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May 6 2013 03:46 PM ET

'Falling Skies' cast talks Spielberg, love triangles, and more at EW's CapeTown Film Festival -- VIDEO

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On Friday May 3, the crowd gathered for Escape From New York at the EW CapeTown Film Festival was also treated to a special screening of the first hour of the season 3 premiere of Falling Skies and a Q&A with members of the cast.

During the Q&A session, Noah Wyle talked about Steven Spielberg being involved with every aspect of the show, from casting to editorial work. “But it’s not a presence that you feel on the set necessarily, other than wanting to do your best work, cause you know it’s being watched and handled by one of the preemptive storytellers of our time.”

Watch the video for more hints about the show below:

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May 4 2013 11:23 AM ET

'Falling Skies': Scoop about season 3 from EW's CapeTown Film Festival

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Fans of TNT’s Falling Skies now have just a little over a month to wait before they see how the 2nd Mass is getting along with new alien arrivals, how Anne’s pregnancy is going, how that creepy crawly parasite is affecting Hal, and the next chapters to other cliffhangers from last summer’s season 2 finale. Ahead of the show’s June 9 season 3 premiere date, EW screened the first half of the two-hour season opener at our inaugural CapeTown Film Festival on Friday night at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre.

The audience at the event sponsored by TNT was also treated to a Q&A with showrunner Remi Aubuchon and cast members Noah Wyle (Tom), Moon Bloodgood (Anne), Maxim Knight (Matt), and Drew Roy (Hal).

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Apr 26 2013 09:42 AM ET

'Falling Skies': Moon Bloodgood discusses Tom and Anne's baby and her own real-life new bundle of joy -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

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Falling Skies has drawn in viewers over its first two seasons not only with its ever-morphing alien mythology, delightfully grotesque horror moments, and intense action scenes, but also with its family drama — which will get more complicated in the upcoming season 3 with a new addition to the Mason family: Tom and Anne’s baby.

Playing Dr. Anne Glass, 2nd Mass medic and love interest for Noah Wyle’s Tom Mason, has given actress Moon Bloodgood the chance to flex some of the same action-hero muscles as she did in other sci-fi projects, like Terminator Salvation. But in Falling Skies’ third season, which premieres on TNT on June 9, Anne is not quite so battle-ready since she’s very pregnant. The new season picks up about seven months after the season 2 finale when Anne found out she’s pregnant after the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston.

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Mar 21 2013 05:12 PM ET

TNT announces summer premiere dates for new Dwayne Johnson series, 'Rizzoli & Isles,' 'Falling Skies,' more

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The countdown to the final episodes of the 2012-2013 season for many broadcast network shows began last week, as ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS and the CW announced their season finale dates. But fans of TNT shows can now mark their calendars for the return of shows like Falling Skies and Rizzoli & Isles. The cable network announced their summer premiere dates today.

TNT has four new series lined up for this summer. The first to debut is The Hero, a reality competition series that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson hosts. TNT describes it as a show that “will bring nine ordinary people together and assign them various missions testing their brains, their brawn and even their morality.” The Hero will be the lead-in for another new competition series, the Survivor-esque 72 Hours, which drops three competing teams in the wilderness with only one bottle of water and a GPS. The contestants have three days to find a hidden briefcase full of cash.

Check out the full list of TNT’s summer premieres below: READ FULL STORY »

Feb 26 2013 10:00 AM ET

'Falling Skies': TNT unveils first footage from season 3, announces season 2 DVD/Blu-ray release date -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Fans of Falling Skies still have what feels like a long wait until the TNT sci-fi show returns this summer, but here are a couple things to whet your appetite for intense alien-fighting drama before the season 3 premiere.

Check out your first glimpse of season 3 in the EW exclusive video below. The writers and producers review questions left unanswered by season 2’s cliffhanger ending, followed by the debut of footage from the upcoming season at the end of the video.

