Quite a bit of movie magic made "Alien" the sci-fi horror classic it is -- but one of its biggest challenges was solved with a simple low-tech tactic.

The creators of the Alien franchise probably have no shortage of ideas for where the series should go, but here are some more ...

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979’s Alien, ...

Predator: Badlands is now in theaters, and while Dan Trachtenberg's Prey follow-up doesn't feature any direct connections to or crossovers with the Alien franchise - beyond the Weyland-Yutani ...

Ever since the release of the original Ridley Scott-directed 1979 film, Alien has felt like an expansive universe full of potential. Even before it was a franchise in its own right, even just that ...

Sydney Chandler had terrible eyesight as a child. The 29-year-old star of Alien: Earth (and daughter of Kyle Chandler) grew up with severe vision impairment that was eventually corrected through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of what made the xenomorphs so scary in the original Alien and its sequels was that nobody really knew what the xenomorphs ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

The Alien movies have long attracted some big-name — or soon-to-be big-name — directors to show off their chops. After sci-fi legend Ridley Scott established the story in Alien, a pre-Titanic James ...

Having first appeared in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), the Xenomorph has come to personify the uncanny and the raw fears of invasion, mutation, and predation. Over decades, the Alien franchise has seen ...