The Alien franchise is one of the most iconic and enduring in all of sci-fi cinema, even if not every entry is a classic. The original Ridley Scott movie was essentially greenlit only because the studio saw the success of Star Wars and wanted to get a ...

It's been decades since James Cameron's classic "Aliens" was released, but many of the main actors are still with us and working today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy Alien Day! And no, not for any supposed extraterrestrial beings watching from the shadows of our solar system, but for the iconic franchise that first began back in 1979.

Extraterrestrial life has captivated human imagination long before cinema existed, but it was film that gave aliens their faces, voices, and personalities. From the moment audiences watched a rocket crash into the Man in the Moon’s eye in Georges ...

In 1986, seven years after the groundbreaking Alien, director James Cameron released its long-awaited sequel. Rather then trying to recreate Ridley Scott’s claustrophobic 1979 horror, Cameron transformed it into something bigger, louder and more militaristic