After ten days in theaters, Fede Alvarez’s latest entry in the Xenomorph shuffle, ALIEN: ROMULUS, just crossed the $150 million-dollar mark for international box office take this past weekend. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that attendance has dropped more than 60% to finish second domestically for the weekend of August 24th-25th.
Genre pictures usually take a nose-dive their second week of release, but I gotta admit that I’m a bit surprised, given the rather positive reviews I’ve read from critics and moviegoers alike. General consensus has been that ALIEN: ROMULUS is one of, if not the best, entry in the franchise in decades. Another problem: the juggernaut DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, which has captured close to $600 million so far in the US alone.
We’ll see what happens in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the soonest the film is set to stream is on (HBO) Max starting November 25th.
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