With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

Sigourney Weaver recently told The New York Times that she once stood up to James Cameron during their first movie together, ...

At the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Weaver hosted a masterclass following a screening of Alien. During that, she talked about unrealized projects in the Alien universe. First was Neill Blomkamp’s ...

Sigourney Weaver has met with Disney about potentially reprising her Ellen Ripley role in a future Alien sequel. Weaver first played Ripley in 1979’s Alien, which was directed by Ridley Scott. She ...

From 1979 to 1997, Sigourney Weaver starred in four Alien movies as Ellen Ripley. Since then Neill Blomkamp had been attached to helm Alien 5 as a direct sequel to 1986’s Aliens, but the project was ...

One of the greatest movie characters of all time is Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. She's the survivor of many an alien attack across several decades in one of the most beloved science fiction franchises ...

Sigourney Weaver is seriously considering reprising one of her best-known roles after reading an “extraordinary” script featuring a potential new storyline for her character. Speaking Friday at a New ...

Thanks to the success of Alien: Romulus and Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise is hotter than ever before, burning through the competition like acid burning through the hull. This has only intensified ...

From budgetary issues to wanting to recast Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, James Cameron’s version of Aliens almost never ...

Sigourney Weaver’s “Alien” journey might not be over. During a New York Comic Con panel, the actress let slip that Walter Hill, one of the producers on the original film and a series mainstay, has ...