Update 10/6/12: Deadline -“…By contrast, the scifi thriller plunged -22% from Friday to Saturday but still ended with a big $49.5M weekend result…So the film should end the weekend closer to $49M than $50M. Which is stil a solid result for a film the studio claims cost only $125M because of UK tax credits and low CGI costs. (By the way, that ‘R’ rating was blamed on one really gross scene.)”
Update 9/6/12: Deadline – To Hollywood’s surprise tonight, Prometheus (3,396 theaters) and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (4,258 theaters) are in a dog fight for #1. No one least of all Twentieth Century Fox expected its R-rated scifi thriller to outgross DreamWorks Animation’s PG-rated family fare today. In fact Fox execs kept predicting no more than a $30M-$35M weekend result in an attempt to lower expectations, so the Fox film already is a big winner no matter which pic tops. Rival studios tell me that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus should win Friday. But Madagascar 3 distributed by Paramount should enjoy that Saturday kid bump as expected to win the weekend.
Update 9/6/12: Deadline – Rival studios now say Prometheus is looking to open with a huge $26M Friday and $68M weekend. That’s rare indeed for an R-rated pic. But Fox, the studio that specializes in lowering expectations, disputes thos numbers. “There is no mathematical scenario I know of that we hit $68M. Even at $26M for today, we get to $66.5M – and there is nothing on this green earth that shows us hitting $26M today,” a Fox exec huffed at me. “I could see us doing $22M today which would likely get us to $56M.” No matter, a great result.
Update 8/6/12: Deadline – Prometheus in North America debuted to $3.561M in midnight screenings at 1,368 locations. That’s a $2,603 per-location average. Fox called it “a fantastic start”. The midnight numbers include $1.03M from 294 IMAX theaters. Coming into today, Prometheus already has amassed $51M from overseas territories that opened last weekend.
Update 4/6/12: “Continuing a growing trend, “Prometheus” launched internationally before domestic, and landed with $35 million in 15 markets on 4,695 screens. Top markets include: Russia – $11.1M, UK – $9.9M – FRANCE – $7M. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi beast will attack another 35 territories next weekend for a total of over 8,000 screens worldwide—5,500+ of those expected to be in 3D”.
Update 3/6/12: Deadline is reporting Prometheus is 319% of the Snow White opening in the UK, and 161% of both Snow White and holdover Men In Black 3. It’s also the biggest opening day for a Ridley Scott film ever in the UK grossing £2.2m ($3.39M).
Early box office results have come out over on The Hollywood Reporter. Its returns in the UK are 150% ahead of Snow White and Men in Black 3 combined. In France, it grossed $2.4M on Wednesday/Thursday and it’s the number 1 movie in Russia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland.
Prometheus has been tracking especially strong in the U.K., where the movie made its world premiere Thursday night.
Prometheus, headlining Noomi Repace and Michael Fassbender, opens June 8 in the U.S. It’s debuting in a total of 15 international markets a week ahead of its domestic launch, including France, where it grossed $2.4 million on Wednesday and Thursday (the movie scored the second-biggest opening-day gross of 2012 behind The Avengers for a non-French title).
Opening in Russia on Thursday, Prometheus grossed $2.2 million, the third-highest Fox opening of all time behind the third Ice Age 3 and Avatar. It opened No. 1 in Russia, as well as in Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland.
In Chile, Prometheus debuted to $70,000 on Thursday, the biggest opening day for a Scott-directed title and bigger than The Hunger Games and MIB3.
Thanks to seeasea and Spidey3121 for the news.
Not a chance. Spider Man is gonna rip into every other film.
I think the overseas totals at this stage will be where Prometheus will take in the most money. That R-rating hurt them. It really could have been pg-13.
Don't care about the box-office specifics though - I'm just happy it's doing well.
PROMETHEUS 2: Take it! Take my money!
[zero sarcasm mode]
Yep, says that on the Weyland timeline I believe.
If I had to guess, October 11th will give us another viral video, possibly featuring Guy Pearce.
Interesting to note that Super 8 cost $50m, District 9 cost $30m, while Green Lantern cost $200m.
Oh, yeah. I vaguely remember that. Hopefully there's more to it than that.
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I don't know, maybe grasping for straws..?
I'm not so sure if that's going to be the Blu Ray date...October 11th, 2012 is a Thursday, but Blu rays are usually released on Tuesdays...
$200 Million in sales and cable/netflix deals and then book and toys on top of that...
Tell that to GI Joe: Rise of Cobra which is getting a sequel when the movie did poorly domestically
Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan will account for considerable gross (at least $30m combined), plus especially Brazil and Mexico (and to a lesser degree) Venezuela which had their debuts not too long ago and has been tracked by Box Office Mojo only recently. That will amount to another $15m at least (it already earned around $13m in Brazil and Mexico at this point, plus Venezuela could get another $2m). Poland, Austria, and Switzerland should generate $15m combined too.
