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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Today in Awesome

Entertainment Weekly Reunites Cast Of Clueless, E.T., Star Wars & More!

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:33 pm, October 6th, 2012

I’m thrilled Alicia Silverstone has reunited with her Clueless director Amy Heckerling for the new comedy Vamps but this really takes me back. Entertainment Weekly regularly reunites casts of famous films and television shows and their recent issue has some pretty exciting entries (they’ve also teamed with CharityBuzz this year for some cool auctions including a handwritten first draft of Clueless). Take a look at the reunited casts of E.T., Arrested Development, and more!

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so long and thanks for all the fish

Carlo Rambaldi, Special Effects Legend and Creator of E.T., Dies at 86

by Alanna Bennett | 4:01 pm, August 11th, 2012

The Grey’s of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Alien xenomorph, E.T.. Carlo Rambaldi, Oscar-winning special-effects master, created them all. He passed away this Friday in his home in Italy.

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Today in Depressing

Conceptual Star Wars Artist Ralph McQuarrie Passes Away

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:30 pm, March 4th, 2012

Legendary conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. He’s responsible for helping George Lucas get Star Wars made with his conceptual designs of many of the characters and setting. McQuarrie went on to design for Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Back to the Future, Cocoon, Total Recall, and the original Battlestar Galactica series. Take a look at some of his amazing works of art. 

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Together At Last

E.T. Phones Home Thanks To A Coastguard Body Search In The Ocean

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:48 pm, January 5th, 2012

You’re a concerned citizen. You’re walking by the ocean and spot what appears to be a lifeless body floating there. Of course you call emergency services. I bet you’d never imagine this story would have a happy ending, right? It does. The body was actually a life-size E.T. doll stolen last year. It’s been returned to its owner. What is this, I don’t even… 

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Burger Joint Where People Die Every Week

by Alanna Bennett | 5:13 pm, July 25th, 2011

If we were to open a burger establishment this is what it would be called. Talk about “mystery meat.” (At Nerdalicious)

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Power Grid

10 Kids Who Discovered Horrifying or Adorable Alien Monsters

by Susana Polo | 12:45 pm, June 7th, 2011

We’ve said it before: Super 8 is this summer’s Inception, if only because a lot of its promise lies in the fact that we don’t really know how the plot of the movie is going to go. When we realized that we had to make an Inception Power Grid despite having only the faintest idea what the movie was about, we defaulted to listing great thieves, which ultimately didn’t have much to do with what actually happened in the movie. We recognize that we may wind up, again, slightly off the mark with this Power Grid, which is dedicated to all the little kids out there that managed to befriend the gamut of alien races and improbably survive because audiences don’t much like watching little kids succumbing to the true horrors of alien related deaths in science fiction.

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where does he get those wonderful toys

What Toys Do When We’re Not Looking

by Jamie Frevele | 2:31 pm, April 2nd, 2011

Man, if I had known 20 years ago that pretending my action figures were interacting with lawn ornaments, household appliances, other gangs of toys, etc. could have been considered art, I would be super rich right now. (Because my action figures did do all those things.) Artist Thurston Roscoe‘s photo collection of his imagined “behind the scenes” activities of action figures is available for purchase, but doesn’t it just give you ideas? More after the jump.

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