One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, but it doesn't matter.

In the last three years, the Alien/Predator franchise has been as active as any in modern Hollywood. Audiences have seen ...

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Predator: Badlands opens the weekend’s box office on top with a $40 million USD domestic debut, setting a new record for the franchise. According to Variety, the film’s opening numbers overtook Alien ...

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In 2018, the “Predator” franchise was on life support, if not outright dead. The series, which started with John McTiernan’s 1987 action hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of a shadowy ...

Almost exactly two decades ago, the release of Alien vs Predator: Requiem on Christmas Day in 2007 changed the franchise in a major way. As well as continuing the two-franchise crossover, the movie ...

Dan Trachtenberg might have found a secret antidote to franchise fatigue: start with underdeveloped I.P. It’s not easy to be a legacy Hollywood franchise in 2025. Decades of box office dominance for ...

There's this funny fad in Hollywood of turning iconic villains into sympathetic — or even heroic — figures. "Wicked" turned the evil Wicked Witch of the West of "The Wizard of Oz" into a misunderstood ...

Scar posing with his hand up in Alien vs. Predator - 20th Century Studios Across the entire "Predator" story, there's no shortage of bruisers and brawlers to rally behind and debate about who's the ...

For years, every 'Predator' sequel lived in Arnold Schwarzenegger's shadow. Then Predators arrived and reminded fans why the ...