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Alien: Covenant(2017)
Released
2017 · FILM

Alien: Covenant

When a mysterious human broadcast draws the crippled starship Covenant to an uncharted world, new captain Chris Oram must race to secure the signal’s source before deadly alien spores unleash monsters that could annihilate the colonists and doom humanity’s next home.

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

Directed by
Ridley Scott
Written by
Dan O Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Rated
FSK · FSK 16
Runtime
122 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

The crew of the colony ship *Covenant*, en route to a distant planet on the far side of the galaxy, encounters what they initially believe to be an uncharted paradise, only to discover it is a dark and dangerous world.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 272+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Pietro ScaliaShot by Dariusz WolskiScored by Jed KurzelDesigned by Chris Seagers

Box Office

2017 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$240.9M

Budget$97.0M
Worldwide gross$240.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $74.3M — 31% of worldwide · International: $166.6M (69%)

Opening weekend: $36.2M — 49% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $46.8M — 63% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,761 theaters

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Versions & cuts

  • Mainland China Censored Version· 115 min

Also known as

  • Alien: Covenantde
  • Prometheus 2en
  • (Croatian)Vanzemaljac: Saveznik
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United KingdomMay 4, 2017
  • UkraineMay 7, 2017
  • FranceMay 8, 2017
  • South KoreaMay 9, 2017

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