Box Office Mojo are reporting that 20th Century Fox has reported that Alien: Covenant has taken in an estimated total of $42 million at the box office during its international opening weekend. According to Deadline, Alien: Covenant came up as the number 2 studio movie in the international box office.
“Fox has finally sent over debut international results for Alien: Covenant, which released in 34 international markets this weekend with an estimated $42 million. The film was #1 in 19 of its opening markets including South Korea ($7.2m), UK ($6.4m), France ($4.5m), Australia ($3.1m), Spain ($1.9m) and Hong Kong ($1.8m). Next weekend, along with its domestic debut in 3,600+ theaters, the film will open in 52 markets including Germany, Russia and Sweden.
Here’s a look at the top performing markets and how this opening compares to Prometheus:
- South Korea – $7.2m (+52.58% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- United Kingdom – $6.4m (-39.85% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- France – $4.53m (-38.41% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Australia – $3.09m (-79.40% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Mexico – $2.46m (-24.90% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Spain – $1.9m (-71.63% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Hong Kong – $1.76m (+17.24% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Brazil – $1.63m (-52.47% vs. Prometheus Opening)
- Italy – $1.29m (-66.68% vs. Prometheus Opening)”
Alien: Covenant opens on the 19th for the United States and is currently projected to take in between $37-$40 million domestically. For comparison, Prometheus took in $51 million over its domestic opening weekend but had 3D tickets to bolster its performance.
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Amendment – Updated to correct the predicted take as being domestic, not international.
Only problem is that it had some massive drop-offs in the majority of foreign markets as well (compared to Prometheus). A massive 80% drop in Australia's opening weekend for example. The Asian markets are looking a bit better though, would be interesting to see how it fares in Japan and China.
lol they're not going to compromise their poker face.
You can select previous years too. Over 40 would have been great to get to 100m.
Are you the same person?
PS: Prometheus did have Thursday evening showings. I went to one.
Marvel movies are notorious for getting consistent BO takings for a number of weeks before drifting off. It's why the majority of their films take in obscene amounts.
It went up against a marvel movie in its third weekend and barely beat it. AC had no real competition.
Fox is not going to be very pleased with this OW. Plenty of horror movies and r movies open up at number one.
Fox will be pleased as Rated R films and Horror in general very rarely reach number one let alone number one in a month dominated by one of Marvel's cash cows.
I would imagine a sigh of relief after King Arthur. The fate that suffered sends serious chills down studio exec spines. 36m isn't gangbusters but it's not a dud either. It's weird but the difference 4m makes. It it landed the original forecast of 40m the press would be more upbeat.
I would rather be in Fox shoes with 36m off 93m than Europacorp sweating it with 180m riding on Luc Bessons Valerian film. That one looks like a huge roll of the dice. I hope it hits though because it looks amazing
Can even mention the lack of 3-D.
Feel we're just over-compensating for what is a disappointing result. First Chris Cornell, now this bombing, bloody hell I'm miserable this weekend lol
They do the Thrusday instead of midnight friday shows (which Prometheus in both 2d and 3d had, I went to one of them).
Estimates is what it is based on using advanced ticket sales and using average sunday drop off for opening weeks films that are rated R and grossed that kinda money.
Also remember Fox only keeps about half that money. So $36m begins to translate to 18m for fox. They make less overseas. Though the huge tax break they got nicely offsets that.
I dont understand ? can someone explain to me how, whoever is out there can proclaim these numbers ? when SUNDAY isn't over yet. As of writting this these are some of america's timezones
Time in Austin Texas 11:10am Sunday
Time in New York 12:10pm Sunday
Time in California 9:15am Sunday
Time in Detroit 12:15pm Sunday
I would also like to point out Thursday nights numberes are NOT included in the 36 million and that prometheus never had thusday late night showing so if a comparison should be made, include the 4.2 million on thursday before giving up on this films chances of a sequel
Not really... this weekend will give a better view on how it's doing. domestically it's very disappointing if it can't crack 40.
Which in itself is interesting.
then again, reading the box office results is rather dramatic.
I must say though, i'm not too influenced by it. I will appreciate a movie based on what i see, not what other poeple think.
But it must be said, excitement rises when you hear box office sales records getting crushed, and at the moment, the box office sales
are disappointing which doesn't really do good for excitement.
Spoiler
Edit: spoiler tag added
No, not at all.
Yikes. I guess it's in line with tracking & FOX's own public estimates. Certainly doesn't feel like anything resembling a win however.
I'm scratching my head somewhat at what has people so confused? BO reporting isn't rocket science. The Thursday preview #'s are always included in the Friday "opening day" gross. Weekend estimates always come out approx. 11 AM on Sunday. The bigger the #'s, the bigger the potential alteration once actual #'s come in on Monday.
First off, 4.2 + 15.3 + 12 = 31.5 mil, not 34.2 mil. Secondly: you counted the Thursday cross twice. No one is estimating a 1.8 million Sunday. They're estimating an 8.8 mil Sunday, considering 15.3 + 12 = 27.3
Good to hear friend!
