<P> Alien: Covenant grossed $74.3 million in the United States and Canada and $164.6 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $238.8 million, against a production budget of $97 million . </P> <P> In North America, the film was released alongside Everything, Everything and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, and was projected to gross around $40 million from 3,760 theaters during its opening weekend . It made $4.3 million from Thursday night previews at about 3,000 theaters, and $15.4 million overall on its first day, which was below the $21.5 million Friday of Prometheus five years prior . It went on to open to $36.2 million, down 34% from Prometheus' debut, but still finishing first at the box office, as the second highest debut of the canon series . In its second weekend, the film grossed $10.5 million, finishing 4th at the box office and dropping 70.9% . The film was pulled from 1,112 theaters in its third weekend and dropped another 62.3%, finishing 6th at the box office with $4 million . </P> <P> Fox released the film in a number of international markets a week ahead of its domestic release . It was released in 34 markets, where it debuted to $40.1 million, opening at number one in 19 of them . Its overall rank for the weekend was second behind the continued run of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 . The top openings were in South Korea ($7.2 million), the UK ($6.4 million), France ($4.5 million), Australia ($3.1 million) and Mexico ($2.5 million). In China, the film was released on June 16 and grossed $30 million, topping the box office . </P> <P> On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 70% based on 303 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "Alien: Covenant delivers another satisfying round of close - quarters deep - space terror, even if it doesn't take the saga in any new directions ." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 52 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews", with a user score of 6.1 . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by its predecessor . </P>

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