Cowboys & Aliens
“First Contact. Last Stand.”
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Genres
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western
Studio
DreamWorks Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Cowboys & Aliens performed
Budget
$163.0M
Worldwide Gross
$174.8M
Gross Profit
$11.8M
Return
1.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$23M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Jake Lonergan
Daniel Craig
Jake Lonergan
Woodrow Dolarhyde
Harrison Ford
Woodrow Dolarhyde
Ella Swenson
Olivia Wilde
Ella Swenson
Doc
Sam Rockwell
Doc
Nat Colorado
Adam Beach
Nat Colorado
Percy Dolarhyde
Paul Dano
Percy Dolarhyde
Emmet Taggart
Noah Ringer
Emmet Taggart
Sheriff John Taggart
Keith Carradine
Sheriff John Taggart
Meacham
Clancy Brown
Meacham
Hunt
Walton Goggins
Hunt
Alice
Abigail Spencer
Alice
Maria
Ana de la Reguera
Maria
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