Latest Topics ZDNet. By registering you become a member of the CBS Interactive family of sites and you have read and agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Video Services Policy.

You agree to receive updates, alerts and promotions from CBS and that CBS may share information about you with our marketing partners so that they may contact you by email or otherwise about their products or services. You will also receive a complimentary subscription to the ZDNet's Tech Update Today and ZDNet Announcement newsletters.

Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between. A tribute to old Hindi film music. Songs of the 30s through the 60s.

You may unsubscribe from these newsletters at any time.

Potřebujete poradit? Nevíte, jaké zvolit palubky či podlahovky? Zeptejte se odborníků na palubky a podlahovky. Best poems and quotes from famous poets. Read romantic love poems, love quotes, classic poems and best poems. All famous quotes. I don’t know how their business model is going to work—MoviePass still pays theaters the full price of each ticket—but as a film buff who usually pays $18 and.

Alien (film) - Wikipedia. This article is about the 1. For its sequel, see Aliens (film). Alien is a 1. 97. Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship.

Dan O'Bannon, drawing upon previous works of science fiction and horror, wrote the screenplay from a story he co- authored with Ronald Shusett. The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 2. Century Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script; Shusett was executive producer. The eponymous Alien and its accompanying elements were designed by the Swiss artist H.

R. Giger, while concept artists. Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human aspects of the film. Alien was released on May 2. United States and September 6 in the United Kingdom. It was met with critical acclaim and found box office success, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects,[9][1. Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright),[1. Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other nominations.[1.

It has been consistently praised in the years since its release, and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 2. 00. 2, Alien was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[1. In 2. 00. 8, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh- best film in the science fiction genre, and as the thirty- third greatest film of all time by Empire magazine.[1. The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys.

It also launched Weaver's acting career, providing her with her first lead role. The story of her character Ellen Ripley's encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic and narrative core of the sequels Aliens (1. Alien 3 (1. 99. 2) and Alien Resurrection (1. A crossover with the Predator franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator films, which includes Alien vs. Predator (2. 00. 4) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2.

A prequel series includes Prometheus (2. Alien: Covenant (2. The commercial space tug Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a seven- member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt), Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm) and two Engineers, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton). Detecting a transmission from the nearby planetoid LV- 4. Mother, awakens the crew. Company policy requires crews to investigate such transmissions, so they land on the planetoid, sustaining damage from its atmosphere and rocky landscape.

Parker and Brett repair the ship while Dallas, Kane and Lambert head out to investigate. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien spacecraft and head inside it, losing communication with Ash. Inside, they find the remains of a large alien creature. Ripley deciphers part of the transmission, determining it's not a distress signal, but a warning of some kind. In the spacecraft, Kane discovers a chamber containing hundreds of large egg- like objects.

When he touches one, it opens and a creature springs out and attaches to his face through the facemask of his spacesuit. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo. As acting senior officer, Ripley refuses to let them aboard, citing quarantine regulations, but Ash ignores Ripley and lets them in. The crew unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, discovering that its blood is an extremely corrosive acid. It later detaches on its own and is found dead. The ship is partly repaired, and the crew lifts off.

Kane awakens with some memory loss but otherwise unharmed. During a final crew meal before returning to stasis, he chokes and convulses in pain then dies as a small alien creature bursts from his chest and escapes into the ship.

The crew attempts to locate it with a tracking device and capture or kill it with nets, electric prods and flamethrowers. Brett follows the crew's cat, Jones, into an engine room and the now fully- grown alien (Bolaji Badejo) attacks him and disappears with his body into an air shaft.

After heated discussion, the crew decide the creature must be in the air ducts. Dallas enters the ducts, intending to force the alien into the airlock, but it ambushes him. Lambert implores the others to abandon ship and escape in its small shuttle. Now in command, Ripley explains that the shuttle will not support four people and pushes to continue with Dallas' plan of flushing out the alien.

Now with access to Mother, Ripley discovers that Ash has been secretly ordered to return the alien to the company, with the crew deemed expendable. Ripley confronts Ash and he tries to choke her to death.

Parker intervenes and clubs Ash, knocking off his head and revealing him to be an android. Parker reanimates Ash's head and they learn he was assigned to the Nostromo to ensure the creature was returned for analysis at any expense, including the crew's lives. Ash taunts them about their chances against the "perfect organism." Ripley disconnects Ash and Parker burns his smashed remains with a flamethrower. Ripley, Lambert, and Parker agree to self- destruct the Nostromo and escape in the shuttle. Parker and Lambert are killed by the alien while gathering life- support supplies. Ripley initiates the self- destruct sequence and heads with the cat to the shuttle to find the alien in her path. She retreats and attempts unsuccessfully to abort the self- destruct.

She returns to the shuttle, where the alien is gone, and she narrowly escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes. As she prepares for stasis, Ripley finds the alien has stowed- away aboard the shuttle. She puts on a spacesuit and opens the shuttle's airlock. The explosive decompression forces the alien into the airlock doorway.

She shoots it with a grappling hook to propel it into space, but the gun catches as the airlock closes, tethering the alien to the shuttle. It attempts to crawl into one of the engines but Ripley fires them to blast the alien into space. After recording the voyage final log entry, she places herself and the cat into stasis for the trip home to Earth. The principal cast members of Alien (left to right: Holm, Stanton, Weaver, Kotto, Skerritt, Cartwright, and Hurt)Tom Skerritt as Dallas, the captain of the Nostromo. Skerritt had been approached early in the film's development but declined as it did not yet have a director and had a very low budget.

Later, when Scott was attached as director and the budget had been doubled, Skerritt accepted the role of Dallas.[1. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the warrant officer aboard the Nostromo. Weaver, who had Broadway experience but was relatively unknown in film, impressed Scott, Giler, and Hill with her audition.

She was the last actor to be cast for the film, and performed most of her screen tests in- studio as the sets were being built.[1. The role of Ripley was Weaver's first leading role in a motion picture, and earned her nominations for a Saturn Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role.[1. Veronica Cartwright as Lambert, the Nostromo's navigator. Watch Advantageous Online Etonline more. Cartwright had experience in horror and science fiction films, having acted as a child in The Birds (1.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1. She originally read for the role of Ripley, and was not informed that she had instead been cast as Lambert until she arrived in London for wardrobe.[1.

She disliked the character's emotional weakness,[2. They convinced me that I was the audience's fears; I was a reflection of what the audience is feeling."[1.