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Guy Pearce got to play a pretty iconic movie villain over 30 years after he was introduced. In Prometheus, he got to play Peter Weyland. Those familiar with their Alien mythology, you know that is a huge thing. While that first film was not as connected to the original films as some had wanted, the […]

After an initial print run that sold out everywhere on December 10th, 2019, Alien: The Role-Playing Game is set to be distributed in seven other languages! From the press release we at Bleeding Cool have received from Free League Publishing: The Xenomorphs are taking over the world. Free League Publishing and 20th Century Fox are proud to announce a host […]

When one covers Hollywood, there's a certain level of cynicism that comes into play considering its inconsistent history. Before we get into that let's give credit where it's due with the Film Academy recognizing Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite as Best Picture in the 2020 Oscars. Could anyone else picture a contemporary foreign language film 5-10 years […]

I've been catching up with a few of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, or RHLSP as it is now known by the cool kids, as it has broadened location remit. And just listened to the one with guest Michael Sheen (late for the recording as he actually went to the Leicester Square Theatre by […]

Rogue replicant Roy Batty – played by the late Rutger Hauer – was one of the most iconic characters not just in science fiction films but in modern cinema history. Hollywood legend Ridley Scott directed Hauer in the role in 1982's Blade Runner, which starred a still-on-the-rise Harrison Ford as Richard Deckard. In honor of […]

AMC's The Terror: Infamy is trading the hidden horrors of the first season's 19th-century Northwest Passage for the very real, visible horrors of American-run Japanese internment camps during World War II, and viewers are now getting their first official trailer for the series' return. Co-created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull […]

William Gibson wrote his legendary screenplay for Alien III more than 30 years ago. Now you can experience it as an audio play, thanks to Audible. Gibson wrote the script back in 1987 at the height of his fame as the father of Cyberpunk and cultural influence. He made science fiction hip and cool for […]

We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of the most influential space films ever made, Alien. Imagine if you will, a world where Ridley Scott DIDN'T direct the 1979 science fiction-horror classic, because it almost happened. He was actually the 4th choice to tackle the movie, which was his second feature-length film. "I was the fourth choice," […]

40 years ago, we learned that in space, no one can hear you scream when Alien first opened in theaters, and audiences have been screaming ever since. Almost everyone in the cast (who are still with us in this lifetime) still speaks about that experience on the Nostromo with a reverence and respect, almost everyone learned […]

Back in 2017, Sir Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions and Tom Hardy's Hardy Son & Baker announced a join project with the BBC to bring a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale "A Christmas Carol" to television. We haven't really heard anything about it since then, until this morning's announcement that FX has partnered with BBC […]

Remember when we told you earlier this year that to celebrate the landmark 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's genre-defining film Alien, and that we were getting a crop of short films released on LV-426?  That day has some, fans of Ellen Ripely, that day has come. The first of the 6 short films released by FOX via […]

Remember that AMAZING North Bergen High School spring performance of Alien that got universe-wide attention? Well, thanks to Ridley Scott and Scott Free Productions' generous donation to the drama club, an encore performance of Alien: The Play is in the works for a notable date in the Xenomorph franchise. According to the official Alien Twitter account, the performance […]

Perhaps you saw the viral report about the New Jersey High School Drama Club who put on a spring production based on the seminal science fiction film Alien. They did it all with recycled materials, and the result was an incredible tribute and production. We cannot get over the quality of sets and costumes, all of […]

As painful as it is to imaging that a full forty years have passed since Ridley Scott's masterpiece of science fiction horror, Alien, first appears on the big screen, we can ease that feeling knowing that 20th Century Fox is about to wow us with an all-new remastering into an UltraHD 4K HDR release. The […]

The Passage, based on the book series by Justin Cronin, debuts on Fox this Monday, January 14. Ahead of the big debut, they dropped a trailer for the first season of the vampire-esque horror series, and it looks like we are in for a wild ride. Hey, anytime you are going to use "Tainted Love" […]

Director Sir Ridley Scott's (Gladiator, Blade Runner) future – and the future of a human colony – lies with TNT, as the cable network has announced a straight-to-series order for sci-fi drama Raised by Wolves. With Scott set to direct and Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, The Red Road) writing, the series focuses on two androids tasked with raising human […]

Have you always wanted to pitch your idea for an Alien film? Well, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sir Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece, 20th Century Fox is partnering with online creative network Tongal to find filmmakers to produce shorts set after the events of the original Alien movie. Twentieth Century Fox Film Chief Brand Officer Beth Goss said: […]

April 26th somewhere along the line became Alien Day, a celebration of Ripley, Weyland Yutani, and the Xenomorphs who love them.  First released in 1979, the groundbreaking space horror film directed by Sir Ridley Scott blew the airlock doors off what a female lead could do and be in such a movie. To be fair, LV-426 […]

We talk a lot about the filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott, mostly because the man really has created some iconic pictures and continues to prove how good at the craft he really is. One of the nice things is that lately, Scott talks. He's made himself infinitely more available for interviews and has no problem talking about […]

A film adaptation of the Oni Press comics series created and written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by various artists may have found its director, and you won't believe it — he was Ridley Scott this whole time! We knew they should have just retraced their steps. According to a report from sandwich-themed Hollywood gossip […]