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FX Boss John Landgraf made official what has been out there for some time: The cable network is moving quickly to make a series based on the hit 20th Century Fox movie franchise Alien with Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley stepping into the creator and EP chair with the network in advance talks with the franchise’s…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight’s Fargo Season 4 finale “Storia Americana” on FX Crime doesn’t pay, and it never did for mobsters. While we were bound to see the death of one big Kansas City mafia kingpin at the end of Fargo‘s Season 4, specifically Jason Schwartzman’s wet-behind-the-ears…

Veteran British actor Ian Holm, star of Lord Of The Rings and Alien, has died. He was 88. In a message to the Guardian, Holm’s agent said: "It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88. He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer…Charming, kind and…

Philip Gips, a graphic designer, advertising executive and creator of posters for hit films including Alien, Rosemary's Baby and more, died Thursday in White Plains, NY. He was 88 and his death was announced by the Endeavor agency. Gips was born in the Bronx on March 28, 1931. After graduating from the Cooper Union…

Film editor Terry Rawlings, who earned BAFTA nominations for his work on Alien and Blade Runner as well as an Academy Award nomination for Chariots of Fire died Tuesday at his home in Hertfordshire, England. He was in his mid-80s. Early in his career, he worked in the sound department in numerous films. His first…

A New Jersey high school’s adaptation of the classic 1979 film Alien has gotten a stamp of approval from Hollywood insiders. Drama students at North Bergen High School staged the elaborate production of “Alien: The Play” this past week, according to NJ.com. After pictures and video of the space-themed set and costumes…

Shepperton Studios has had its $640M (£500M) expansion plans approved by the local authorities. The move is a boon for the production sector in the UK with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Disney as well as traditional broadcasters looking for more studio space. Spelthorne Borough Council’s Planning Committee has…

A student of storytelling through the ages, documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe has often turned his lens upon classic films and those who made them—and while there’s certainly a canon of self-reflexive filmmaking, Philippe’s approach is unique. As manifest in his latest doc, Memory: The Origins of Alien, the idea isn…

Richard Alan Greenberg, an Oscar-nominated title designer and motion-graphics pioneer, died June 16 in New York City. He was 71. Greenberg scored his Oscar nom for Best Visual Effects on the 1987 Anrold Schwarzenegger thriller Predator. Among his many other notable opening-sequence credits are Superman, Alien, Dirty…

Legendary director Ridley Scott turned 79 on Wednesday, and to mark the occasion 20th Century Fox released a new photo on Twitter from the set of Alien: Covenant. It shows the director standing in front of one of the creations from his 1979 classic Alien, and fanboys already have been quick to notice the Space Jockey…

In a major coup for Australia, Disney in the past year filmed Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales locally with a contribution from the state government of AUD$21.6M. The studio is now confirmed to return, bringing Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok Down Under for a 2016 shoot while Fox’s untitled Ridley Scott Alien…

EXCLUSIVE: It has been nearly a decade since Ridley Scott had a film here at the Toronto International Film Festival, but his return with The Martian has been met with the best reviews a film at this festival has gotten so far. A near fatal storm and accident results in  botanist Mark Watney [Matt Damon] left for dead…