Just in case you're still on the fence about how 'real' the movie is, Jim Vejvoda at IGN.com has reported that  Alaskan newspaper The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner admits that Universal Pictures has paid $22,500 to the Alaska Press Cub and a Calista Scholarship Fund to settle claims that the studio "created a number of Web sites purporting to be 'news archives'" in their viral marketing campaign for their new alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind.

OK, so Universal has admitted that it created phony news articles and claimed Alaskan journalists had written them, and also used real news stories without permission.  Universal fabricated news articles and passed them off as being real articles from the Nome Nugget, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and the Anchorage Chronicle among other publications.

"Universal agrees to the permanent disabling and removal of, and represents and warrants that it has already permanently disabled access to and removed from the Internet, all news articles," the paper quotes the settlement as saying.

Bwah hahaha!!  Busted!  We're still confirming rumors about ET suing for slander... stay tuned

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Milla Jovovich in 'The Fourth Kind'

A few weeks back I posted an article asking if the purported "true archival footage" in The Fourth Kind movie was fact or fiction. I concluded it was fiction, although without 100% proof of that, it is very difficult to be 100% sure.

In the latest news, apparently an insider who worked on the film has admitted that the footage woven into the film as "real archival footage" was faked with actors.

From io9:

I can assure you it is totally fake. The interviews were shot in High Def on a soundstage with actors and then made to look like bad home video. The college logos and video break-up was added by a visual effects team.

Of course, the identity of the insider remains a mystery, so this quotation alone can't be taken as verification one way or the other. Nonetheless, I find io9 to be quite a reputable website and as such I think it's fairly reasonable to expect that they wouldn't post the above article without at least considering their source, quote, "a production insider," as legit.

One thing is for sure though, and that is The Fourth Kind has certainly generated itself a lot of buzz with its claims of authenticity.

Watch an interesting featurette on The Fourth Kind movie focusing on how the film accurately portrays the commonalities of alien abduction cases as researched by paranormal writer/researcher Marie D. Jones:

Watch a freaky clip from The Fourth Kind in which Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) is hypnotized and regressed to remember her alien abduction.

Watch the sixth TV Spot for The Fourth Kind which references a review of the movie from Larry King, alongside some more creepy footage:

Despite the debate over whether or not The Fourth Kind is based on fact, fiction, or a mixture of both, the film looks great. Check out the following clip in which Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) attempts to explain to Will Patton's character that aliens abducted her baby.

Watch the following featurette on The Fourth Kind titled 'Abduction'.  The featurette proceeds through documentary evidence of the various kinds of alien encounters, beginning with the first and ending with the fourth, that which the film's premise is based upon.

I still fail to see any evidence to corroborate what the featurette says regarding the "actual" evidence apparently recorded in Nome, Alaska. The evidence supposedly "integrated into the film" seems, at least at this point, to be fake. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

Watch the fifth TV Spot for The Fourth Kind:

With The Fourth Kind movie starting to generate a lot of buzz, especially on the subject of whether it is real or not, I thought I'd post a gallery of all the images and poster's I've seen to date.

Full gallery is after the jump.

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A new poster for The Fourth Kind has been released.  Check it out: