$400M Before the DVD release... come on Prometheus...!

yeah 391 so far..very impressive....it 's done better than the star trek reboot...I think it's save to say that Prometheus is a financial success...think it will end just over or under 400 mil....and i think it will at last beat Snow-white....

Prometheus will continue to grow!

@ cerulean blue...nice x files reference! (?) prometheus is too grand to be held down by the haters. go baby go!

10 11 12 is gonna be thre TOTAL 02:30:00 relaunch OR the total "it was all david's dream here's the real fake report to yutani" RELAUNCH come on, how DEPRESSED am I gonna be on 11 11 12? ;)

I prefer to think of myself not as a hater, but rather as a dis-satisfied customer, promised one thing by the packaging and the guy that sold it to me, only to find a polished turd in the box when I opened it............

Yer you cant polish a turd as they say but hmm I thought star trek was way better than prometheus and in profit is is still ahead $50 less to make or so. But to be honest when you look at the list of highest grossing films of all time 90 percent of them are so awful its unbelievable - but they are pretty much all for kids and male teens - which kinda run the industry of course! I think avengers just moved up to 3rd place now - my god :O ! I think though prometheus was riding on the sucess of alien it may not have such a following for part 2 but may do just because everyone is so pissed off not knowing what its actually about! Anyway I want it to do well - I need to see all three parts - I would be very sad if it were just that one part least now we can really see if the whole thing makes up a better story in the end or possibly that really was as bad as some people thought and its not going to get better :S !

[u]Paul[/u]: Thanks for the update on Prometheus' global box office take. I have to admit that even I am surprised to see the film make almost $400 million. Back before the film was released in Germany I had guessed that it would eventually bring in at least $325M and perhaps closer to $350M in ticket sales. Man, did the UK love the film. It's going to be interesting to see what the numbers are like when all is said and done. Other members have rightly pointed out that there is all kind of factors to consider when looking at the box office numbers (e.g. how long has the film been in theaters in a given country and what the rvenue split is between the studio and the theaters at any given time). Still, almost $400M in ticket sales is not shabby for a thematically dark and somehwat somber R rated genre film that was released during the summertime.

...i loved Prometheus...i love it for all it's weird little flaws and the fact that it is so open for interpretation....and i know that's what Scott wanted...to ask these big open questions...but i can understand the frustration and how a movie like that can piss of people...but their is gonna be sequels...so just wait... And calling prometheus a turd....NO! But true their is a lot of shitty movies on the all time chart and i did not even think that the avengers was that great (rented it earlier this week)....i enjoyed it...but the minute it ended it was just over and I have no desire to ever watch it again....and i have not thought of it once since those credits started rolling...funny enough I also watched "Young Adult" and "Dark Shadows" the same day....I thought both movies was superior to the avengers...so go ahead and stone me to death....but thats just my opinion....

Heh no for me it wasn't a turd it was a weird mixture of greatness and awfulness kind of a turd with golden nuggets in it heh :P ....really would like o see a DC it might even end up being 80 percent nuggets then :D :P ...

I think my problem with super hero movies in general is that they all have the exact same vibe....and that vibe is a little lame....the only super hero movie i have fully enjoyed was Ang Lee's "Hulk"....just cause he attempted to give it that nice little arty feel...it had it's problems as well...some scenes was way too darkly lit and the ending was a bit underwhelming....but overall it made more of an impression on me than any of the marvel movies i have seen lately... Prometheus ...a turd with golden nuggets....yeah ....well thats sounding better already.. i am loving what I have heard and seen of the deleted scenes so far... I will never understand quite why they were deleted in the first place to be honest...and star trek was great...but it was no Prometheus....it was just good fun...a little more intelligent than i anticipated....so definitely better than those marvel films i mentioned earlier...

Prometheus wasn't a turd. It was a very good film, and it's boxoffice haul is reflecting that.

Yer loved hulk and spider man 2 pretty much the only 2 superhero films I liked...and like I said cat money doesn't really reflect a great film...to be honest before it all came out I thought it would make at least a billion but its not even half way so for me that says something...

