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On the day Aliens opened – 18 July 1986 – director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, then a married couple, went to as many screenings as possible around Los Angeles. One at midnight on Hollywood Boulevard was especially thrilling. “It was like people were on an amusement park ride,” Hurd tells me today. “They were screaming at the screen... we had hoped it would get a visceral response but we never expected to that extent.”