So, at the very least it will get $330m (considering it's nearing the end of its theatrical run in the US but it could still get some of the last bucks). Not bad for a...human.
PS: What kind of things the big studios spend on marketing? Jesus, does it cost them $150 million to print one-sheet posters? To book the movie stars on Jay Leno? Tell me! They should just scrap this marketing spending altogether!
PROMETHEUS is banned in China because it promotes alternate religious thinking. Seriously?
They were also considering banning MIB 3 because time travel is a dangerous idea. But as it turned out, MIB3 is allowed to be screened in China and gross an excellent $75 million so far. Also, TRANSFORMERS 3, a science fiction about space faring giant beings grossed $145 million in that country. I think Fox should push for PROMETHEUS to be released in China where the space program has become a recent technological milestone for the people there.
Also like to know what territories it has to open up in??? I think Japan, China?
Yeah, unless it does what it did in the UK I can see it making about $30 million give or take from those 4 territories (that is judging on the performance of the most recent films in those locations).
But I'd say there's still $15-$17 million left in the domestic box office to gain (looking at the decline with other films) and another $20 million overseas before any of those territories open. I don't think $300 million will be hard to get to but i do think it'll be the last milestone the film crosses.
Of course, my bad!
Based on that I can't imagine we'll get a sequel straightaway. At least not without a reduced budget.
It's better than not doubling your money, but it's not exactly blockbuster either.
Budget is reportedly $120-130m. Conservatively speaking chuck on another $50m for promotions, then (also conservatively) add another $50m to the box office for home media and other merch.
And it took seven years to go from Alien to Aliens.
Bombed critically.
Had the benefit of being a cheap production though, thus making it easier to make it's money back.
It's not funny at all.
After box office, those stats on places like IMDB and RT give an overall consensus on how a film was recieved by critics and punters (assuming there's enough votes for it to be legit). It's somethnig that's quantifiable.
What's funny is people falling back on non-quantifiable anecdotal bullshit like "I didn't like [film x] and neither did my friends, therefore everyone didn't like it".
Alien Resurrection says "Hi".
Whatever. AvP make 80mil domestic. Lol.
It's funny people have been using this argument for almost decades on the INTERNET.
"The Majority" of rotten tomatoes/IMDB is part of the "Minority" on the INTERNET.
I can't think of a friend who vote there or even know its existence and even if I know both of them, I don't vote.
Those websites mostly concentrates as fan service and infos that any casual wouldn't dare to try searching.
Sure it's not only that, but it's definitely not a "majority" as a whole.
That's exactly what I would call these numbers. Decent for the series and rating but it's no runaway train at the box office.
Well, outside of the alien/ridley fanboy sphere let me assure you that a lot of people are tearing the movie apart.
About the numbers i can't tell since i'm not familiar with fox's financial balance, but according to past box office history,
those numbers are at best decent, but far from huge success.
I hope we get a sequel, and that they won't make the same mistakes.
Only one more, please.
But is that cheaper than Alien 3 when adjusted for inflation (A3 had a $50 million budget in 92) . Honestly, I'm all up for placing my faith in that but I can't find any box office or film stat website that quotes the budget anything under $60 million.
I'm not one for hankering after pointless sequels... but I'm not sure where you are getting your facts from??? Box office returns are very, very good and the movie has a very healthy A.I from aundiences and critics.
That's a figure pulled out of thin air (I've seen it quoted as that too). But in actuality it cost relatively little for a mid-size blockbuster. Anderson says on the AvP commentary "it cost less than Alien 3" and there's a Variety article somewhere where a Fox exec sings it's praises and quotes "45". Plus, it was filmed in Prague, which back in 2004 was cheap as f**k.
But for those who didn't get their personal pet Alien fantasy movie, nothing will ever make up for the crushing disappointment. *shrugs* Live with it. Some of us are very happy with the movie and look forward to the (I suspect inevitable) sequel announcement.
I saw Prometheus as an attempt to reinvigorate a franchise that public no longer thought of as being quality (as with Batman Begins) but nonetheless this doesn't change that much like Fox are doing with X Men, the Alien series is a franchise that Fox have always pushed on with. Also that Prometheus has posted the best domestic tally since Alien 3 when adjusted for inflation. The box office is also not yet up with key territories such as Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan yet to open. $260 million is the current total but far from final.
Everywhere I read I see AvP's budget as being $70 million. I also remember reading around the time that one of the sets burnt down during an explosion though that could have just been fluff.