Prometheus Makes £500,000 From Advance Tickets

      The BFI IMAX is already set to break advance ticket booking records after making over £500,000 for Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’.

    ‘Prometheus’ is directed by 74-year-old Ridley Scott, is about a team of explorers who discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth. It premiered in London in Leicester Square last night and stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green and Guy Pearce.

     More than 32,000 people attended the first public screenings at midnight last night at the IMAX. The pre-sale figures are set to beat mega hits like ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, Part 2’ and ‘Avatar’.

Ridley Scott

    The film’s budget was reported to be around £130 million and is not directly related to ‘Alien’, although it started out as a prequel.  It does, however share “strands of DNA” to ‘Alien’, according to Ridley Scott. ‘Prometheus’ was shot all over England, Spain, Iceland and Scotland last year using 3D cameras.

   However, the very first reviews of the movies have just been released since the premier last night. Critics such as The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw have expressed negative opinions about the most talked about Sci-Fi film of the summer. He described the film as "more grandiose, more elaborate - but less interesting" than the 1979 hit ‘Alien’ and he continued, "in place of scariness there is wonderment; in place of tension there is hugely ambitious design; in place of unforgettable shocks there are reminders of the original's unforgettable shocks."

   But Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy praised the flick as a “visual feast of a 3D sci-fi movie that has trouble combining its high-minded notions about the origins of the species and its Alien-based obligation to deliver oozy gross-out moments." He also said that it is "a film that caters too much to imagined audience expectations when a little more adventurous thought might have taken it to some excitingly unsuspected destinations."

    The visual effects and artistic elements of ‘Prometheus’ were praised by many and only time will tell if the public think the film’s worthy of the hype!