For a good portion of the audience who watched Dr Clemens tell an emotionally crippled Ellen Ripley that Newt had drown in her cryotube, this was an affront to everything that James Cameron had done with Aliens. And despite those early comics seeing an eventual republish with the original names restored, as well as a possible revival in Neil Blomkamp’s ... [Read More]

Today, actress Sigourney Weaver, will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Deadline sat down and spoke to Sigourney Weaver about her life's work. In the wide-ranging interview, Weaver reminisces about her time on Ridley Scott's Alien, transitioning to an action hero in Aliens and the trouble David Fincher had on Alien 3. Deadline asks her ... [Read More]

Alien: Romulus is now out across the United States, UK and Europe! Directed by Fede Alvarez, Alien: Romulus takes the Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers, led by Rain (Cailee Spaeny), come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Alien: Romulus ... [Read More]

I believe it would be fair to say that Aliens' 4K release garnered itself a fair bit of criticism for the use of AI (and the results it generated) and the removal of film grain. While catching up with James Cameron, The Hollywood Reporter asked the Aliens writer/director what he thought of the complaints. So you've also had ... [Read More]

Though they were suspiciously absent from this year's Alien Day celebrations, Reebok has just announced (via Bloody Disgusting) that they are adding another variant of Bug Stompers to their collection! First featured in Aliens, with both high and low top versions worn by Ellen Ripley and Bishop, the Bug Stompers made a big splash in modern Alien ... [Read More]

Talking to Rolling Stone about his experience working on Alien: Romulus and his role of Andy, Cailee Spaeny's synthetic brother in the new film, the outlet noted how his character's name broke the naming convention we've seen in the series (Alien: Covenant did the same with Walter). Acknowledging the point, Jonsson went on to talk about the ... [Read More]

In a new interview with Variety, actress Sandra Yi Sencindiver has been talking about her role in Noah Hawley's upcoming Alien series, who according to this new interview is going to be a "crucial" character named Yutani (though the article spells it Yatani, we assume this is a typo). “I can’t say anything more than that, other ... [Read More]

We've previously reported how Sir Ridley Scott regretted choosing to direct Alien: Covenant over Blade Runner: 2049 and now it seems that we have more of his opinions about not directing the Alien sequels as well. Variety reported on the director's interview with Vanity Fair during the promotion for the upcoming Gladiator II how he was never ... [Read More]

Earlier this week Total Film shared a brand new publicity still and a snippet of an interview with Alien: Romulus writer and director Fede Alvarez. That article is now out, and the team over at Perfect Organism have shared a copy of the article in its entirety. In it he reiterates some of what we've heard previously ... [Read More]

With less than 3 months to go until Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus hits the big screens, the publicity continues to drip feed and tantalize us! Talking to Total Film for their upcoming issue, Fede Alvarez reiterated to the outlet about the emphasize on practical elements and working with both Alien director Sir Ridley Scott, and consulting with ... [Read More]

Director Ian Nathan has announced that iconic actress Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of the 4-hour Aliens documentary Aliens Expanded! Hot on the heels of last month's additions of director James Cameron, actor Paul Reiser and producer Gale Anne Hurd, Ripley - Sigourney Weaver herself will be interviewed for Aliens Expanded. Commenting on Sigourney's involvement, writer and director Ian Nathan ... [Read More]

The team at CreatorVC continue to add more Aliens alumni to the cast of their ambitious four-hour Aliens documentary! Following the earlier announcement that they had secured writer/director James Cameron, CreatorVC has now announced that actor Paul Reiser and producer Gale Anne Hurd have joined the cast to add their perspectives to the extensive fan produced documentary! “With Gale Anne ... [Read More]

While you might have thought the team behind the upcoming documentary Aliens Expanded had already assembled an incredible cast, they have just announced they'd done the impossible and added none other than Aliens writer/director James Cameron to the already amazing amount of talent being interviewed! “This is the opportunity of a lifetime,” says writer and director Ian Nathan. ... [Read More]