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Google says the biggest flop of the year is some movie called The Promise.
Estimated Budget: $90 million
Worldwide Box Office: $8,224,288
Estimated Budget: $90 million
Worldwide Box Office: $8,224,288
Prometheus Sequel (ALIEN: Covenant)
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I guess it must be because I've never heard of that one. But I meant of the usual summer fair -- the ones that are generally expected to be the big money makers.
What summer film faired worse than Covenant?
What summer film faired worse than Covenant?
The mummy......... way way worse. Much more of a loss
Jmek
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The movie didn't bomb mate.
It barely broke even. Has definitely not turned a profit yet
Jmek
Super Freak
It' still playing, and has yet to be released in Japan. It's not making as much money as Fox would have hoped, but it's in no way a bomb. Dredd was a bomb, Blade Runner was a bomb, The Thing was a bomb. Alien Covenant will turn a profit.
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I think it would be King Arthur.
Why WB gave it such a high budget I have no idea. No King Arthur movie has made money.
Alien: Covenant
Production Budget: $97 million
Worldwide: $231,322,473
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Production Budget: $175 million
Worldwide: $140,509,033
The Mummy
Production Budget: $125 million
Worldwide: $376,620,025
Baywatch
Production Budget: $69 million
Worldwide: $153,270,496
Non-Summer
Ghost in the Shell
Production Budget: $110 million
Worldwide: $169,801,921
All these had super poor domestic performance.
King Arthur... that's the winner.
Oh yeah, I knew there was one I was forgetting.
Covenant spent more money on advertising than I have seen in many, many years. I imagine even if it breaks ever on its budget, or makes $100 million more, it will still be a long way from recouping its ad budget -- that must have been another $250 million at least. I think its still well over $100 million in the hole.
But clearly we have two other winners: Arthur and Mummy.
Oh yeah, I knew there was one I was forgetting.
Covenant spent more money on advertising than I have seen in many, many years. I imagine even if it breaks ever on its budget, or makes $100 million more, it will still be a long way from recouping its ad budget -- that must have been another $250 million at least. I think its still well over $100 million in the hole.
But clearly we have two other winners: Arthur and Mummy.
Jmek
Super Freak
King Arthur... that's the winner.
Oh yeah, I knew there was one I was forgetting.
Covenant spent more money on advertising than I have seen in many, many years. I imagine even if it breaks ever on its budget, or makes $100 million more, it will still be a long way from recouping its ad budget -- that must have been another $250 million at least. I think its still well over $100 million in the hole.
But clearly we have two other winners: Arthur and Mummy.
Why should you care though? Do you have stock in Fox? Or is it that you didn't like the film and would get some pleasure out of it if it does financially fail?
Are you genuinely asking me... or are you upset I erroneously made the assumption that Covenant was the summer's worst film? I don't really understand your question on a discussion board?
Jmek
Super Freak
No not upset, merely curious. I didn't like Prometheus but didn't want the film to fail and didn't really take in any interest in how it did financially. Nor did I want Scott tarred and feathered and run out of town. But a lot of fans seem to want Covenant to be a bomb for some reason, which seems odd to me.
As father of the Robots & Aliens section on this board, I would never want that.
I was simply curious if Covenant was the biggest bomb... I had forgotten about Mummy already. As anyone who is curious who did the best in any given summer, I am equally ever-curious who did the worst. Seems like a natural competitive question.
I love Ridley, but he's done far worse than Covenant. I don't think anyone is running him out of town.
I was simply curious if Covenant was the biggest bomb... I had forgotten about Mummy already. As anyone who is curious who did the best in any given summer, I am equally ever-curious who did the worst. Seems like a natural competitive question.
I love Ridley, but he's done far worse than Covenant. I don't think anyone is running him out of town.
Jmek
Super Freak
Fair enough.
Covenant's not going to be a runaway success, but it should get to where it would need to be for the series to continue. Well, in some form at least. I think it would be prudent for Fox to do an Aliens sequel for the fans, a la Rogue One. It would make a lot of fans happy, and probably be more of a commercial hit. Personally I'm looking forward to getting me mitts on the Covenant 4k blu ray, roll on August!
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Uhhhhhhhhhh this was a BOMB- look at the numbers again as far as what it did against just about every major studio release. BOMB
It under-performed to say the least even if the term BOMB doesn't fit it
Ridley will bounce back but Alien is an exhaused franchise
It under-performed to say the least even if the term BOMB doesn't fit it
Ridley will bounce back but Alien is an exhaused franchise
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Bo Shrek
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I am one of those that went into Covenant having not seen the trailer. I watched the movie for the first time…….the first time. Now that I have seen it I look forward to rewatching on blu ray to pick up all the details that cannot be seen the first time. I enjoyed this new villian that is being created in “David”! If there was a character I was routing for it was him/it!!! I will enjoy rewatching this movie.
Aliens
Alien
Predator
Alien 3
Predator 2
Covenant
Prometheus
Predators
Alien Resurrection
AvP
AvP:R
Or simply remove the Predator-related films and that's my current ranking of the Alien franchise by itself
Alien
Predator
Alien 3
Predator 2
Covenant
Prometheus
Predators
Alien Resurrection
AvP
AvP:R
Or simply remove the Predator-related films and that's my current ranking of the Alien franchise by itself
Pretty much how I'd rank them as well a-dev.
I would switch alien with predator because predator is better.
Would definitely, definity switch predator 2 with alien 3 because predator 2 tried something new and it is more entertaining
Would definitely switch prometheus with covenant.
And would switch avp with alien resurrection
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Alien
Predator
Aliens
Predator 2
Predator
Aliens
Predator 2