Now at $398.1 million: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=prometheus.htm Safe to say that $400 million is in the bag before the DVD/Blu-ray release.

Prometheus was a truly great movie. Finally a thought-provoking and dark sci fi of sometimes mythical grandeur. I never thought it would be a box-office smash hit so I'm very surprised and delighted it's going to reach the $400 million mark. Prometheus 2 here we come :)

...$398 million this morning. Rock 'n' roll man... oh, the sequel is going to be a [b]doozy[/b] :-)

$200 million PROFIT for what amounts to a post-Communist piece of Solaris-ism or Battleship Potemkin-ism i.e. surrealist visuals clothing an otherwise never explained (or ESOTERIC i.e. City of London's [i]Olympic hammerpede[/i]) political knicker showage. What bridge-building was Prometheus REALLY blood-sacrifice-celebrating? Both Prometheus and the ZION Olympics stole the fire from the gods, thematically, in the same month, but FOR THE SAME PURPOSE? Isn't the JUGGERNAUT one of the five rings of the Olympic symbol; five silos' worth of them? Now, we understand why Prometheus HAD TO come out in 2012, prior to Olympics.

....@ FreePlanet Uh... what you on about?... ;) It's weird these days ....you never know what's gonna make money and what will come out an utter flop at the box office....It's great when a movie gets good reviews....but then often those movies flop big time at the box-office and American audiences would rather watch something like Madea than Dredd 3D...that's just sad....!!! I can understand how Disney and pixar movies do well...3D works very well with animations and if junior wants to go see it...well mommy and daddy can't exactly allow a 9 year old to go to the movies by himself... so half the family gets dragged along....the same with superhero movies and the transformers crap...kids love them....kids rule the box-office....I was expecting ParaNorman to do a little better tho....strange...( it did not quite fail...but still)....it must be nerve wrecking to be a director and watch your movie fail at the BO... As for Prometheus.....GO ...GO...GO!!!!...it will definitely surpass 400 mil now...no doubts anymore....!!

Again, the movie was very good. Here's two strikes against the film's 10s of internet detractors: The critics loved it, and especially the top critics. Ebert and Roeper both independently gave it the highest ratings possible. The audience also loved it or else it wouldn't have made 400 million, dwarfing anything Alien related in an extremely long time. Heck, it may even be the most profitable Alien film even after you adjust for inflation. It's also the first R-rated science fiction film to have this level of success in the modern era. A hand full of desperate people were trying to attack this movie acting like it would only gross under 200 million right after it came out. They lost big time. They'll have to get over the fact that the Space Jockey wasn't a giant elephant man, they didn't like the ending to Lost, and whatever other nonsense has their panties in a bunch. History is written. The film is a critically successful blockbuster, and you can't do anything about it but continue to mope. Me, frankly, I'll be looking forward to the sequel that's obviously going to get a good budget and studio support along with all the other fruits of this film's success. *Moderated by Svanya (Cursing, attacks and verbal abuse towards other members is not tolerated on this forum)

It warms my heart to see that there's a small, ragtag band of "Prometheus" fans who are still celebrating the film and its success. The other day I picked up my 4 day NY Comic Con pass. This will be my first trip to Comic Con and I splurged on the 4 day pass so that I could be there on the first day of the convention, which is 10.11.12. Who knows what that day will bring but I'm excited at the idea of roaming the halls of the convention center looking for a "Prometheus" related event or booth. I also can't wait to get my Blu Ray copy of the movie. I've intentionally avoided watching any of the deleted scenes that have been leaked online. I'm waiting for the Blu Ray so that I can spend an afternoon going through the extras.

Good luck with comic-con NY fingers crossed it happens there and its something worth talking about! lol the cat banging on about profit after we established it has nothing to do with good films siigh...and no its not as good as alien if you adjust for inflation anyway and even after that you can add on the facts that it was an 18 and not R and that people spend more on going to the cinema now etc. etc....but its not really that relevant...I think we will know more about how much people loved these movies after 3 parts - I hope they get better I really do !