The Alien franchise has made some interesting pivots in recent years. Ridley Scott's prequel films have largely been abandoned, Alien: Romulus attempted to bridge the gap between the first and second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female-led action blockbuster seemed inevitable, it would just be a matter of who got there first. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, ...

Alien fans have one love above all others, and it is Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley. The hero of the franchise, often imitated but never duplicated, was last seen in the terrible Alien: Resurrection ...

At the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Weaver hosted a masterclass following a screening of Alien. During that, she talked about unrealized projects in the Alien universe. First was Neill Blomkamp’s ...

Few people anticipated how big 'Alien' would be, but late actor Tom Skerritt wasn't surprised.

With everything going on in the Alien universe, one character we all assumed to be safely retired was Ellen Ripley. Sigourney Weaver’s iconic character and star of the franchise’s first four movies ...

Few horror franchises have had the impact of Alien. Over the last four-plus decades, there have been nine movies, several video games and comics, and the hit TV series, Alien: Earth. The films have a ...

The late Tom Skerritt made cinema history by taking a backseat to Sigourney Weaver in Alien.

While many actors have taken on leading roles in the Alien and Predator franchises over the years, the most iconic stars of these stories are still Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Weaver ...

We might just see Sigourney Weaver return to the Alien franchise after all. The recent rumor that the next Alien movie could bring Weaver back to play a de-aged Ellen Ripley was met with a mixture of ...