From recording the sound of dry ice on metal to create the groans of Alien: Isolation's dying space station to twisting door knobs to simulate the sound of Assassin's Creed's 18th Century weapons, the teams responsible must be inventive.
The plot in District 9 involved a large spaceship that suddenly appeared above Johannesburg, filled with diseased and dying space aliens.
The drama, which tells the story of 100 teens sent down from a dying space station called the Ark to a post-nuclear Earth, fits neatly into a few recognizable genres (sci-fi adventure story, post-apocalyptic survivor's tale, YA quest narrative, etc).
Everyone knows you'll die in space without a space suit.
The theme is expanded by Colin Matthews's sophisticated music for Pluto and a quartet of new compositions, including Mark-Anthony Turnage's apocalyptic Ceres and Brett Dean's edgy, atmospheric homage to Komarov, the first man to die in space.
Speaking of Avatar, James Cameron's die-hard, hard-to-die space opera has become the first movie to cross $700m as it grossed a further $14m in its 11th weekend on release for $706.9m.
When the big-band era died, the space was converted into a roller rink, a natural for the highly polished floor, as safe for roller skates as it was for high heels.
Perhaps they looked at their own past offerings, where a woman relentlessly ages and a penguin is forced to seek companionship with a monstrous cadaver and the world's loneliest man dies in space.
Once on that lowland, the bergs are carried along by the slow-flowing nitrogen ice, often ending up clumped together in large groups (such as the 60-km-long Challenger Colles, upper right, a feature whose name honors the seven astronauts who died onboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986).
Is James Corden dying in space or not.
