Alien: Romulus has earned a solid $6.5 million in Thursday previews, with the film expected to break more than $28 million this weekend, according to Variety.
What’s Happening:
- Alien: Romulus, the latest chapter in the sci-fi horror saga, has taken in $6.5 million in Thursday previews alone at the box office.
- Disney, who owns 20th Century Studios – the studio behind the Alien films – is expecting the film to earn anywhere between $28 million and $38 million in its first weekend of release.
- Some industry insiders believe that number to be on the more conservative side, suggesting that Alien: Romulus could debut at over $40 million.
- The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy,) Archie Renaux Shadow and (Bone,) Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
- The Thursday numbers indicate the final results will be on the higher end of the projections, especially when compared to recent horror films like A Quiet Place: Day One and Nope, which both previewed at more than $6 million and took in more than $40 million each in its first weekend.
- If the projections prove accurate, it will be another in a line of recent successes from the Walt Disney Company following a less than stellar 2023 theatrically.
- This summer alone saw the debuts of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which took in $397 million, and the smash-hit record breaking runs of Pixar’s Inside Out 2 ($1.59 billion) and Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine ($1.03 Billion). Numbers that seem even bigger when compared to tentpole releases like The Marvels take of $206 million and Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Wish at $255 million last year.
- Plus, Disney still has two high profile releases later this year that will certainly pad the over $3 billion in ticket sales the company has already earned worldwide, with the release of Moana 2 on November 27th, and Mufasa: The Lion King on December 20th.
- You can find out what our own Mike Celestino thought of Alien: Romulus in our review, here.
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