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SUNDAY UPDATE: Alien: Romulus has chomped into a $108.2M global opening, including $41.5M from domestic and $66.7M at the international box office. The Fede Alvarez-directed sci-fi horror came in well ahead of expectations, aided, as we noted yesterday (see below), by an over-performance in China. The…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: So much for the doldrums of August. Between Alien: Romulus and the near $100M-grossing Sony/Wayfarer Studios movie’ It Ends With Us, it’s clear we’ve shaken off all the strike jitters. Disney continues to keep the shine on its 20th Century Studios brand with their own fingerprints…

Before there was Priscilla, Cailee Spaeny revealed that her first collaboration with Sofia Coppola was an eventually scrapped version of The Little Mermaid. "My first-ever callback was through Sofia," the Alien: Romulus star told Empire. "It was for [Coppola's] The Little Mermaid, [which] ended up…

Alien: Romulus filmmaker Fede Alvarez is totally open to doing a revamped Alien vs. Predator movie, but he’ll need a little help. “Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez said. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who helmed the widely watched Predator 2022 prequel Prey…

One would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go. However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that…

Disney will continue their No. 1 2024 YTD domestic box office domination this weekend and show that’s there’s still flash in their inherited 20th Century Studios logo with the latest rendition of the Ridley Scott produced sci-fi franchise Alien: Romulus. That movie per industry sources is expected to do $4…

The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own…

Ahead of the August 16 release of Alien: Romulus, filmmaker Fede Álvarez caught up with Deadline at Comic-Con to tease what fans can expect from his installment of the revered sci-fi franchise, delving into his first meeting with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, going for a younger cast, Hollywood’s current…

“Do you want to see more footage?” Fede Alvarez asked halfway through the Alien: Romulus Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Friday. “Yeahhhhhh!” screamed the crowd, which for 20th Century Studios and Disney should be a sigh of relief in terms of the reception toward their millennial take on the Ridley…

The novelty popcorn bucket brigades have a new contender. Joining buckets from Dune and Deadpool & Wolverine is a new design from the forthcoming Alien: Romulus.  Cinemark have unveiled the popcorn bucket, which is a Xenomorph head, including the long protruding back of the head. The popcorn is…

Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus will make its UK premiere at the revamped Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) in August. The highly anticipated reboot of Ridley Scott's horror franchise will open the festival's new Midnight Madness strand on August 15. 20th Century Studios will release…

In the wake of Inside Out 2's massive $295M worldwide debut last weekend, Disney Head of Global Theatrical Distribution Tony Chambers kicked off the studio's CineEurope presentation this evening thanking exhibitors in attendance for their part in the historic start — and was met in kind by enthusiastic…