The Alien franchise is back on the big screen for the first time in seven years with director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which is notably the very first Alien movie to be released under the Disney umbrella. Most fans and critics agree that Alvarez has done another horror franchise proud with Romulus, which is currently 82% Fresh over on Rotten Tomatoes.
But how did the film fare at the box office in its opening weekend? Here in the United States, Alien: Romulus debuted in the #1 spot with $41.5 million, giving the film the second highest U.S. opening weekend for a horror movie this year behind A Quiet Place: Day One.
Worldwide, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s original horror classic Alien opened with $108.2 million.
After just a few days, Alien: Romulus is already the second highest grossing horror movie of 2024, A Quiet Place: Day One currently sitting in the top spot with $261 million worldwide.
For the sake of comparison, Ridley Scott’s prequel Prometheus opened to $51 million at the domestic box office back in 2012, while follow-up movie Alien: Romulus (2017) had a $36.1 million domestic opening weekend. Alien: Romulus is already off to a better start than Covenant, which ended its own worldwide box office run with $240.8 million back in 2017.
The production budget for Alien: Romulus was a reported $80 million, relatively low for a franchise movie of this size and scale, so it should have no problem turning a profit.
In Alien: Romulus, “While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.
Fede Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead). Ridley Scott is on board as producer for the film, the first movie in the franchise to be released by Disney.
Alien: Romulus is based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
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