Alien: Covenant has dropped a whopping 80% at the box office Friday-to-Friday on its second weekend. Alien has gone through many iterations, but despite looking dead several times, unlike other long-running franchises there has never been a massive gap between movies – the longest is seven years between the original film and first sequel Aliens as well as Alien: Resurrection and Alien vs. Predator. This is in part because, despite varying widely in quality, they’re dependably profitable.
However, recent entry Covenant is struggling. The film opened strongly worldwide, but its domestic debut was lower than expected, with Ridley Scott’s prequel-sequel bringing in only $36 million. Going into Memorial Day weekend, the film had stiff ...
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