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Box office. $187 million [5][6] Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver ...
1. January 3, 1979. Superman. $4,859,936. Superman grossed $13,135,498 nationally from all markets for the 4-day weekend ended January 1, a record weekend gross. Its 3-day gross of $10,364,384 beat the record $10.2 million set by Star Wars in its 1978 reissue. [1][2][3] 2. January 10, 1979.
Alien is a science fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the original film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as the Alien ("Xenomorph"), and the prequel series following the exploits of the David 8 android (Michael Fassbender) and the aliens referred to as the "Engineers".
Try to take yourself back to 1979, before eight subsequent Alien movies made the Xenomorph’s transformation from Facehugger to Chestburster to full-grown monster a well-known, clockwork lifecycle.
Total worldwide box office No. of films Average of films Highest-grossing film 1 The Conjuring Universe: ... Alien (1979) $188,034,787: 5 Aliens (1986) $183,291,893: 6
March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back. March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a ...
California Dreaming. American International Pictures. John D. Hancock (director); Ned Wynn (screenplay); Glynnis O'Connor, Dennis Christopher, Seymour Cassel, Tanya Roberts, Dorothy Tristan, John Calvin, Todd Susman, Alice Playten. The China Syndrome. Columbia Pictures / IPC Films / Major Studio Partners.
Headquarters. United States. Products. Motion pictures. Brandywine Productions is an American film production company known for its Alien film series, founded in 1969 by American filmmakers Walter Hill, David Giler, and Gordon Carroll. [1][2][3][4]