Alien: Covenant Box Office Performance

Started by John73, May 14, 2017, 05:51:54 PM

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Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 11, 2017, 03:56:47 PM
Does this mean no new Alien movie that focuses on rogue AIs?

They'll likely go on to Plan B :

Ripley's mom and Colonial Marines with lots of pulse rifles.

0321recon

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Oct 11, 2017, 09:59:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 11, 2017, 03:56:47 PM
Does this mean no new Alien movie that focuses on rogue AIs?

They'll likely go on to Plan B :

Ripley's mom and Colonial Marines with lots of pulse rifles.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Scorpio

Quote from: Alionic on Oct 10, 2017, 06:50:58 AM


I'm willing to bet he'll get to make his fanboy film after Scott wraps up the prequels. Just watch.

I don't care because after the prequels the series is done.  There is nothing more logically you can do but fan service and reboots.  Oh sure, you could do hundreds of different things, but most of those won't make money.

Ingwar

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Oct 11, 2017, 09:59:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 11, 2017, 03:56:47 PM
Does this mean no new Alien movie that focuses on rogue AIs?

They'll likely go on to Plan B :

Ripley's mom and Colonial Marines with lots of pulse rifles.

I'm waiting for plasma rifles a'la Fallout.

Corporal Hicks

Phased plasma pulse rifles.

Frwap. Fry half a city with one of those puppies.

Prez

Prez

#1580
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 12, 2017, 07:51:41 AM
Phased plasma pulse rifles.

Frwap. Fry half a city with one of those puppies.

Sea of Sorrows plasma rifles anyone?

bb-15

Quote from: Scorpio on Oct 12, 2017, 04:09:29 AM
Quote from: Alionic on Oct 10, 2017, 06:50:58 AM


I'm willing to bet he'll get to make his fanboy film after Scott wraps up the prequels. Just watch.

I don't care because after the prequels the series is done.  There is nothing more logically you can do but fan service and reboots.  Oh sure, you could do hundreds of different things, but most of those won't make money.

I think there is plenty that can be done in the Alien franchise with the Engineers+black goo creatures+out of control androids+the nasty Weyland company.
New movies can have broader science fiction stories (like Star Trek).

Can money be made in the future with an Alien / Engineer universe?
It's possible. The budget just needs to be kept down as Ridley did with "Covenant" (which has allowed the box office to reach about 2.5 times the production budget).

;)

Kane's other son

Blade Runner 2049 opened to a lukewarm $32,7 million, despite glowing reviews.
Do you still hold the opinion that Covenant, which got pretty decent reviews, failed to crack $100 million because it was "bad" and not because adult sci-fi is unfortunately not a hot commodity in today's infantile cinematic environment?

0321recon

Quote from: Kane's other son on Oct 13, 2017, 11:44:10 AM
Blade Runner 2049 opened to a lukewarm $32,7 million, despite glowing reviews.
Do you still hold the opinion that Covenant, which got pretty decent reviews, failed to crack $100 million because it was "bad" and not because adult sci-fi is unfortunately not a hot commodity in today's infantile cinematic environment?

After Blade Runner, it's a good possibility that hard Science Fiction is sadly going out, and Covenant was the precursor for things to come.

Alionic

Quote from: Kane's other son on Oct 13, 2017, 11:44:10 AM
Blade Runner 2049 opened to a lukewarm $32,7 million, despite glowing reviews.
Do you still hold the opinion that Covenant, which got pretty decent reviews, failed to crack $100 million because it was "bad" and not because adult sci-fi is unfortunately not a hot commodity in today's infantile cinematic environment?

It's unfortunate how modern audiences just want their endless comic book movies and Star Wars retreads.

Anthony

Anthony

#1585
Quote from: Alionic on Oct 14, 2017, 10:00:56 PM
Quote from: Kane's other son on Oct 13, 2017, 11:44:10 AM
Blade Runner 2049 opened to a lukewarm $32,7 million, despite glowing reviews.
Do you still hold the opinion that Covenant, which got pretty decent reviews, failed to crack $100 million because it was "bad" and not because adult sci-fi is unfortunately not a hot commodity in today's infantile cinematic environment?

It's unfortunate how modern audiences just want their endless comic book movies and Star Wars retreads.

Have you considered that maybe Blade Runner (which bombed when originally released) and Alien aren't as popular as Star Wars or comic book films?

Nah screw that! It's much easier to just insult the general audience and bring up completely unrelated films.

Mind you, I really liked Blade Runner 2049, but it was never going to be a huge hit.

SM

SM

#1586
Yep.  It's becoming increasingly obvious that if they want to make good money from stuff like Alien or Blade Runner they need to dial down the budgets and/ or the ratings.

0321recon

Quote from: SM on Oct 15, 2017, 01:57:14 AM
Yep.  It's becoming increasingly obvious that if they want to make good money from stuff like Alien or Blade Runner they need to dial down the budgets and/ or the ratings.

Good point. I can see Fox pushing Scott either take the rating or budget hit for them to green-light Awakening. 

skhellter

skhellter

#1588
3rd film will definitely have a smaller budget.
And that's fine, tbh.

Prometheus kinda felt like it was wasting some of its
budget in unmemorable scenes like the sandstorm
or the scrapped cgi-Mutant-Fifield


Keep it focused, keep it claustrophobic, plz.
But also keep it R-Rated, plz.

plz?
plz.

monkeylove

Likely the problem with these movies is that their budgets are too high. And they're high because large amounts of credit are available for investment, which means given competition studios have to make very expensive movies. In order to earn from them, they have to spend large amounts on marketing, spend heavily on special effects and/or A-list actors, and come up with stories that will appeal across many cultures while hitting the PG sweet spot. That's why many of these movies (not all) look alike, and why studios have to resort to remakes, reboots, prequels and sequels, etc.


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