Box office nearing production costs?

Of course are good news ... Prometheus is already at 230 mil worldwide and there are missing some important countries ( japan , italy , mexico , china ) plus it will have another couple of good weekends in USA and Worldwide. Total costs of Prometheus ( production + promos ) were set at 180 mil ( 130 of production costs ) . If it will reach something around 300 mil a sequel is almost assured

And in germany the movie comes to The cinema very late, in august. i went to luxembourg and watched it in original english version. Will watch it again with local friends.

I am not happy. John carter made more monies than this movie in 2 weeks? :/ I must say people like emo movies than mind bending sci-fi. It already went out of cinema from my country in just 3 weeks. not a good people for scifi here. Ironically pirnha 3DD is here for more than 3 weeks. Oh lord take me :(

I'm not worried at all. Even in Poland (where I come from) Prometheus hasn't been played yet. You have to also remember that Prometheus is R-rated movie. And of course we have to wait till October when extended cut will be released. Money will come!

Release dates for Prometheus: Georgia 28 June Poland 20 July Austria 8 August Germany 9 August Switzerland 9 August (German speaking region) Spain 10 August Japan 24 August Italy 19 October Switzerland 19 October (Italian speaking region)

I am the poster that you are referring to that is posting the box office mojo statistics but I am far from a hater. Based on my viewing of the movie; I was highly disappointed and what confirms that my opinion is valid is that millions of other viewers that are also Alien fans felt the same. Rotten Tomatoes lists movies that are reviewed subpar and made a profit. Prometheus has a good rating. What is driving this movie is weak competition these last couple of weeks. When Spiderman reboot and the Dark Knight returns hits the theater; then Prometheus box office receipts should subside. I worked in film; studied it in college; attempted to write screenplays. When it comes to plot and what the Alien series is about; Lindelof totally destroyed the series. The more far away it is from Alien (but sadly it is linked); the better. Some more good news [url=http://www.gossipcenter.com/movies/box-office-brave-easily-beats-out-competition-683517]Good news from the hater[/url]

@colonial soldier What's the point of statistics? Who even cares about rotten tomatoes. I visited that site like twice in my whole life. If you were really disappointed, and if you are really such a big Alien fan as you say, then you know that one movie, made many years after any of the Alien films, can not "destroy the series" Imagine you are a parent, perhaps you even are. You have a son. He's picture perfect in terms of behaviour, academical achievement, moral, etc. Then you have a second son, and he is the complete opposite. A real brat, misbehaving, selfish, basically since he was very young nobody liked him, even you can't really say you like him, you are disappointed in him, but you love him because you are his father. This second son represents Prometheus for you. (I know you don't love prometheus, but this is just to clarify my analogy) If you were a parent in this situation, would you like your first picture perfect son less, just because the second one came out not so great? Would you say your first son was ruined because of him? Of course not. He is older. An older brother is not influenced by his younger brother, more likely the other way around. You can criticize Prometheus all you want. But just because you studied film and wrote some screenplays, doesn't mean you can give any more legitimate criticism on a movie than somebody else. It also doesn't mean that you know "what the alien series is all about", which by the way is impossible to define, seeing as how completely different ever Alien movie has been from its predecessor thus far. Lindelof and Spaiths did the same thing you did, they studied film, wrote other screenplays before this one, which a lot of people liked, just like a lot of people like the story of Prometheus. Their vision differs from yours. Not because they write screenplays for a living and make money off of it, but because their opinion of what makes a good story for a prequel to Alien is different than yours. I am not saying Prometheus is perfect, but the things I didn't like about it do not concern the plot. They concern the pacing and the characters moreover. I have read many discussions on this forum, and I have yet to find a real plot-hole that bothers me.