Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Apr 29, 2017, 08:23:47 PM
We have Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 coming out. I feel like AC may not reach #1 at the box office on the first week. Fox made the same mistake with Prometheus by releasing it on the same week with another shitty kids movie.
Pirates is out one week after Alien: Covenant in the states. So that leaves diary of a wimpy kid and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 as its big contenders. King Arthur is out around then too, I think a week earlier, but I do not get the impression that many are interested in that. So really, I think Alien has plenty of room to do well because Diary of a wimpy kid audience is probably not interested in A:C and vice versa. Guardians will have been out a couple of weeks and while it and alien might share a portion of their audience, 2 weeks is enough time to allow people to see both realistically. Pirates of the Caribbean does seem to be reviewing well but I also think the audiences are different enough, and Alien is a week earlier.
So to keep it simple: Alien: Covenant will be the only mainstream hard R movie out during a period now where people seem more open to that. Also it carries the alien name, unlike Prometheus, and the marketting campaign has been top notch. I feel certain it will out perform prometheus at the least and possibly double Prometheus' box office if there is positive word of mouth and people are all about it on social media. Very optimistic myself!