73% second week box office decline

This statistic is misleading, unless you have the first week gross for these other movies. What if Prometheus made twice as much opening week? A larger decline compared to the second week would be inherent.

As a rule, I rarely pay any attention to box office figures but I do hope this movie does well. It is rare for a movie today to provoke thought and with all due respect to Adam Sandler, we need more movies like this.

As of right now the total gross of Prometheus is at $167.2 million worldwide. Which isn't bad but colonial soldier is correct. There has been a HUGE significant drop in box office for Prometheus. Last week after its opening weekend Sunday the box office was at $141.7 million worldwide. Over a period of 6 days since then Prometheus has only been able to gross a total of $25.5 million worldwide which equals out to be the $167.2 million worldwide as of right now. So yes this is correct. I'm hoping for a complete success of this film though. I would really like to see a sequel to Prometheus. Great film!

As most know it will have a bump up internationally when it opens in new territories. I hate that it's gone down so much but I expected it. The Alien fan base turned out en masse to see it opening week. Especially opeing night and weekend. The majority of the people who've been waiting for this film for 30 years have seen it and while some, me included, have seen it multiple times and will see it multiple more times the majority will not. The decline was to be expected. It will be just fine though.

... Prometheus is what I call "a slow burn." Like Alien, it created an undercurrent fan-base that has actually grown since 1979, and continues to attract new fans. Just scanning Tumblr, I see an overwhelming love for the Alien Universe. So take heart, Prometheus will "infect" many a person without their knowledge and populate the fan culture accordingly.

imagine NO SEQUELS and no answers to MILLIONS OF UNRESOLVED PLOTROOTS

@patch...I agree 100%. The problem is it needs to infect people now while it's in theatres in order for Scott to be able to make a sequel. Alien didn't cost much and made an assload of cash resulting in the sequels. This film cost a lot to make and has to make a lotx2 while it's in theatres(like Alien did) in order for it to continue.

Fox clearly has something up their sleeve with the as yet unincorporated footage of the Elder Engineer(s), etc. I just hope that whether their strategy is a theater re-release in October, or just a big push in physical media, that it will work. The more I think about all the Engineer stuff that WAS filmed and not edited into the first theatrical release, the more I wonder... They either have something really clever planned, or they've screwed up royally. I was talking with a friend/house guest who works for Disney (for 20 years) yesterday over an outing through the wine country and dinner about his reactions to the film. He saw Prometheus in a theater and thought it was visually amazing, but he was confused about a lot of the storyline, motivation for the mission, etc. The vast majority of the issues that he revealed to me about his personal experience/reaction to the film (that skewed negatively) had to do with: a) Not understanding due to not having seen all the viral marketing stuff. b) Not understanding due to things that I'm 90% sure were cut in editing. This is a really smart guy, who loves SciFi, and who knows films really really well. I just pray that Fox gets a PROPERLY EDITED version of the film in front of as many eyeballs as possible as soon as possible after all of the international versions of this cut have rolled through the theaters. It doesn't show up in Japan until 24 August! Sheesh!

It's still in 2nd place for this week and it's a weekend for races and Father's Day... Just chill for now.

@ sukkal There is no way Fox is going to release another version of Prometheus in theaters. That type of thing just doesn't happen. What we got is what we got. Perhaps we will one day get a Director's Cut on DVD.

This is really bad news actually, I just read that John Carter's marketing campaign cost 150 million and it was not nearly as impressive as Prometheus's which means we could be looking at marketing costs upwards of 200 million which means it needs 320 million (250 as a conservative estimate) just to break even. As of right now Prometheus has only earned 167 million worldwide which is pretty bad for a movie with this big of a budget and marketing campaign.

Wait a second, doesn't this movie have a budget of 120 million? Isn't that like pretty low compared to most movies that don't even offer amazing or unique visuals?

@sukkal Are you actually serious? You just gave me the biggest reason to pinch myself to make sure I'm not hallucinating that I've ever come across on this site - when I thought I'd seen it all. Are you seriously suggesting that they'd release a, [significantly disfunctional], 'Prometheus Version A' - while already having planned, [as they'd have to have done], to release a, 'Prometheus Version B': [i]less than 6 months later?[/i] Meanwhile, the paying audience wouldn't find anything strange in this at all and will just go right along and pay to see, 'Prometheus Version B', as well?...Maybe 8 times, too? I don't know if I'd call that, "really clever"?....I think it might actually be really [i]not[/i] clever - that's if it would even be strictly rational. Can you imagine what the Press would do with that story? Surely a Studio behaving like that would soon have their collective sanity questioned, swiftly followed by some ugly scenes in their Boardroom and a lot of people leaving to, "pursue other interests"?

I don't think Fox is that dumb. a Prometheus "A" and then release Prometheus "B". You can kiss any sequel goodbye, I think the sequel has already been filmed, or perhaps most of it and that could be what the 10-11-2012 date is all about, now if Fox, Ridley pulled something off like that, they would, uhmmm IDK, .....corner the market in SciFi movies I guess....

If any more sequels are going to be made they will have significantly lower budgets.

[quote]If any more sequels are going to be made they will have significantly lower budgets.[/quote] Dude, that's a premature statement. The film is in the #2 slot on the box office charts as I type this. I predict it has another week or two at that position and then I believe it will have a strong showing in Europe and Japan (at least). There will be a sequel and I'm sure Ridley will get what he wants with regard to budget. The ONLY reason Prometheus is not in the number one slot on the box office charts at this moment is because the film was released against a summer kids film! NO rated R film could compete against that any better than Prometheus is.

@PrivateHudson You do realize that the studio will not care about the circumstances surrounding the film's financial success right? At the end of the day all they will care about is if it generated enough money to merit a sequel and so far it looks like it will not. The studio does not care about the quality of the film or its rating, it only cares if it makes enough money to cover marketing and production costs and turn a profit for them. Paranormal Activity (another rated R film) cost 15,000 dollars to make and generated 107 million at the box office. Saw 3D cost 20 million and made 136 million worldwide. So far Prometheus cost anywhere between 250-320 million to make and market and has only made 167 million at the box office. That is not a good return on the investment.

This is Rid. Scott's fault. He shouldn't have spent so much money. Maybe build less sets? Then it would be a huge success like Hunger Games. Aww man, It's gonna be like John Carter all over again. Sadly people today don't care much about substance and directors have to plan their budget for that.

@laurellestars I do think that the film industry is slowly entering crises mode when it comes to big budget films. The colossal failure of a film like John Carter (which in my opinion was not a bad summer flick) has really scared a lot of studio execs as it seemed to have all the promise of another Pirates of the Caribbean. High risk ventures like new franchises are really not doing as well as sequels, book adaptions, or comic book films (Avengers earned 1.4 billion dollars worldwide, Hunger games earned 649 million dollars worldwide with only a budget of 78 million, and Transformers 3 earned 1.1 billion worldwide). Now we have Prometheus, which is probably as visually stunning as any one of those films but is struggling to hit the 250 million dollar worldwide mark which may further make film studios start to question what franchises or new films they want to invest in. Prometheus may be the final nail in the coffin when it comes to big budget rated R films especially given that cheap, mindless horror franchises like Saw or Paranormal activity provide such a better return on investment (as of right now Prometheus is a high risk, low return investment). We will likely not see another big-budget rated R film in the near future.

The film has already made over 180 million $ worldwide, thus making it more successful than the Alien or AVP movies (if not adjusted for inflation). Of course, if the film doesn't atleast end up with 250- 300 million $, I am not sure if Fox will be satisfied enough to flag off the sequels. Let's hope the new markets like Germany will help boost the film.