Romulus Gives Birth to a Grand Opening Weekend

The numbers are in, too Alien: Romulus it starts with a big scare.

By deadline, the sci-fi horror flick has exceeded box office predictions and opened with $108.2 million worldwide, at the time of writing. Its foreign imports reached $66.7 million, and its outperformance can be attributed to China. There, it debuted at $25.7 million, making it the second best opening for a Hollywood film this year. Domestically, it made $41.5 million, double the expected range of $20 million. It also makes for the best second opening of all Alien franchise (after 2012 Prometheus, says the Hollywood Reporter), and it’s the movie that finally knocks Deadpool and Wolverine it comes out of its original place. Not that it matters, as the studio has already done a lot of good in theaters this summer with these two movies and Inside Out 2.

Romulus It was originally made for Hulu before Disney decided to pull it out of theaters altogether, and that gamble clearly paid off. Some people love them Alien, and it helps that it’s been long enough since then Alien: Covenant went to theaters in 2017 so people had enough time to miss the series. (Ahead of the new movie, I’ve seen quite a few people on social media rewatch previous movies to get ready for this one.) Add in the fact that its trailers have been attached to almost every major movie in the past few months and it’s solid. by word of mouth, and it’s no surprise that the film went beyond initial expectations.

With two weeks left in August, Romulus it has some competition for some kind of long-term renewal of Crow, Strange Lover, again Click twice next week on August 23. On August 30, there is an AI tech thriller He was afraid starring John Cho and Katherine Waterson, and starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne A sling.