On the day Aliens opened – 18 July 1986 – director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, then a married couple, went to as many screenings as possible around Los Angeles. One at midnight on ...

Written hot off the success of another Cameron script, The Terminator (1984), Aliens was the answer to 20th Century Fox’s prayers when it went into production, representing the culmination of a ...

The filmmaker confirms the project is not a standalone, but rather connects to the other films in the franchise: “I love all of those movies. I didn't want to omit or ignore any of them." By Brian ...