BATTLESHIP, alien-themed scifi, opens too close to PROMETHEUS

I suppose competiting studios deliberately aim to take revenue from one another. But I for one welcome it, because I think juxtaposing Prometheus with any of these popcorn movies will further expose their weaknesses and Prometheus' superiority. Remember also that, Prometheus was scheduled to come out at the end of this month, but the studio decided it was worth holding back until the Summer. So it must be good enough to hold its own.

Looking at the two trailers I don't think there is any danger of potential Prometheus viewers deciding to see Battleship instead. They seem to be totally different kinds of movies. Even if potential Joe Viewer sauntered into the theater with no concrete plan of what to watch I imagine his thought process would go something like this: "Hmmm, I could watch this dark-looking horror thriller by the guy who did Alien and Blade Runner - two of the best sc-fi movies of all time. Or I could watch this other movie based on an idiotic board game by the guy who made Hancock. It has that midichlorian guy from the Phantom Menace in it, too." I'll go out on a limb and make a prediction. Considering that Battleship opens on May 18th and Prometheus opens on June 8th, there should be plenty of time for the mouthbreathers who thought the Transformers movies and GI Joe were masterpieces to get their fix and clear out of the theaters. In fact, I will predict that by the time Prometheus opens everyone who wanted to see Battleship will have already seen it and gotten over their remorse. Battleship might not even be in theaters very long.

I agree, they are a bit close, but similar to what Starbeast said, if people like this one then they'd certainly want to see Prometheus. And uh, kick me in the butt, but, I liked it - I will certainly go to see it. TM5

There is no doubt PROMETHEUS looks like a superior film from the trailers alone. But I would like to contest the rationale of moving it to June where you can have August or even the Holiday season as a launching point. March has WRATH OF TITANS (Fox may not want confusion with another Titan reference there?), May has AVENGERS & BATTLESHIP, all 3 movies, believe it or not, feature a gigantic Kraken-like monster terrorizing humans. Remember box office fatigue?

except battleship will be for children, most of the time flixfags copy off alien and scott, cos it was the best

film looks sht- it must be if rhiannas in it-

It is Very CLEAR that they are not even the same class of movie. That's like compairing Transformers and the original Alien. I enjoyed both movies, (only 1st Transformers movie) but come on, you can't compair them. Yes it can take away some revenue from one another. Prometheus is a big summer film. It is going to have to compete with something, but as always the strong will survive. If Prometheus proves to be the epic blockbuster we all hope it to be it's going to crush any garbage in it's way. Likewise if it sucks it will be pushed by the wayside.

I agree with everything said so far. I think the sad fact is that there are always people who would prefer watching Battleship over Prometheus. And rather many too. Especially as the plot of Prometheus could be a lot 'heavier' and subtler - Harder to comprehend, for some people atleast. Especially if this movie opens with good ratings, it could overshadow Prometheus. Also, the marketing campaign has big effect everywhere, here in Finland + in USA especially. So it's very much about how much FOX decides to burn money for Prometheus (this viral campaign really catches us "nerds" only). But I believe that FOX will launch very large, very loud conventional campaign too.

I wouldn't be worried about it. The dim-witted, popcorn-eating masses will go see Battleship a month before seeing Prometheus. I've found those kinds of people really don't care what they're seeing most of the time; they just go, buy popcorn, sit, and stare at a screen while chewing the cud, like a bunch of livestock. A month is a long time for a movie to steal people away; it would have to be a blockbuster to steal a significant amount of seats away from a new release.

I'll watch it.. for one, just to bleed out some of this sci fi anxiety that I have in my system.