Covenant Now: $181,7 Million

Well its a bit of a mess really, and the whole Fanbase has a lot of different opinions and expectations its just hard to please them all.  With AC we had..

*Prometheus Fans who are disappointed in the lack of answers and they was looking forwards to those and felt that AC just took the Hicks/Newt route with the Engineers and Dr Shaw

*Alien Fans who would be disappointed this movie did not bring back what made ALIEN  Great there was no real Tense Horror Elements, it did not Scare the %£^£$ out of people and really only the Neomorph Back Burster Scene came close to giving what Alien had.

*Aliens Fans who thought we would see more Xenomorphs and Action and Ultimately the Action was not even on the same level as Alien Resurrection.

*Had Aliens Fans upset at the lack of Xenomorph and how the Origins are explained... SO What there is no Queen! etc

*Had Alien Fans upset also at how the Xenomorph Origins seem to be handled as well as the Gestation/Growth Rates.

*Had Prometheus Fans upset too about the Origins, as they would have wanted to see more on the Engineers role in all this.

RS/FOX Toned down the Engineers and Shaw, and for Prometheus fans this was a let down, for General Fans maybe some felt this was a Good Direction and for some they may even had wondered why  they needed to touch upon Prometheus and be about David the Robot.

RS/FOX Felt bringing in the ALIEN and Eggs, Face Huggers etc would please Fans... but they way it was handled had disappointed some Prometheus, Alien and Aliens fans and ULTIMATELY did not do the Trick.

so it leaves FOX to wonder now...

*Do we change the Curve-ball about David creating the Eggs to he recreated it, and thus his Eggs dont end up in Alien... but then surely some fans would want other answers to the Space Jockey Event and how do they then do this? surely they cant keep it a Mystery now.

*Do we Cover the Engineers so that we can gauge what their purpose is and what Paradise was and LV-223 etc etc.. but then do they worry other Franchise Fans want to know less about these beings and this would put them off the Franchise.

*Do we go the Aliens Route and so turn the Covenant into a Hadleys Hope in Space with numerous Xenomorphs and maybe even a Queen. But i dont think this is what RS would want and it would only appease  40-50% of the Fanbase

ULTIMATELY...

They have a tricky situation and have to Gauge which route would please the most fans... but Ultimately also which would make the most $$$$

Sadly if the General Public are more in Tune with ALIENS and a majority of the Fanbase like Aliens and have no Problems with the Queen route and also if they are not Prometheus Fans.

Then i think FOX will simply be FORCED to Bring Ripley into the Franchise and Hope this works.. and if this does not then the FRANCHISE will be DEAD.

As far as Movies goes, as FOX just wont risk it again..

Well Prometheus did 30 million in China in 2012.  I know it's not listed on Box office mojo, but if you do a little googling you can find it.  Also Japan did just over 20 million, so even if you go worse case which I think and half the total for both.  That's still an additional 25 million.  Based on the increase in the Asia Markets however it may do equal or better.  However the way I heard the hacked up the China cut of the film it might not do so well.

BigDave "I hope that the only AWAKENING we are in for is FOX/RS wake up and learn from their mistakes."

Exactly. A sequel in the line of Covenant with more Fassbender as a protagonist will only sink the franchise further.

@joylitt I'm gonna have to agree with you on that last sentence. I love Fassbender, but I'm tired of the whole "AI is God" thing...

Starlogger: OK but then there is the question what kind of enemy that you replace Fassbender with or if the enemies shall be Fassbender and something else. I don't claim to have a very thought out answer about this.

For it to make $100 million in profit it would have to do somewhere between $294-342 million worldwide. At its current $181 million worldwide, that is a long haul. I doubt China will make up that much.

Like BigDave said,"...it did not Scare the %£^£$ out of people...".  Ridley Scott said in an interview about Covenant, "This movie is going to scare the $*!# out of people."  Guess what!  It didn't.  Not even close.  I was seriously let down based off of how Ridley Scott advertised the movie!  Look!  I like the Alien franchise, but I also expect to feel scared and be caught in the mystery that is the Alien universe.  Prometheus had scarier parts than Alien: Covenant!  The only reason I say Alien: Covenant is scarier is because the whole movie almost always maintains a type of suspense.  Prometheus wasn't as exciting throughout the movie as Covenant, but I still enjoyed the slower parts because the movie had amazing visuals and a great mysterious story.  There were some other things BigDave said about what people didn't like about Covenant that I fall in too, like Points #1 & #6.