Franchise Killers: Alien Resurrection

https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/11/24/franchise-killers-alien-resurrection/

In the late nineties, Twentieth Century Fox had a franchise problem. The studio’s most successful series of the day, the Die Hard trilogy, appeared to be done. They had tried and failed repeatedly to find a cost-effective way to reboot the Planet of the Apes movies. The X-Men series was still a couple of years away. Macaulay Culkin had aged out of the Home Alone movies, but Fox was so desperate that made a third movie without him anyway. With nowhere else to turn, Fox tried to resurrect the Alien franchise. Instead, they ended up killing the series.