Alien: Romulus has been out in theaters now for just over a month, and has shown that it continues to have legs at the box office. After an initial opening of 42 million, Romulus
According to Box Office Mojo, Alien: Romulus has grossed $331,516,724, with nearly 70% of its returns coming from non-US countries. China in particular has been a surprisingly strong market for the film, in which the movie had no censorship cuts and also a news story about a frightened child taken to the film that sparked discussion among the Chinese public.
Romulus also recently passed 100 million at the US domestic box office.
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Not accounting for inflation, Alien: Romulus is now the second highest grossing film in the franchise. It still has a bit over 70 million to go to overtake Prometheus’ impressive 403 million worldwide haul.
It’s also being reported today on movie news sites that Alien: Romulus has become the most successful horror release for IMAX ever. Not bad for a movie originally planned for release on Hulu.
The success of Romulus is a turnaround from the last theatrical Alien film, Alien: Covenant, which had a massive drop in performance on its second weekend of domestic release.
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Joker 2 got absolutely MURDERED by reviews, too.
Best of from Rotten Tomatoes:
It seems like it's crashing hard and the crash is entirely deserved.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1842949380879573385
Romulus 2M more.
Is important understand positive of +350M of Romulus becose others movies like Joker II make less in world ( maybe less of 300M, very negative impact is next weeks ) with budget 190M.
And original film Joker (2019) make 1000M... And Romulus to come of Covenant with 240M.
I'm pleased that it was so well received.
Although there was a lot of criticism and resentment,
Most people weren't put off by it.
We live in fast-moving times.
Even bigger films are out of the cinema in no time.
but it is reflected in everything.
Everything has to happen faster and faster.
It's really fun to watch the first alien film in peace and quiet, especially these days.
Yeah I almost always go IMAX for movies I'm really hyped about. Tickets are so expensive here in Australia that it filters out most of the trash.
Plus some movies just work better on the big screen. I can imagine Twisters would lose a bit of its impact on TV.
People f**king suck. And the older I get the less I want to be around them.
6 times I went to see Romulus at the cinema and 6 times it was ruined by what I like to call "c**ts"
The day cinemas die the f**king better.
That's the end of my Ted Talk
He has done 6m worldwide since last Sunday.
Slow pace to make +350M.
Does not affect the digital release.
The problem is people who don't go to the cinema because it will be released in digital format in a month.
That has not happened fortunately with Romulus.
Last Mission Impossible and Indy 5 have failed at the box office (and many more blockbusters in the last two years like Furiosa , Lightyear or Joker II than will make less of 400M or 500M, with budget 200M, when Joker 1 make 1000M).
Romulus's +350 must be valued positively becose context cinema is different dice pandemic and new plataforms and model.
In the 30s a film could be in theaters for 1 year.
In the 90s about 6 or 7 months.
Years ago about 3 or 4 months and now, if you're lucky, if the film is a success, it lasts two months or two months half like Deadpool and Wolverine but if it fails, less than a month.
The movie industry changed so much in the last decades. I remember Silent Hill reaching the silver screen in April 2006 and staying in theaters for more than three months. Today Alien: Romulus makes 3,5 times the box-office results and is kicked out from cinema in half the time.
Shocking to see how much of a fast motion film slaughterhouse the movie industry has become.
Come on, you can break the $350m mark!
Replace "solid" with "vapid" and I fully agree.
Oh, hi there! You prob know Ernest Hemingway said: "in every space station, at least two Estonians can be found," or was it in every port, I don't remember.
Thanks.
Romulus was 40-50M cheaper than Prometheus so they're even give or take.
Boxoffice web they not update too ( only to friday ) . In fews hours they do it.
This web yes update to sunday.
https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Alien-Romulus-(2024)#tab=box-office
12m from last Sunday ( 330M ) to today (341.5M).
It means that it still has 10-15M more to go in the next three weeks.
350M will is sure
355M is plausible
360M is difficult but not impossible.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt18412256/
Boxoffice finally will make more or less in 355-360M in world.
More of quadruple.
4.5 x 80M.
Without 100M from China it would be a success too with more three times the budget.
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I can't think of a less deserving and cynically produced movie than this to do gangbusters at the box office.
On the other hand, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is doing very well at the box office and deserves every last cent.
Swings and roundabouts.
Neighbour Estonian here. Underground unauthorized cinemas prob don't exist in USA so would have ended up in a real cinema, then again they wouldn't have let me in. The first Alien movie that I was able to see in a proper cinema was Resurrection, went to see it four times.
Yes, he is at the top here. It's a pity, of course, that it doesn't go to the studio box office; then it would have overtaken Prometheus. And many of us really like the film. Are you from the USA?
That's a huge amount if true, means the movie has to be one of the top 3 films of the year there.
Of course the film studio gets none of it, as all of that money stays in Russia. Prob why post 2022, Hollywood seems to be pushing Chinese markets even more, at least the studio gets something from there.
I read somewhere that he collected 80 million from us, if you count in dollars. Pretty ok, Covenant was worse in this regard
Wonder how much the Russian box office would have been for Romulus, prob would have added 20+ mil for the global total. Wondering about the image/sound quality too; can they somehow get a lossless copy or do they show cam rips in the cinemas.
I remember soon after the Soviet Union fell, when Hollywood films were starting to appear in local cinemas but not Alien 3. I was able to see Alien 3 as an 8-year-old in a local Russian-operated underground cinema. It turned out they didn't even have a cinema screen, and it was a VHS copy on a CRT in a cellar. Anyway I bought the ticket as I was dying to see a new Alien film. Even with a Russian dub that I didn't understand a word of (apart from the translation to "f**k!") and horrible quality, I loved the film. Somehow the experience fit the tone of Alien 3.
Tell that to poor Elizabeth Shaw!
haha exactly.
That's why they made The Hobbit. they wanted to be absolutely sure.
I'm happy that Romulus is so well received. This is a slap in the face to all the haters out there.
(I see mostly bad reviews on YouTube. But every idiot clucks around there)
There are certainly some bad decisions in this film but it just has too many great moments to call it bad.
and YES, the same applies to Covenant in my opinion.
I watched it three times in the cinema. One of my favorite parts, I'm waiting for the digital release. Both parents and friends liked it too
Mo problemz
Without covenant ruining the novelty of seeing a modern Xenomorph movie, it would have legit passed Prometheus