Started by John73, May 14, 2017, 05:51:54 PM
Quote"Game over, man, game over." ALIEN: COVENANT lost over 1,100+ theaters in its 3rd week, falling -62% w/ just $4M, $67M total.
Quote from: juxtapose on Jun 04, 2017, 02:20:13 PMi was just thinking about how badly that Life movie performed at thaeters as well. .it was basicly dead on arrival despite having ok reviews on RT. audiences gave it a terrible c-. .judging from that i guess audiences are not that keen on horror sci fi anymore. .to be honest i was already weary of covenants performance at that stage. .it seemed to me like a bad omen. .at least covenant is not considered quite as big a flop in comparison. .
Quote from: juxtapose on Jun 04, 2017, 03:25:25 PM. .they did do a an expensive trailer at the superbowl and several other trailers on youtube. .some interviews as well. .
Quote from: fiveways on Jun 04, 2017, 01:19:56 PMIn the end what hurt box office is the Alien. Prometheus was a franchise mostly free of that association and profited for it. Covenant is the example of what happen when you take a successful film with sequel possibility and listen to a vocal minority of fans. Few people in North America wanted another Alien film. Box office totals reflect that. Word of mouth boiled down to "Oh another Alien flick" and indifference.Maybe Prometheus 2 would also have crashed and burned. Maybe it is the market or whatever other factors you wanna bring into it. Personally, I think they made a not so great film about a creature people are tired of seeing.Just for fun I looked up other played out Creature feature characters. Alien: Covenant with a bigger star and a better director isn't doing much better than either the Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th remakes domestically while costing a huge amount more. This is just domestic comparisons. Alien is doing way better overseas without question. Nightmare on Elm Street 2010: $63,075,011/35m budgetFriday the 13th 2009: $65,002,019/19m budgetAlien Covenant: $64,334,484/97m budgetNote: Those numbers are not including inflation, which brings Ft13 to over 74m and Nightmare to 71m in 2017 dollars.
Quote from: fiveways on Jun 04, 2017, 03:26:59 PMQuote from: juxtapose on Jun 04, 2017, 03:25:25 PM. .they did do a an expensive trailer at the superbowl and several other trailers on youtube. .some interviews as well. .I had no idea. (That said, I'm not in the USA so the Superbowl is far less important in day to day life). I saw nothing about it on any of the other horror forums I'm on.
Quote from: Predaker on Jun 04, 2017, 01:29:48 PMI think Daniels haircut negatively affected ticket sales.
Quote from: Protozoid on Jun 04, 2017, 04:01:31 PMAttempts to blame Prometheus are futile and sad. It gt better reviews because it was intriguing. Reviews stated so. They rated Covenant lower because it was formulaic. Reviews stated so. Prometheus saved the franchise, actually. Covenant is doing the opposite.
Quote from: bananasalesperson on Jun 04, 2017, 09:18:23 PMRidley Scott went full Lucas on us.