Australia Box Office for Alien (1979)

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Alien
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Australia Box Office $71,539Details
Worldwide Box Office $188,034,787Details
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Movie Details

Production Budget:$10,700,000
Australia Releases: December 7th, 1979 (Wide)
November 26th, 2020 (Limited)
Video Release: December 7th, 1992 by Fox Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 117 minutes
Franchise: Alien
Keywords: Visual Effects, Parasite, Survival Horror
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Horror
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Science Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Twentieth Century Fox
Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2019/09/13 - $2,053   1 $2,053   $10,870 2,076
2020/07/17 17 $25,319   94 $269   $43,233 2,120
2020/07/24 - $4,328 -83% 18 $240   $58,409 2,121
2020/07/31 - $3,021 -30% 13 $232   $63,524 2,122
2020/09/11 - $581   1 $581   $71,142 2,128
2020/10/23 - $299   1 $299   $71,539 2,134
2020/10/30 - $425 +42% 2 $213   $0 2,135
2020/11/06 - $5,186 +1,120% 27 $192   $0 2,136
2020/11/13 - $946 -82% 4 $237   $0 2,137
2020/11/27 - $1,292   1 $1,292   $1,292 2,139
2021/05/07 - $1,466   1 $1,466   $0 2,162

Box Office Summary Per Territory

$00$00
Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 12/7/1979 $0 0 94 169 $71,539 4/16/2021
Italy 5/29/2023 00$0
Mexico 4/26/2023 00$0
New Zealand 4/26/2017 $0 0 24 42 $32,957 4/29/2024
North America 5/25/1979 $3,522,581 91 1,750 12,118 $65,403,354
Russia (CIS) 3/7/2019 $69,837 105 105 197 $140,015 5/4/2019
South Korea 10/1/1987 $0 0 23 46 $7,159 7/15/2020
United Kingdom 10/31/2003 $0 0 210 630 $442,841 9/13/2023
 
Rest of World $121,936,922
 
Worldwide Total$188,034,787 4/29/2024

Leading Cast

Tom Skerritt    Dallas
Sigourney Weaver    Ripley

Supporting Cast

Veronica Cartwright    Lambert
Harry Dean Stanton    Brett
John Hurt    Kane
Ian Holm    Ash
Yaphet Kotto    Parker
Helen Horton    Voice of Mother

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Ridley Scott    Director
Dan O’Bannon    Screenwriter
Dan O’Bannon    Story Creator
Ronald Shusett    Story Creator
Jerry Goldsmith    Composer
Gordon Carroll    Producer
David Giler    Producer
Walter Hill    Producer
Ronald Shusett    Executive Producer
Ivor Powell    Associate Producer
Paul Ibbetson    Assistant Director
Garth Thomas    Production Manager
Michael Seymour    Production Designer
Leslie Dilley    Art Director
Roger Christian    Art Director
Ian Whittaker    Set Decorator
Dan O’Bannon    Visual Consultant
Derek Vanlint    Director of Photography
Denys Ayling    Director of Photography
H.R. Giger    Special Effects
Carlo Rambaldi    Special Effects
Brian Johnson, Jr.    Special Effects Supervisor
Nick Allder    Special Effects Supervisor
John Mollo    Costume Designer
Tiny Nicholls    Costume Supervisor
Terry Rawlings    Editor
Peter Weatherley    Editor
Derrick Leather    Sound Mixer
Bill Rowe    Re-recording Mixer
Jim Shield    Sound Editor
Bryan Tilling    Dialogue Editor
Bob Hathaway    Music Editor
Tommy Manderson    Make up
Mary Goldberg    Casting Director
Mary Selway    Casting Director
Roy Scammel    Stunt Coordinator

The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.