Now in its third full week of release, Alien: Romulus continues hanging around the top spot on the box office charts, second only to Deadpool & Wolverine this past weekend. In the wake of a $42 million opening weekend, the Alien franchise’s return to the big screen has now scared up $90.6 million here in the United States, with the worldwide total passing $200 million.
Alien: Romulus is currently on the road to $300 million, in fact, with the Fede Alvarez-directed horror sequel’s worldwide total currently sitting at an impressive $285,312,631.
That makes Alien: Romulus the highest grossing horror movie of the year so far, officially passing the $261.5 million worldwide total of franchise prequel A Quiet Place: Day One.
Behind those two movies on the worldwide charts this year you’ll find Longlegs with $102.6 million, and those are the only three horror movies in 2024 to hit that $100 million milestone.
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.
The highest grossing movie in the franchise to date remains Ridley Scott’s prequel Prometheus with $403.3 million in 2012, while follow-up movie Alien: Covenant ended its run with $240.8 million in 2017. Alien: Romulus is now the franchise’s second highest grossing film.
No word yet on an at-home release date for Alien: Romulus. Stay tuned.
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.”
‘Alien: Romulus’
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