Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Jul 17, 2017, 06:36:20 AMIt's not box office related, but AC is #1 for sci-fi sales on Amazon.
That's good news for those who want a sequel to "Covenant". The more disk/streaming sales the higher the total income will be for the film.
I'll be getting "Covenant" on Blu-ray.
Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Jul 17, 2017, 06:36:20 AMAlso, Japan is a pretty big movie market... I am ... saying AC ... 20-40 million isn't out of the question, which puts it at 254-274 total. That, is a solid total. Not a flop.
Agreed.
* And box office which is about 2.6 x the production budget (or even below that) has gotten a sequel for several movies in the past.
- I've found over 20 movies where that happened for diffferent genres, budgets and several kinds of stories.
Here's the list;
- 2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Production Budget: $50,000,000, world box office: $125,168,734, ratio box office/budget = 2.5
- 2002 Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter), Production Budget: $78,000,000, world box office: $206,455,420, ratio box office/budget = 2.6
- 2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Production Budget: $225,000,000, world box office: $417,341,288, ratio box office/budget = 1.9
- 2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Production Budget: $150,000,000, world box office: $402,231,063, ratio box office/budget = 2.68
- 2002 The Santa Clause 2, Production Budget: $65,000,000, world box office: $172,825,854, ratio box office/budget = 2.65
- 2002 Halloween: Resurrection, Production Budget: $15,000,000, world box office: $37,659,652, ratio box office/budget = 2.47
- 2009 I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Production Budget: $19,000,000, world box office: $51,733,921, ratio box office/budget = 2.68
- 2011 Madea's Big Happy Family, Production Budget: $25,000,000, world box office: $53,345,287, ratio box office/budget = 2.12
- 2013 Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, Production Budget: $25,000,000, world box office: $52,543,354, ratio box office/budget = 2.1
- 1998 "Star Trek: Insurrection", Production Budget: $58 million. World box office = $112,587,658. ratio box office/budget = 1.93
- 2009 Star Trek, Production Budget: $150 million, World box office: $385,680,446. ratio box office/budget = 2.57
- 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness, Production Budget: $190 million, World box office: 467,381,469. ratio box office/budget = 2.46
- 1999 Analyze This, Production Budget: $80 million, World box office: $176,885,658, ratio box office/budget = 2.2
- 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand, production budget: $210,000,000, world box office: $459,359,555, ratio box office/budget = 2.19
- 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine, production budget: $150,000,000, world box office: $374,825,760, ratio box office/budget = 2.49
- 2011 X-Men: First Class, production budget: $160,000,000 world box office $355,408,305, ratio box office/budget = 2.22
- 2005 Batman Begins, Production Budget: $150 million, world box office: $374,218,241. ratio box office/budget = 2.49
- 2006 Underworld: Evolution, production budget: $45,000,000, world box office: $113,417,762, ratio box office/budget = 2.5
- 2009 Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans, production budget: $35,000,000, world box office: $89,102,315, ratio box office/budget = 2.5
- 2012 Underworld: Awakening, production budget: $70,000,000, world box office: $160,379,930, ratio box office/budget = 2.3
- 2015 The Divergent Series: Insurgent; production budget: $110,000,000, world box office: $295,279,072, ratio box office/budget = 2.68
- As for the Alien/AVP franchise "AVP" is not far from the box office/budget numbers of "Covenant".
- "AVP" Production Budget: $60 million. World Box office: $172,544,654. ratio box office/budget = 2.86
"AVP" got a sequel.
- And for the origin story topic; "Covenant" has a reboot of the origin of the Alien/xenomorph. It's also trying to begin a new timeline which leads to "Alien" and then goes beyond that.