That is what irks me about here in the states and the BO results. The opening night theatre I attended at a cinemark on their XD screen (their version of IMAX) was probably 90% full for the second screening and sold out for the first screening. Yesterday, at 3pm, the theatre was 75% full and people were already lined up for the screening after that when I left. So going by what I observed, the numbers feel like they should of been much higher for BO results.
Still though, with looking at the numbers, are they really only estimating 1.6 million for Sunday? Cause they would just need to do 4 to 5 million (less than half of Saturday) to hit 40 million.
Let's hope not. Scott was the main draw for me.
In the UK I went to two screenings - nine days apart. Cinema was packed to capacity on both occasions. In fact some people in the queue were turned away at the second screening and they booked for the following day instead.
36 is very very very low. It's not ok domestically. If it sticks to that number then gotg2 almost beat it in its third week.
Probably they find another Director to direct it.
Exactly... Well, we would know within a short amount of time whether Fox will allow Ridley Scott to continue his sequel. He wants to shoot 13 months from now, which means preproduction would be starting later this year, probably around October or so.
Good points... I know it will do much better than 1.8 million on Sunday. At least here the theatres are pretty active on Sundays.
So my understanding is this, Thursday Night 4.2 million , Friday 15.3 million, Saturday 12 million 11:25pm = 34.2 million. They could be screening scheduled after 11:25 Saturday night which obviously would not be included yet and of course SUNDAY, so like I said perhaps im wrong and point out if I am, but how could anyone come to the conclusion it'll make a total of 36 million by the end of Sunday, that means it'll make 1.8 million all day Sunday ?
There's a questionable lack of thirst for decent Sci-Fi/Horror in America. I wasn't the biggest fan of Life but it deserved to do better than it did, and Alien: Covenant is competently made and well acted, no matter what side of the fence you sit on, but it just hasn't translated.
Prometheus scored a B, Life scored a C+ and Covenant scored a B among audiences. All middling scores and left eating the dust of audience reaction to the likes of Power Rangers and Transformers whcih scored A's.
Hats off to 20th Century Fox for backing this one all the way though. It's received the most lavish advertisement of an any Alien movie. Hopefully they recoup some money internationally, hope is not lost there.
Estimated $36million for the weekend now. What a flop.
Yes. The idea of glitches with a killer AI was brought up in "2001" with HAL.
- "Covenant" gives the viewer an interesting premise; what if a glitchy AI decides to become the evil god of the galaxy?
The glitchy AI has a weapon of mass destruction, the black goo.
And this psychotic AI (for lack of a better term) is trying to create an army of Xenomorph (or xenomorph like) creatures.
What can be done about that?
I'm looking forward to the next Alien sequel to find out.
* And what will help is the low production budget and very good box office numbers (so far).
It's pretty certain that there will be another movie in this series. Yeah!
In a way you're right, but I think it's that his A.I. is starting to have glitches.
I agree.
It's very interesting that David sees himself as THE GOD and at the same time he forgotten about his favorites books and authors.
Maybe David has Alzeihmer?
Yes.
* Ridley needs to be true to himself imo.
He doesn't over explain things in "Blade Runner", "Prometheus" and "Covenant".
- So, what is the answer to what David said in "Covenant"?
The film theory which explains it is this.
1. David in "Covenant" has delusions of grandeur.
2. David in "Covenant" is a compulsive liar.
* This tells the viewer that whatever David said about the xenomorph origins should not be trusted.
* Scott has put ample evidence in "Covenant" about David's delusions and lies.
Imo there is nothing to fix about whatever David said in the new movie.
Was certainly way more than that.
Robopadna what was your estimate again?
Good points and yes I am optimistic myself.
Those of us seeing the movie 3+ times certainly are helping
The news is very good. Here is what Box Office Mojo has so far.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alienparadiselost.htm
This is outstanding work by Ridley to keep costs low.
Double this with a box office number (~$200 million) and the production costs are paid. (Studios keep ~1/2 of box office money while the theaters get their share.)
- Next would be marketing costs which might be about $50 million. I'm guessing since studios rarely release those numbers these days.
My guess is that if "Covenant" can get to $300 million box office, that it will be making a profit in theaters. (I've got formulas for this but I won't bore people with that here unless someone asks me.)
- Then there is the money from streaming, disk sales, TV broadcasts, toys, etc.
"Covenant" will make money and there will be another new Alien film.
Worldwide box office numbers up through Friday, May 19;
PS. I ran the numbers for a total budget of about $150 million for "Covenant" which includes marketing costs.
The worldwide box office number it would have to reach with the formula I have is ~$263 million to definitely make a profit in theaters.
SNL Kagan has a formula to show when a movie has definitely made money.
It is 1.75 times the total budget.
$150 million x 1.75 = $262.5 million
http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/movie-profits-december-snl-kagan/