When Alien: Covenant finally hit the big screens in the United States, it opened with a fairly strong $36 million. It was on the lower end of the predicted take (around $40 million) but it was still reasonable.
Despite fairly favorable critic reviews (currently certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 71% rating), unfortunately for 20th Century Fox and fans eager to see more of Alien: Covenant’s story direction, the film’s momentum didn’t last long.
According to an article shared by Forbes last Friday, Alien: Covenant’s taking dropped a massive 80% in its second week in the States which would put it in the top 10 of the biggest second week drop-offs of all time.
Providing an update on the box office situation yesterday, Deadline reported that the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and Baywatch released to much higher numbers in the States.
“Grossing another $10.8M from 77 markets, Fox and Ridley’s Scott’s Alien: Covenant just crossed the $100M threshold after experiencing some decent holds in certain markets — Russia is still No. 2 in the market in its sophomore frame after pulling in another $1.1M this weekend, for instance.
Likewise in Germany, it’s held on well for the No. 3 spot in its second weekend where it grabbed $914K. In the UK, it took in about $939K (weekend 3) and in France $914K (also week 3).
Remember, this one still has yet to bow in China or Japan, which it will do on June 16 and Sept.. 15, respectively. Overall, it has a cume after this weekend of $101M. Its global take is $161.5M.”
It would seem that Alien: Covenant is performing better worldwide, having taken in over $100 million, but it’s looking likely that Alien: Covenant is going to struggle to read the $80 million mark in the States. It’s not looking good for Alien: Covenant or any of the potential sequels Ridley Scott has spoken about previously.
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Hicks, I was kidding
I don't know how legit it is but it's all we got. Besides, since you're in good relations with Fox you might ask them
http://english.entgroup.cn/602960/
Just under $30 million over the weekend over all. Honestly, that's more than I was expecting.
Yup. Like... an apology isn't needed aha.
Just the writer's opinion.
Prometheus
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $126,477,084 31.4%
+ Foreign: $276,877,385 68.6%
= Worldwide: $403,354,469
A:Covenant
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $72,660,985 33.8%
+ Foreign: $142,300,000 66.2%
= Worldwide: $214,960,985
All interesting questions about whether there will be another prequel, if so who will direct and what will be the budget?
Kane's guesses fit the projections about final box office.
* What is known is that "Covenant" BO is now at about $215 million worldwide.
- From that I can speculate that it will end up in the $225 to $230 million range.
That would be underperforming but OK. Taking the ratio of box office divided by production budget; "Covenant" will probably do a little better than "Resurrection" and a little worse than "AVP".
- If there is another Alien movie, imo it would get something like the budget for "Life", in the $58 million range.
Such a budget could push out Ridley Scott from directing it.
China Watch Doraemon ?
sitting now at 215.0 mil worldwide. .
He'll soon be 80, has a full slate and a big enough ego to not be very content with the lukewarm reception of Covenant. Not to mention that Fox will most definitely demand a lower budget. I guess around $75 million or so.
It made enough that to series could continue under Scott.
But it also underperformed, and when Fox reads the reviews and comments, they will get the answer to the question of whether Prometheus would have been more successful as a direct Alien prequel. In other words, they overvalued the Alien brand and undervalued Prometheus. Fans seem to be slowly realizing this, also. Imagine if the bombing of Blade Runner was attributed to a lack of xenos and Scott made an immediate follow-up without Deckard but crawling with aliens? You can't recreated a past success. No Star Wars film has outperformed A New Hope. Most franchises trend downwards. And Scott has made four sci-fi movies that were great without being sequels to established franchises. Fox should stop recreating and start creating.
They will rethink the Alien prequel idea, again, which I think is good. Scott, Rothman, and Lindelof were vindicated in their belief that audiences want something fresh. Next time, they should listen to Scott more and hire a screenwriter with a fresh take, like Spaihts and Lindelof had. If (or, imo, when) that movie does better than Covenant, then they have definitive proof that fresh takes reinvigorate franchises and painting by the numbers slowly milks them dry.
Agreed. Let Riddles finish his trilogy,
After Alien: Resurrection and the AvP films, there really isn't any more damage that could be done imo. I don't mind this new direction, i'de be happy if Scott was allowed to do one more.
Went up to 7.08 Million for Sunday.
Still got my fingers crossed he's not allowed to do any further damage to the series.
60 M? No way, Transformers will kill every single movie next week.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCmHa0CXkAAzrw1.jpg:large
4.6M on Sunday.
Apparently it earned 9.73 M in its second day, that's almost 21 M already, which by the way is half of what Nostromo cost Weyland-Yutani in unadjusted dollars.
Prometheus earned 4.4 M in its opening week.
We're talking about 60 M easily.
Well then, I guess we're stuck with what's effectively a "Shrodinger's-edition" origin story. Perhaps for the best. The debate will continue and the franchise still maintains (somewhat of) a semblance of the original's genre-defining mysteriousness...
. .that was what one chinese memeber said on these board a while back. .before the 19th of may. .but i can't remember in which thread. .?
I hope. It's got a good start but Prometheus was 3D and it wasn't butchered by censorship as Covenant. Besides Transformers will slaughter all next week.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/06/16/china-box-office-alien-covenant-nabs-11m-friday-tom-cruises-the-mummy-drops-85/#2ed92842764d
It's much better that Prometheus in his first week.
Date(Weeks) Gross(M) Total Gross
12-09-17 - 12-09-23 (3) $4.9 $34.0
12-09-10 - 12-09-16 (2) $9.3 $29.0
12-09-03 - 12-09-09 (1) $15.3 $19.7
12-08-27 - 12-09-02 (0) $4.4 $4.4
@juxtapose
I love Parific Rim. Great movie. It's too bad it didn't do well at box office. Transformers franchise is full of ...
That's encouraging then. 30 mil would be a great start
Apparently word-of-mouth is really poor so the $10million firday is better than expected.