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Major Legal Snafu Grounding Los Angeles Alien Battle?

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Deadline is reporting that a real battle is brewing between rival aliens-invade-Los Angeles films Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles. Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio behind the big budget Battle: Los Angeles, is exploring its legal options. At issue: Greg and Colin Strause, the owners of visual effects house Hydraulx, were paid millions of dollars to generate visual effects work for Battle: Los Angeles. But Hydraulx never informed SPE the siblings were directing a VFX-driven rival alien invasion feature that will hit theaters four months before SPE’s March 12, 2011 release. SPE higher-ups only discovered it was in a competition after Universal Pictures released a trailer that showed Los Angeles denizens being vacuumed into the sky by hovering space ships. Click the link for more on this developing story. Skyline hits theaters November 12 (for now).

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We’re Giving Away Tickets to ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ World Premiere in Los Angeles on May 8!

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The masked modern horror icons return to the big screen in Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 on May 17, the first film in a brand new reboot trilogy from director Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master, Deep Blue Sea). But why wait that long?!

Lionsgate is hosting the WORLD PREMIERE of The Strangers: Chapter 1 at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 8, and Bloody Disgusting has been provided with 45 TICKETS to giveaway to anyone who’s able to attend the big premiere next week!

Want to see the film before it hits theaters nationwide on May 17? ENTER TO WIN!

Madelaine Petsch (“Riverdale”), Froy Gutierrez (Hocus Pocus 2), Rachel Shenton (The Silent Child), Ema Horvath (“Rings of Power”) and Gabe Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) star.

Based on the original 2008 cult horror franchise, the project features Petsch, who drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.

Here’s the full official synopsis: “After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.”

Renny Harlin (CliffhangerDeep Blue SeaDie Hard 2) is directing from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (The Freak BrothersDue Date). Lionsgate will distribute worldwide.

The Strangers began in 2008 with Bryan Bertino’s original home invasion horror movie, a terrifying film that introduced three masked killers who returned 10 years later with The Strangers: Prey at Night in 2018. The first film took place in a remote house in the woods while the sequel brought the murderous Man in the Mask, Dollface and Pinup Girl into a trailer park.

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