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Box Office: ‘Alien: Romulus’ Bares Sharp Teeth With $6.5M in Thursday Previews

The eighth installment in the long-running franchise is set between the events of Ridley Scott's 1979 'Alien' and James Cameron's 1986 sequel, 'Aliens.'

Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus bit off a strong $6.5 million in Thursday previews, putting the highly anticipated August event on course to open to a better-than-expected $40 million-plus in another win for the Disney film empire and the summer box office overall. The movie sports a fresh 82 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, which could succeed in broadening out beyond older males, which are the target audience who grew up with the storied franchise. The R-rated movie tells the story of young colonists who come across a derelict space station and encounter the horror of the alien creature that is the enduring star of the franchise.

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