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Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Ted Chiang, who wrote the short story on which Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is based, once revealed his favorite movie ...

While audiences may never get another Sigourney Weaver-led Alien film, the star can be seen in other sci-fi projects like The ...

A cinematic AI short film where an unexpected first contact celebrates soccer as the universal language of connection, unity, and belonging. We wanted to tell a story where humanity’s first contact ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

Near the end of Star Trek: First Contact, after Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the Enterprise stop the Borg from altering history, the movie arrives at the scene its title ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. Real scientists all over the world are ...

Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens. The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life Disclosure ...

Steven Spielberg thinks he deserves to see an alien — but he doesn't want to be an ambassador for all mankind. The Jaws filmmaker shares his attitude toward the idea of meeting aliens in an interview ...