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According to a title-card in the made-for-DVD short documentary He Lives: Interview with John Carpenter (2013), "They Live opened at the #1 at the US box office. And disappeared from theaters soon afterwards".

And: https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/they-live/
>The film topped two weeks of slow box-office performance, earning $13 million over its $3 million budget; but then, as actor Keith David noted, “It must’ve pissed someone off,” because it strangely disappeared from theaters altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5PfgVgdgZI

Here's the actual video where he says that it was doing great and then was mysteriously yanked from every theater in the USA.