Over the last several weeks, we’ve been reporting on older movies making their way back to theaters. These movies, which include the live-action Spider-Man flicks and the nine Star Wars episodes, are being put back on the silver screen to commemorate a specific milestone—like Phantom Menace hitting 25—or seemingly just because everyone else made it … Read more
Image: 20th Century Fox For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue … Read more
Timothy Olyphant is going from Star Wars to Alien.Screenshot: Lucasfilm The world of Alien just got a whole lot sexier with the addition of actor Timothy Olyphant. The Justified star, who recently dipped his toe into another major sci-fi universe as Cobb Vanth on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has been cast … Read more
Image: Hot Toys It’s still kind of wild to us that last year brought a new Predator movie, and a good one at that. After decades of the franchise flopping around unable to figure out what it wanted to be, director Dan Trachtenberg stepped up to the plate with Prey, a standalone prequel that gave … Read more
A scene from Ridley Scott’s 2017 Alien: Covenant.Image: 20th Century Fox Ridley Scott is no stranger to seeing new talent step into franchises he created—he did it with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, a movie he recently said he regretted not directing himself. The veteran filmmaker is still going strong at 85 with Napoleon and Gladiator 2 … Read more