The box office for Alien: Romulus has reached a significant milestone. The ninth installment in the Alien franchise, the movie is set between the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron stranger, Following a group of space colonists exploring an abandoned space station with a dark secret hidden. Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Isabela Merced and Spike Fearn are part of the main cast, with Do not breathes directed by Fede Álvarez. After its release, Alien: RomulusBox office has been performing exceptionally well, even Opening with the franchise’s second-best domestic debut weekend with $42 millionjust behind Prometheus.
According to Collider, Alien: Romulus has now moved $74.3 million in 11 days of its theatrical run, Beating Alien: Covenants total domestic run of $74.2. During its initial release, Ridley Scott’s 2017 prequel opened at number one at the box office with a domestic haul of $36.2 million. however, The film fell precipitously in its second weekend with a 70.9% drop and a $10.5 million haul.
The box office success for Alien: Romulus almost never happened
The movie was initially planned to be released on Hulu.
While Romulus‘ Critical and commercial success is an excellent sign of the future of the Alien Franchise, the theatrical achievements of the movie almost did not happen. Similar to 2022’s preyWhen the film was announced, Romulus was initially developed as a direct-to-streaming project for Disney’s Hulu. This was initially part of the plan under former Disney CEO Bob Chapek to aggressively produce content for his streaming services across all of the Walt Disney Company’s divisions.
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When Bob Iger returned as Disney CEO, plans for the company’s streaming efforts changed. According to Álvarez while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, The movie’s release strategy was changed to a theatrical approach shortly before production began. Because of this, Alien: Romulus was filmed knowing it was made for the big screen instead of being altered from streaming to theatrical release after production wrapped.
With a budget of $80 million, the film was a massive commercial success in cinemas, with a global collection of $226.8 million. It also gave Disney another profitable blockbuster this summer, yet Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out 2And Deadpool & WolverineWith the Pixar-animated sequel still being the year’s highest-grossing movie. Alien: Romulus‘ Success also bodes well for the theatrical-exclusive release of BadlandsThe latest installment in the Predator Franchise, which recently began filming, with the aim of bringing back the popular franchise to cinemas as Álvarez did this summer.
Source: Collider