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Nov 29 2012 07:42 AM ET

Best of 2012 (Behind the Scenes): The making of the 'Falling Skies' aliens

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Building molds of giant, insect-like legs, directing a motion-capture performer to move like an alien, bouncing around ideas of how to freak out the viewers at home — it’s all in a day’s work for the team behind alien invasion show Falling Skies.

The TNT sci-fi drama has brought the invasion’s survivors face-to-face with all manner of extraterrestrial foes from the six-legged to the massive and metallic to the tall and regal. Here, in a piece originally published last August, we find out how. For more stories behind this year’s top TV and movie moments, click here for EW.com’s Best of 2012: Behind the Scenes coverage.

And at any moment there could be a new threat to the 2nd Mass, the Boston-born militia regiment at the center of the show. Falling Skies, which earned a 2012 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, features the work of two vfx companies: MASTERSFX, which primarily works on the show’s practical effects, and Zoic Studios, which focuses on the digital side. The two companies have teamed up before for such shows as Six Feet Under, True Blood and Fringe.

It’s a hybrid approach – the marrying of the practical and the computer-generated – that’s becoming increasingly popular in the entertainment industry. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 24 2012 05:00 PM ET

'Falling Skies': Drew Roy weighs in on our 6 grossest, creepiest, most shocking moments

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How often do the masterminds behind Falling Skies sit around the writers room saying, “OK, so how can we totally gross out our audience in this episode?”

“Oh, every day,” showrunner Remi Aubuchon admitted to EW following last weekend’s season 2 finale.

All that bouncing around of ideas about how to creep out the viewers at home certainly produced plenty of scares in the sci-fi TNT show’s first two seasons.

Here EW re-visits the six grossest, creepiest, most shocking moments of Falling Skies, with a little help from actor Drew Roy (Hal Mason) filling us in on how it all went down on set. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 23 2012 06:47 PM ET

'Falling Skies' casting: Sci-fi fave Doug Jones joins the show. Plus: An 'ER' reunion

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Production on season 3 of TNT’s Falling Skies started in Vancouver, B.C. this week, and that means new characters are joining the 2nd Mass in their fight against the aliens that have turned Earth into a post- apocalyptic wasteland/war zone.

EW has confirmed that sci-fi fave Doug Jones has joined the show’s cast, as Jones and showrunner Remi Aubuchon tweeted on Sunday. Jones is known for such roles as Abe Sapien and the Angel of Death in the Hellboy movies and the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. A TNT rep tells EW that Jones will portray the new alien introduced at the end of last weekend’s season 2 finale.

No word yet on whether Jones, known for his performances in prosthetics and rubber suits, will don makeup for the bat-like — but humanoid — new species, or whether he’ll portray the character through performance capture, as done with Falling Skies‘ overlord aliens.

Season 3 will also feature some new human characters. EW has confirmed that Gloria Reuben, who played Jeanie Boulet on ER, will be reuniting with fellow ER alum Noah Wyle for a five-episide arc. Robert Sean Leonard will also be joining the cast for five episodes.  Deadline first reported the news. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 20 2012 01:00 AM ET

'Falling Skies': Season 2 is over. Time to review the mysteries yet to be solved -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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The sophomore season of Falling Skies wrapped up tonight with an emotional, frightening, intense, heartwarming, heartbreaking, cliffhanger-y (I could go on, but I’ll stop myself here…) finale, leaving us to impatiently wait until Summer 2013 to find out what happens next.

Showrunner Remi Aubuchon chatted with EW, revealing answers to some of our burning questions we had after watching the finale, but there are still plenty of mysteries that will have fans debating for months.

EW has an exclusive video that features Aubuchon, along with some of his fellow Falling Skies masterminds, discussing the complexities that were thrown into the mix in the season 2 finale. Check out the video below to review some of the show’s remaining unanswered questions. Let it be a springboard for your speculation and discussion – then you might want to bookmark this page and return to it next summer, when, hey, let’s admit it, you’ll probably need a refresher before the long-awaited season 3 premiere. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 19 2012 10:00 PM ET

'Falling Skies' season finale: Showrunner Remi Aubuchon answers your burning questions!

