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

@Cybercat Prometheus is the highest grossing film in the Alien franchise when adjusted for inflation (worldwide) and 3rd highest adjusted in the US.

Monk you need to go back to school lol Without all the other factors making alien more popular some of which I mentioned before and ONLY using inflation heres what we get: Alien made worldwide gross of: $203,630,630 put that into an inflation calculator here: [url=http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/]Calculator[/url] And you get : $646,173,841.72 Yes that is more incase you were wondering! And when you add some other factors in you really see how much better alien perfomed : Alien budget 9 million = 28,559,380.17 (28.5 million) under an eighth of prometheus. It was also an 18 (as apposed to Prometheus's R ) so its harder to get dollars it was also an unknown film and maker was not so famous. And people go to the cinema more now and more times (fan boys of course). Etc. etc. So no prometheus has not done as well as alien but like I say money doesn't make a good film anyway but it helps sometimes :P ... I really thought if it was a classic it would hit at least 1 billion but as we can see that did not happen...

On the other hand, there was a lot less ways to obtain films when Alien came out in 1979. An R-rated scifi film making over 400 million dollars today is nothing short of amazing. I'm sorry there is NO way around it. And djamelameziane's opinion doesn't make a film good either. Critics and audiences overwhelmingly liked the movie. Hell, critics even praised it for it's intellectual themes. Ignoring that means you're just another bitter elitist mad that a movie was successful. People like that in regards to Prometheus can be added to the tiny pile of people that are still mad at James Cameron for Aliens. *Moderated by Svanya (Cursing, attacks and verbal abuse towards other members is not tolerated on this forum)

Almost there. $399,005,706 http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/prometheus-2012?q=prometheus @djamelameziane The figures I got were from BoxOfficeMojo.com: Alien - $78,944,891 unadjusted / $252,246,200 adjusted (domestic) Alien - $102,900,000 unadjusted / $328,788,014 adjusted (worldwide using same inflation factor) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=alien.htm Based on these numbers, Prometheus has grossed more. Agreed, however, that Alien made more money relative to its production budget.

I think it's safe to say that Fox got the successful franchise reboot they were looking for, and then some.

OK thanks for the link, Monk. I definitely trust boxofficemojo more than some generic calculator found on the internet that is probably far from accurate. It's pretty awesome to know by far that Prometheus has created the most revenue of any thing ever in the Alien franchise. This film has obviously beaten every single forecast and expectation for how it would perform in the boxoffice. I couldn't be happier those people were proven wrong.

Box office mojos calculations look very dodgy they seem to be only factoring ticket price inflation - not very accurate. That calculator I linked is much more accurate! You can try other ones on the web if you like -but that one is quiet well used! Is this what you saw?! : [url=http://boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?view=main&id=alien.htm&p=.htm]MOJO[/url] That one puts alien as DOUBLE the box office sales of prometheus using it ticket price inflation :O - even worse! I was being conservative compared with that! I am just showing you the picture more clearly - fox were hoping for at least 400 - 500 million MINIMUM so its only just come in at the low end for such a large hyped up franchise. Really if it hit all the marks it would of been closer to 1 Billion unfortunately so in realistic terms its done ok I am afraid :S ... Just to put you in perspective Avatar has made 2782 million :O ! But that was PG-13 so no one expected the same but at least half would of been perfect.

I'm going to go with Boxofficemojo, a source everyone trusts, over a random guy on the internet and a generic online calculator he found with Google. And I'm sorry, I had to laugh out loud when you said Fox was expecting $400-500 million boxoffice for Prometheus. Jesus Christ, Ridley wanted over $200 million, but they only gave him $120-130 million. That assertion is total BS. But you have to be constantly moving the goal-post if you want to be a hater of this movie I guess. Too bad you lost the long game. Every independent projection of how this movie would perform has been off since the opening weekend. It's just a fact. It's out-performed expectations and is making Fox a pile of money. With the assured massive haul from home video, this will probably be one of Fox's biggest success stories of 2012. Expect studio support for multiple sequels with gusto.

Omg kitten I AM talking about box office mojo now - I am using Your figures LOL! Go back to YOUR link and look again LOL! Scroll down to the part in the middle - were it says: Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation whats at number one? ALIEN! LOL! Notice how promethues is behind Aliens as well lol. Then take the fact that all this site does is take the price of a cinema ticket in that year and calculates the difference to today and even publishes different figures on its own site! See here: [url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alien.htm]http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alien.htm[/url] it a very shabby site sorry but I get the same figures in almost any inflation calculator wich use far more complex formulae such as average wages living costs etc. etc. not hard to see whats closer lol ! Another site with some numbers: [url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Alien.php]http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Alien.php[/url] Also take the fact that they did not announce the sequel till quiet late in the total gross we have today - they were worried! And many more factors like how cheap and fast it is to make a film global compaired with 1979 (get such massive global sales) - no youtube etc... and many more factors of which I am too tired to teach you about.... And no I am not a hater it was a good film just not amazing...and if you want to put your fingers in your ears and sing la la la its fine most lovers do its the only way to love this film and what its done after all :D ! Just saw this for a laugh: (yet another example of were prometheus ranks: [url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mib3.htm]http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mib3.htm[/url] have fun!

I'm using the numbers on the Mojo page, DJHaterade. The list in which Alien is on top is for US adjusted. If it had a world adjusted list, Prometheus would be on top just like it is for the unadjusted list. Take Mojo's inflation rate and apply it to the difference between Alien's worldwide and US unadjusted rates and the additional revenue is not enough to make up the difference with Prometheus's current worldwide haul. Prometheus surpassed that some time ago. So sorry, nice try. I still trust boxofficemojo's inflation rates over the anti-fanboi and his random Google calculator. They deal with movie data on a daily basis. You only deal with it when you are bitter about a film's success and feel the need to whine about it months after you saw it because you have too much free time. And yes, Fox was so worried that they are now swimming in the profit from Prometheus like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin. My suggestion, move on with your life. By the time Fox stops making Prometheus sequels, you'll be able to tell your grandchildren about how granddad's still fighting the good fight on the internet about the Milburn/Hammerpede scene while they look at you like the deranged nut you are.

Whoa ok looks like you didn't read my post then replied to it with random comments - never mind - some people cant be taught. :(

$402,650,038 http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/prometheus-2012

Great news, no need to split hairs the film has done well, especially for an R rated sci fi movie that so many did their best to sink on the Internet. It's connection to Alien may or may not be a factor, Alien and it's sequels are decades old, with little pop culture history to drive it ( relative to Batman, for example, or any PG13 superhero ) so Prometheus stands on its own. Does its sales make it good? Of course not. What makes it good and makes this information worthy of note is how unusual, how singular it was. And those who loved it, like me, are delighted! Sorry!

@cybercat: lol! @major noob: well said. agreed. (PS: gotta get back to you concerning your writings! suffices to say...excellent, sir!