Nearing US 100 million for box office

Well most fanboys will drink up the poo juice that is the Prometheus franchise so I never doubted a sequel/sequels.

Th4 movie broke even the first weekend (Foreign & US combined) when it brought in $141,500 mil. ($90 mil foreign + $51.5 mil US). It only cost $130 mil. so what you're saying is US is near $100 mil. + foreign is probably around $150 mil. $250 mil on a $130 budget? This movie has made close to twice what it cost to make it. [i]Well most fanboys will drink up the poo juice that is the Prometheus franchise so I never doubted a sequel/sequels.[/i] Does "poo juice" come in a variety of flavors? ; )

Like I said in other posts for a movie to make a profit; it has to make double its budget in sales because half of the ticket sales goes to the movie chains. That is why John Carter and Battleship are considered flops. They cost over $200 million US but each made over 300 million worldwide. [url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/05/how-did-battleship-escape-the-john-carter-flop-furor-.html]Article[/url]

Although this film's visuals were amongst its most appealing features, what keeps me interested in it is that it gives you something (well, many things in my opinion) to think about. This is why I'd rate it quite far above Alien Resurrection. I won't bother going into what I dislike about that one, but ultimately, my concern with it ends along with the movie. Not so with Prometheus.

Yes, there's more than just visuals keeping people interested in this film. The religious overtones and questions about the origins of humanity being a few. Plus, pretty much EVERYONE is talking about it. Whether you love it or hate it it seems nobody can stop talking about it. Both good and bad talk is a plus and puts asses in seats and I can't remember a film in recent years striking up this much conversation whether it be between fans like us here or people who don't know much if anything about Alien. There's no such thing as bad pub and this film is getting a lot of good and bad. That's what you want in a film. A film can be great and all but if nobody's talking about it than nobody gets interested to go see it.

I think prometheus will do ok based on repeat business, I think enough people leave thinking "wait but what about plot point X... if i could just see it again I bet I could notice something that would help me resolve that" Where as many other movies you leave feeling maybe a bit more satisfied about the plot, with prometheus I left thinking "I have to see that again so I can appreciate what's actually happened" So while it may never be the blockbuster i'm sure fox hoped it'd be (well block buster for an R rating) I think that it will have less drop off % than some other movies that don't get repeat viewings