One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Ridley Scott's near-perfect sci-fi horror masterpiece is surging on streaming before the franchise's next release.

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Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

With the Alien: Romulus sequel losing its director, a new report hints that Whalefall's Brian Duffield could be entering the hit sci-fi franchise.

There’s a reason Alien and Predator keep showing up as inspiration for themed entertainment. These franchises come pre-loaded with the exact ingredients that make a spin feel cinematic: high stakes, ...

Few gaming moments hit quite like the first time the Xenomorph in the original Alien: Isolation stalked the corridors of Sevastopol without a script telling it where to go. That unpredictability is ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

Disclosure Day finds the great director once again staging close encounters with interstellar visitors — and crafting a conspiracy thriller that doubles as a career retrospective Hetienne Park, Josh O ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...