AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers:

Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters), Ronald Shusett ("Alien" characters),

Stars:

Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sanaa Lathan	...	Alexa Woods
Raoul Bova	...	Sebastian de Rosa
Lance Henriksen	...	Charles Bishop Weyland
Ewen Bremner	...	Graeme Miller
Colin Salmon	...	Maxwell Stafford
Tommy Flanagan	...	Mark Verheiden
Joseph Rye	...	Joe Connors
Agathe de La Boulaye	...	Adele Rousseau
Carsten Norgaard	...	Rusten Quinn
Sam Troughton	...	Thomas Parks
Petr Jákl	...	Stone
Pavel Bezdek	...	Bass
Kieran Bew	...	Klaus
Carsten Voigt	...	Mikkel
Jan Pavel Filipensky	...	Boris (as Jan Filipensky)

Storyline

When a private satellite encounters an unidentified source of heat in Antarctica and it is found to be a pyramid buried deep underground , a search team comprising of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers is sent to Antarctica to find out more . Once there , the team comes across signs which indicate that the place is inhabited by an unknown alien species . It is not long before the aliens begin to hunt the team members . At the same time , a trio of coming-of-age Predators have arrived to collect the skulls of the aliens as trophies , and the humans are caught between a deadly battle between the two warring species .

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Plot Keywords:

alien | predator | pyramid | satellite | antarctica | 

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Taglines:

Whoever wins... We lose.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore

Details

Official Sites:

20th Century Fox [fr] Twentieth Century Fox

Country:

USA UK Czech Republic Canada Germany

Language:

English Italian

Release Date:

13 August 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

AVP

Filming Locations:

Courmayeur, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$813,102 (Japan) (17 December 2004)

Gross:

$4,775,890 (Japan) (21 January 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Davis Entertainment, Brandywine Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min 104 min (extended) 108 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When one of the explorers is searching the whaling compound and walks past a door to a building, there is a shot from within the building in which the red light from the guy's flare comes through the crack in the door to form a flat vertical beam that's picked up by the dust/snow from inside the room, just like the blue-green scanner from the salvage scene at the beginning of Aliens.

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Goofs

Icebreakers have round prows, not angled ones.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Technician: Hey. Hey, hey, come here, take a look at this.

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Crazy Credits

The end credits color and style (green computer text on black) are the same as the display of "Mother," the onboard computer in "Alien," right down to the underlining of important text (in this case, the department titles).

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Connections

Spoofed in Robot Chicken: Some Like It Hitman (2011)

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Soundtracks

"La Bamba"
Traditional
Courtesy of Extreme Production Music USA

User Reviews

Sheepdom at its finest

Another great movie spoiled by bad initial critique. And most people jumping on the bandwagon. They moved production of this movie out of Hollywood and lots of people virtually lost jobs to some east European studios where they shot most of the scenes. Lots of anger was present in Hollywood about this, no surprise that initial reviews were strictly negative. This movie is superb in nearly all aspects I watched it more times then all the prequels combined. I like the lead actress and Henriksen as Bishop Weyland, some crew man are actually more interesting then the crew in some Alien prequels, and of course the CGI is finally watchable and say state of the art, not some lame blinking LEDs all over.