various series, including the popular Wayne Family Adventures (DC). Marvel recently announced a digital distribution deal with DSTLRY, a startup founded by Amazon ComiXology veterans, operating on a different revenue model from Webtoon. The announcement is the latest in a series of moves that Webtoon has undertaken since spinning off from its South Korean parent company Naver in an IPO last summer, to demonstrate continuing momentum in an industry that has contracted from pandemic-era highs. In the past year, the company has leaned hard into its role of generating new IP for media development, its back-end technology, its in-house production studio, and now the value of its vertically-scrolling interface as a new presentation format for legacy comics content. The Disney partnership announcement accompanied Webtoon's earnings report for Q2 (ending 6/30), which showed the company reporting $348.3M revenue, up 8.5% or 5.5% on a currency adjusted basis, and exceeding the top end of the guidance it gave investors earlier this year. Net losses narrowed to $3.9 million from $76.6 million the prior year, reflecting lower expenses. Shares were up sharply in after-hours trading immediately following the earnings report and the Disney announcement.
