Box Office: ‘Prometheus’ Posts Strong $1.5 Million Opening Day in France
Pre-sales in other European countries also appear promising.
While Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s return to Alien territory, doesn’t arrive in the U.S. until June 8, it’s already begun to open abroad to promising results.
The R-rated, 3D sci-fi film opened in France on Wednesday to a one-day total of $1.5 million to notch the second-highest opening day of 2012, behind only The Avengers, which opened to $2.9 million.
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Prometheus ranked higher than the French openings of Men in Black 3 by 20 percent, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows by 45 percent and Hunger Games by 87 percent.
Pre-sales in other European countries also appear strong. In the U.K., where the movie opens Friday, it has rung up about $1.6 million, including about $810,000 at London’s IMAX Southbank theater, the largest pre-sale ever at that location.
In Sweden, pre-sales for Prometheus were running five times ahead of those for the recent MIB3, while in Denmark pre-sales were double those for MIB3.
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