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Top 10 films May 19-21 in UK.
1. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, £2,501,993 from 564 sites (new)
2. Alien: Covenant, £2,127,347 from 631 sites. Total: £10,003,742 (two weeks)
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, £1,942,687 from 599 sites. Total: £36,309,702 (four weeks)
4. Snatched, £842,489 from 465 sites (new)
5. The Boss Baby, £414,954 from 527 sites. Total: £26,819,979 (seven weeks)
6. A Dog's Purpose, £263,233 from 432 sites. Total: £2,464,023 (three weeks)
7. Fast & Furious 8, £230,868 from 346 sites. Total: £29,385,156 (six weeks)
8. Beauty and the Beast, £158,496 from 373 sites. Total: £71,878,441 (10 weeks)
9. Colossal, £150,642 from 145 sites (new)
10. Half Girlfriend, £115,183 from 67 sites (new)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/23/king-arthur-alien-covenant-uk-box-office
In UK Covenant made 10 millions in 2 weeks. Prometheus in total made nearly 40 millions! Covenant is gonna flop BIG TIME!
Prometheus was Scott's biggest ever hit in the UK. Covenant is actually doing respectable business over here - it's in America it's struggling.
That's not a surprise... Covenant is almost like an arthouse film trying to be commercial. I'm not sure that naturally jives with American audiences as much as European's.
I really don't see it as being any more of an arthouse film than inception which made massive amounts of money in the US.
Nolan's Inception was off the back of a hugely popular film i.e. The Dark Knight. It also starred one of the biggest film stars (in terms of Hollywood). It had a much bigger budget and had substantially more action... and on a bigger scale. Inception is the better film, IMO, but its certainly more mainstream in terms of tone and structure, even if the concept was quite esoteric.
Inception was way more indie than Covenant in most ways (Covenant is a horror film but that doesn't make it 'indie'). Everywhere from structure to tone. Are you in a reality or not? You could say Covenant maybe is borderline fairy tale/nightmare but overall it's sort of all over the place. Honestly Covenant, like Nolan's movies, tries to be a summer blockbuster but inject a few higher concepts in it.
Much like Scott himself, it can't settle on one theme to really follow. I don't think that makes it any more indie than any other movie, just unfocused.
Also, let's be honest, you are comparing it to a guy who just came off making a HUGE mainstream film in the Martian with one of the more bankable actors in hollywood.