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10 Movie Franchises That Need To End

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With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth series releases teaser trailer online

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Fans of the Alien franchise should prepare themselves to see more of the Xenomorphs as FX has released the first teaser trailer for Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien: Earth TV series as the fearsome Xenomorphs arrive on the planet. The teaser was shown for select audiences of Alien: Romulus in theaters, but has now been released wide now that the latest Alien film has […]

10 Alien Rip-Offs To Watch After Alien: Romulus

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With Alien: Romulus currently terrorising audiences, here are ten Alien knock-offs to watch if you love the franchise…  The Alien franchise is a pretty eclectic mix, made up of distinct stabs at effectively the same concept repeated. A group of largely disposable humans are hunted and picked off by a fearsome alien creature (or multiple). […]

Fede Álvarez on Alien: Romulus sequel and THAT ending

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Alien: Romulus might be a film in which most of the characters fail to heed the multiple warnings placed in front of them, but please don’t fall into that same trap because this story contains spoilers for Fede Álvarez’s horror-hit.  With $120 million banked since its release, and largely favourable reviews (read our take here), […]

Bring the Alien Queen home with Aliens wall sculpture from Hollywood Collectibles

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Sideshow and Hollywood Collectibles Group have revealed the 1:2 scale Alien Queen wall sculpture from James Cameron’s 1986 sci-fi sequel Aliens. Limited to just 500 pieces, it is available to pre-order now, priced at $705; check it out here… SEE ALSO: The Best Scenes in the Alien Franchise Sideshow and Hollywood Collectibles Group are proud […]

Alien: Rogue Incursion gets release date and two new trailers

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VR developer Survios has announced that their action-horror VR game set in the Alien universe will release on Meta Quest 3, PS VR2 and PCVR via Steam on 19th December.  To celebrate the announcement, two new reveal trailers have been revealed offering an in-depth look at the weapons and equipment available and an unnerving glimpse […]

The Best Scenes in the Alien Franchise

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Casey Chong on the best scenes in the Alien franchise… The last time we got an Alien movie resulted in the so-so effort of Alien: Covenant. That was seven years ago, back in the day before Disney acquired Fox. The movie franchise found itself in hyper sleep ever since until Fede Alvarez of the Evil […]

Alien: Romulus featurette introduces us to Cailee Spaeny’s Rain

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If you’re chest-bursting with excitement about the impending arrival of Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, then 20th Century Studios’ has dropped a brand new featurette introducing us to Cailee Spaeny’s character, Rain.  Hoping to avoid joining the long-list of xenomorph victims alongside Spaeny will be David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and […]

Alien: Rogue Incursion trailer introduces our new heroine

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A trailer for Alien: Rogue Incursion has been released, which introduces the new heroine of Survios’ upcoming action horror title, Zula Hendricks, a fearless ex-Colonial Marine turned ultimate Xenomorph hunter, whose shoes players will be stepping into in VR this holiday season. Check out the trailer below… Alien: Rogue Incursion is a single-player, action-horror game […]