LANDMARK EXPANDS WITH `ALIENS' DEAL.

Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer

North Hollywood-based Landmark Entertainment Group, continuing to extend its business into Asia, said Thursday it will build a $50 million thrill ride based on the ``Alien'' franchise at a South Korean theme park.

``Aliens: 3-D'' will open in late 1999 at the Everland Park complex in Yong-in, combining 3-D technology and live stunts. Partners on the project are 20th Century Fox, which will bring out the fourth movie in the series this fall with ``Alien Resurrection,'' and Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co.

The attraction will require the use of 3-D glasses and be the first 3-D installation of any significance in South Korea.

Jae Yong Bae, a Samsung managing director, said the idea for the attraction came from Landmark and noted that the ``Alien'' films are extremely popular in Korea. ``Twentieth Century Fox is one of the world's leading film companies, and we are hoping to build a long-term relationship with them in the theme-park field,'' he said in a statement.

Samsung and Landmark, which sold half of itself last year for $50 million to Prince Alaweed bin Talal bin Abdulziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, worked together four years ago on Samsung's ``Starquest'' pavilion for the Taejon World Expo in South Korea. In recent months, Landmark has signed deals to design theme parks in China and the Philippines as well as South Korea.

Landmark designed the ``Jurassic Park'' ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, and its ``Star Trek'' attraction is due to open in November at the Las Vegas Hilton.

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Photo: (Color) This rendering shows the concept behind Landmark's planned $50 million ``Aliens: 3-D'' ride planned for South Korea.