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Prometheus' revenue better than X-Men's and Star Trek's

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Ingwar

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 4:37 PM
Considering budget and rating of those three movies, I have to say that I'm really surprise that Prometheus made more money than J.J. Abrams' Star Trek and more that X-Men: First Class. Star Trek Rating: PG-13 Budget: $150 million Box office: $385,494,555 X-Men: First Class Rating: PG-13 Budget: $140-160 million Box office: $353,624,124 Prometheus: Rating: R Budget: $130 million Box office: $386.6 million (so far)
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianSep-17-2012 4:50 PM
People really love Ridley Scott (myself Included). Never underestimate the power a director has in bringing in an audience.

ZetaReticuli

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 5:01 PM
Good news and may it grow.

Ingwar

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 5:02 PM
Apart of few exceptions I like/love his movies as well. Cannot wait to see The Counselor (I love Cormac McCarthy's novels) and next Blade Runner!

Svanya

AdminPraetorianSep-17-2012 5:32 PM
@Ingwar; well good news for you, Chris is setting up the Blade Runner 2 site and I will be running it. It should be up and running in a week or so. :)

keep-itreal

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 5:36 PM
Prometheus is also [b]rated-R[/b] too.

Necronom 4

MemberNeomorphSep-17-2012 5:41 PM
@Svanya, i'm sure you will do a great job! and i can't wait! :-) Imo, i think Prometheus as done so well because of one thing in particular,, Alien! I really don't think it would of done as well if it hadn't have been promoted as the Alien prequel (sort of) lol. The amazing trailer also played a huge part in its success.

The poster was good though!

 

Patient Leech

MemberFacehuggerSep-17-2012 6:21 PM
Yeah, they are very impressive numbers. [i]Alien[/i] has had 30+ years to gather a rather large following. And while the sequels are entertaining, they never quite lived up to the original (imo). So to have the man who started it all return to the series I think drew in a lot of people. From the very first second that I learned that Ridley was working on Prometheus, my radar (penis) has been pointed high... lulz And yes, as necronom pointed out, the trailer was freakin' epic, so that no doubt gathered a few more followers. I however did my best to [i]avoid[/i] the trailers when they were being shown everywhere because I already knew I wanted to see it and didn't want to spoil anything. One of the wisest decisions I've ever made!! Hopefully I'll be able to do the same for P2 and P3..

Shane

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 6:46 PM
But look at the USA dollar amount. Prometheus did amazingly well on the international market, but didn't even make back it's money stateside [before DVD sales]. Star Trek ruled the US and did little internationally. Which is pretty much as a lot of people around here said, we all figured Prometheus would do OK in the USA and do amazingly well worldwide. (Me being Canadian our box office counts for nothing as our population is to fucking small) Prometheus: Domestic: $126,464,904 32.7% + Foreign: $260,200,000 67.3% = Worldwide: $386,664,904 Domestic Star Trek: Domestic: $257,730,019 66.8% + Foreign: $127,950,427 33.2% = Worldwide: $385,680,446 X-Men First Class: Domestic: $146,408,305 41.4% + Foreign: $207,215,819 58.6% = Worldwide: $353,624,124 Funny, the percent for Prometheus and Star Trek in the foreign market are almost reversed. American's sure love their Star Trek (that said it was a fun movie).

Shane

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 6:59 PM
The EU numbers of Star Trek vs Prometheus are really interesting. The UK is very close but the rest gets further apart as it goes. It kinda shows what sort of sci-fi appeals to what sort of markets more then other. I figure it is the EU prefers a dark tone of sci-fi [I love a lot of EU, esp french sci-fi and it typically is worlds darker then it's north american equal].

Necronom 4

MemberNeomorphSep-17-2012 7:09 PM
@Shane. Spot on! We like our sci fi very dark! and i wish the population here was small! Less idiots!

The poster was good though!

 

NCC 1701

Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 7:41 PM
[img]http://i1051.photobucket.com/albums/s435/rob9401/hqdefault.jpg[/img] BOO HOO ,,,

Engineering

MemberOvomorphSep-17-2012 7:42 PM
Very nice news. I enjoyed both of those films, especially X-Men FC. I don't think I have to point out my love for Scott's work at this point. But yeah, having him come back to not only the Alien franchise he started but the genre he redefined and changed 30 years ago was a big draw. I think the film would have done a lot better critically if it had nothing to do with the Alien franchise though. I think expectations of a straight-up-sci-fi-horror film had a lot of the audience confused and angry. But being attached to Alien definitely brought in the dough.
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