Alien: Covenant Box Office Performance

[Darth Vile]

I think audiences are getting a bit bored with episodic films, regardless of their relative merits/flaws. In my humble opinion, the best films (sans perhaps The Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather Part 2) are self contained and standalone (even films like Terminator 2 or Aliens). It's no surprise that audiences are bored with Alien and Ape films etc.

[Nukiemorph]

It's a review for the second quarter of the year.  War for the Planet of the Apes came out in July.  They'll complain about that one next quarter.

But if such a widely acclaimed movie like that makes similarly lackluster numbers, I think it's more proof that studios shouldn't be releasing anything but major superhero movies during superhero season.

Covenant should have stayed in October.

[Richman678]

Is there a way to track Blu Ray sales?

[Nukiemorph]

Is there a way to track Blu Ray sales?

This is the only site I know of.  Doesn't look like any blu-ray sale data is posted yet.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Alien-Covenant#tab=summary

[Corporal Hicks]

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/top.php

According to Blu-ray.com the normal Blu-ray is #1, the 4K is #4.

[Mister Skeezler]

I bought it and watched it last night.

[lv_226]

Just a mild curiosity, I didn't think that creating a new thread specifically for this was appropriate. Why is the Japanese Covenant release in September? In this era of downloading and streaming (whether legal or not) it blows my mind that Fox would think that releasing the film after the home video was available pretty much in most major markets would be a good idea.

[Ingwar]

Almost every Hollywood movie is released later in Japan.

[Nukiemorph]

I'm sure box office takes a hit when Japanese fans can download a 1080 blu-ray rip a month sooner.

But I don't know if Hollywood even cares that much.  Our movies don't make a ton over there anyway.  The most any movie can expect there seems to be about $20 million.

[bb-15]

I'm sure box office takes a hit when Japanese fans can download a 1080 blu-ray rip a month sooner.

But I don't know if Hollywood even cares that much.  Our movies don't make a ton over there anyway.  The most any movie can expect there seems to be about $20 million.

All true.
But if "Covenant" earned $20 million in Japan, it would be a solid boost to its overall box office (divided by production budget).
So, I'm still rooting for decent numbers from Japan just so the Fox studio will be encouraged to release another Alien movie in the next 5 years.

[Hamster1066]

It's a shame a film like this doesn't do better. I wonder if the limited runtime that a cinema film has compared to a HBO series means that such films are struggling to find a balance that sells the story as well as it could? Transitional times perhaps?

[SuicideDoors]

http://m.homemediamagazine.com/research/alien-covenant-debuts-no-1-disc-sales-charts-40667

NUMBER UNO

[monkeylove]

Related:

"Yes, Summer Box Office Was Bad — and Here's 6 Reasons Why the Worst is Yet to Come"

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/08/summer-box-office-bad-foreign-audience-transformers-despicable-me-1201868845/

[Corporal Hicks]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/

Here's the link so we keep an eye out for Japan's BO results over the weekend.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Alien-Covenant#tab=international

Apparently, internationally, Covenant did best in China. $45 million.

[Corporal Hicks]

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/top-sellers/top-20-selling-blu-ray-discs-week-ended-090917

Some Blu-ray chart stuff.