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Falling Skies has been spicing up its addicting recipe of sci-fi, family drama, action and major creep-outs throughout its second season, and it all came to a head in tonight’s finale.

SPOILER ALERT! Be afraid, very afraid, almost as afraid as you are of crawlies, to read on if you haven’t yet watched the Falling Skies season finale.

The 2nd Mass’ season-long journey to Charleston ended in disappointment and new lessons for the Revolutionary War-alluding show. Fans got some fun surprises (and spine-tingling ones!) in “A More Perfect Union,” the season 2 capper to the Steven Spielberg-produced TNT show.

After watching the cliffhanger-filled finale (and taking some time to catch our breath afterward) EW chatted with showrunner Remi Aubuchon. The writer/producer is currently knee-deep in prep for season 3, which begins shooting in less than three days! But he took a break from his work in Vancouver, Canada to talk at length with us about shooting the finale and what fans can expect when Falling Skies returns next summer for another 10-episode season.

Aubuchon talked about the new addition to their lineup of alien species, revealed what Red Eye was silently saying to Ben as he died and cleared up a point of confusion about the skitters that’s been a subject of great debate among fans since Lourdes and Anne made a major discovery last season. Read on for answers to your burning questions. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 2 2012 10:00 AM ET

Skitters and crawlies and fishheads, oh my! The making of the 'Falling Skies' aliens

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Building molds of giant, insect-like legs, directing a motion-capture performer to move like an alien, bouncing around ideas of how to freak out the viewers at home – it’s all in a day’s work for the team behind alien invasion show Falling Skies.

The TNT sci-fi drama, now nearing the end of its second season, has brought the invasion’s survivors face-to-face with all manner of extraterrestrial foes from the six-legged to the massive and metallic to the tall and regal.

And at any moment there could be a new threat to the 2nd Mass, the Boston-born militia regiment at the center of the show. The most recent episode introduced fans to crawlies – and yes, they’re as squirm-inducing as they sound.

Falling Skies, which just earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, features the work of two vfx companies: MASTERSFX, which primarily works on the show’s practical effects, and Zoic Studios, which focuses on the digital side. The two companies have teamed up before for such shows as Six Feet Under, True Blood and Fringe.

It’s a hybrid approach – the marrying of the practical and the computer-generated – that’s becoming increasingly popular in the entertainment industry. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 11 2012 03:41 PM ET

TNT renews 'Falling Skies' for third season

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TNT is ordering a third season of alien invasion drama Falling Skies.

The network is ordering 10 new episodes for 2013. Guest stars this season have included Brandon Jay McLaren (The Killing), who plays a resident engineer and technology expert, and Terry O’Quinn (Lost), who is appearing in this season’s final two episodes as Tom’s (Noah Wyle) mentor and former professor. The show is currently averaging 5.9 million viewers when including DVR playback.

May 11 2012 03:41 PM ET

'Falling Skies' season 2: 'Not as black and white as we thought it was,' says showrunner -- EXCLUSIVE POSTERS

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The last time we saw Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) on TNT’s Falling Skies, he was being beamed up into an alien spaceship — his fate uncertain. But if these exclusive teaser posters for season 2 are any indication, it won’t be long before the professor is back on Earth with guns blazing.

One of the new posters (click below) for the Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi drama features the tagline “The battle is just getting started,” and depicts the 2nd Mass (along with our favorite bad-boy John Pope!) armed and on a mission. While the new images provide some clues as to where the next chapter of the alien-invasion drama is headed, it also raises plenty of questions. For instance, who is the harnessed girl with the moldy growth on her face? And why is Tom having a moment with a Mech in the rain?

Despite the poster’s defiant taglines, showrunner Remi Aubuchon says that when the series picks up on June 17, it’s not just going to be “us versus the aliens” anymore. “I think as we get to know our enemy better, we’re going to see it’s not as black and white as we thought it was,” he says. ”There’s much more to it than we ever expected there would be and I think that will be surprising.”

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