
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.