Covenant had the most promo, trailers, and footage before its release out of any movie this year that I can remember honestly, and to be quite frank it flopped here in America. 36 million isn't too good and when numbers tally up may not even take over gotg2 for this weekend, was that close according to
comingsoon.net. Mixed to bad reviews I think killed this plus the fact that they prolly over estimated the public even wanting another alien movie. Die hard fans will always want more alien films, its just what we do. Everyone else apparently could care less and it showed. I know there is no 3D so that kinda of deflates numbers but it is im IMAX where I happened to see it for 21 bucks and still should have made more money. The suits definitely cannot be pleased with this past weekends numbers that's for sure. I could care less about how well it does to be honest only for the simple reason to get another movie. Hopefully they let him wrap it up with the last film but I seriously doubt they will allow or green light 2 more sequels/prequels like he had been saying. Even Ridley has to be kind of shocked and disappointed with the numbers as he was boasting before its release that he would immediately try to start production on the next film, as if to say I know covenant will be a hit so I'm gonna go right into the next one. I don't know if it will be that simple now. They really need to listen to the criticism on the cgi and pacing of movie. They cannot satisfy everyone's wishes for what the sequel is to bring, but the consensus is the cgi looked bad at times and the pacing of the movie in third act was way too fast. I think if he is allowed to follow covenant up within a year and some change like he said he would like, he should very well pay close attention to what people attacked about covenant. Covenant was great until honestly David saved them imo. I like David in the movie, but the movie up to that point was almost flawless or reallly really good at least. Pacing was great, character interaction, atmosphere. Then once they got to citadel, the movie switched and I kinda was waiting for it to go back to the way it was on th he first half, which it never did. I did like covenant, but I can see where he messed up on it and how or why it didn't do as well as they thought it would. Gotg2 has something to do with it as well, but they wanted that spot for covenant so I'm sure they definitely anticipated it doing a lot better. Hopeful it makes up ground worldwide and they make enough to say , let him finish it
