Alien: Covenant (2017)

Neki said:

There has been a theory floating about regarding the origin of the Facehugger that I really like

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Shaw most probably had been killed by David and he dissected her body for experimentation to perfect his Alien creation. It had been suggested from the fleeting shot of her body that he removed her spine to make the Facehugger's tail; her fingers for the claws in which to attached itself to the host's face; her ovaries and fellopian tubes to produce and transfer the alien eggs and her vagina as the mouth/opening that it uses to pump the egg into the host when it had attached itself.

I can certainly see the similarities and reinforced everyone's thinking that the Facehugger always had the appearance of a cunt.

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Jive Turkey said:

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this seems kinda silly. The idea of him "building" a facehugger, Frankenstein style... that makes no sense. How would a creature mechanically put together ever give rise to an organism that resembled that mish-mash??? It seems far more likely that David's experiments were of the genetic and selective breeding variety

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the AVP stuff was never canon for the alien universe i dont think, maybe for predator

I found this movie to be sort of fun, but ultimately a let down.

It's one of those ones that demands that you turn your brain off. If you can manage to successfully do so, you might very well enjoy this flick. If you are awake during it, I expect boredom will ensue.

Try to go to this drugged up in some way. That should help.

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137M so far with 97m production cost. Typically the movie gets ~80-90% the first week from ticket sales then it drops considerably the 2nd week down to the 60-70% range.
So the movie has made back the production and paying off marketing at this point and by time it has run the screens and pulling in Blu-Ray/Prem fees should turn a profit although in movieland making 10-20 million after costs is not considered success for some fucked up reason. Still considering the massive fails of King Arthur and Snatched which will both take losses it looks good for another possible movie without waiting 20 years.

Fate of the Furious is the crazy one this month. Currently 11th all time and looks to easily overtake Frozen and maybe even overtake Avengers-Ultron to end up 6-8th. GotG2 is currently 82nd.

Necrath Evilcraft said:

the AVP stuff was never canon for the alien universe i dont think, maybe for predator

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Doesn't the predator ship in predator 2 have an alien skull in it?

Rengak said:

Doesn't the predator ship in predator 2 have an alien skull in it?

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It's a nearly identical shape, that's for sure. But, the bone structure doesn't seem like it would be like that on a Xeno. Eye sockets throw me, I guess.

Burren said:

It's a nearly identical shape, that's for sure. But, the bone structure doesn't seem like it would be like that on a Xeno. Eye sockets throw me, I guess.

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It could also be some other Alien hybrid. Since the Aliens change a bit species to species.

Even if that is Xenomorph skull it doesnt make AVP canon for the alien side.

Didn't infer it was. Was just saying about the skull.

Pretty sure nothing is canon to Aliens outside of the core movies. Even the old Dark Horse comics aren't canon.

Nonsense! Next you'll try telling me that the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic book wasn't canon either.

Olebass said:

137M so far with 97m production cost. Typically the movie gets ~80-90% the first week from ticket sales then it drops considerably the 2nd week down to the 60-70% range.
So the movie has made back the production and paying off marketing at this point and by time it has run the screens and pulling in Blu-Ray/Prem fees should turn a profit although in movieland making 10-20 million after costs is not considered success for some fucked up reason. Still considering the massive fails of King Arthur and Snatched which will both take losses it looks good for another possible movie without waiting 20 years.

Fate of the Furious is the crazy one this month. Currently 11th all time and looks to easily overtake Frozen and maybe even overtake Avengers-Ultron to end up 6-8th. GotG2 is currently 82nd.

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Not sure where you are getting your numbers but they are way off.
Alien: Covenant (2017) - Box Office Mojo

Alien Prometheus Boogaloo is $45m domestic, $86m foreign for $137m WORLDWIDE. They get under 50% from foreign receipts, and much less in some markets (25% in china usually for example). So yeah, the movie is far from profitable. Usually for a movie with a $50m+ budget it has to make around 3x of the production budget in worldwide receipts to be considered "Hollywood profitable", which is all kinda bullshit anyways since they claim insane expenses as "marketing" - like they'll charge $10m for "distribution fees", which usually really costs them like $50k but they get to charge insane fees against the movie to reduce any possibility of having to pay the producers, actors, etc profit participation monies.

still once all is added up the movie should be ok, enough at least to greenlight any more alien shit Sir Ridley Scott wants to do

spronk said:

Not sure where you are getting your numbers but they are way off.
Alien: Covenant (2017) - Box Office Mojo

Alien Prometheus Boogaloo is $45m domestic, $86m foreign for $137m WORLDWIDE. They get under 50% from foreign receipts, and much less in some markets (25% in china usually for example). So yeah, the movie is far from profitable. Usually for a movie with a $50m+ budget it has to make around 3x of the production budget in worldwide receipts to be considered "Hollywood profitable", which is all kinda bullshit anyways since they claim insane expenses as "marketing" - like they'll charge $10m for "distribution fees", which usually really costs them like $50k but they get to charge insane fees against the movie to reduce any possibility of having to pay the producers, actors, etc profit participation monies.

still once all is added up the movie should be ok, enough at least to greenlight any more alien shit Sir Ridley Scott wants to do

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The first week often sees 87% to the movie, 2nd week it falls dramatically and 3rd week its closer to 50/50. If APB only saw 70% which would be freakish low contract then it would still pay for the movie at this point counting todays sales. We had this same damn discussion a year ago on some thread and while no one had an exact answer there was articles and reports and shit posted that defined it. Every studio and contract is different.
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Some contract to take 100% the first week, some opt to take 80% for 3 weeks then the foreign varies massively by country but 60%+ is a safe bet the first week.

This movie will see another 100 million or so. of which it'll get 40-50 million due to length on screens. That will finish covering marketing with ease.

There's just something about their brand of snarky assholeness that I find so charming.