"Independence Day" isn't technically "The War of the Worlds" but it's still one of the most successful adaptations of HG ...

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Independence Day didn’t invent or perfect the summer movie, but it arguably understood it better than anything since.

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day has overtaken The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves, at the domestic box office. Find out more.

As the film Disclosure Day rolls out in cinemas, director Steven Spielberg is once again pushing audiences to imagine what contact with extraterrestrial life might look like and what it might mean for ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director said NASA sent him a 20-page letter objecting to the release of Close ...

Aliens could, in theory, reach Earth but would never truly go home again, according to physicists who say Einstein's laws of relativity turn any near‑light‑speed visitor into a 'time exile.' The ...

Many audiences have groaned about the inclusion of the flying saucer at the end of 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — and its creators weren't particularly enthusiastic about ...