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"By way of comparison, the latest phenomenon in the book trade, Fifty Shades of Grey, sold 664, 000 in its highest week of sales so far, " said David Walter from Nielsen BookScan, which has been monitoring book sales in the UK since 1998.

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The script (by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Larry Ferguson) is designed to keep us asking ourselves the fundamental questions: Who will get eaten by the alien?

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