STID "tracking" for $85-90 million opening [U.S. box office]

just wondering what the numbers will be after it opens in Japan on August 23. Does anybody know after Japan if there are anymore openings left?

 

A notable exception to this is STID's fellow Paramount release World War Z, which passed Trek in worldwide gross a few days ago. Pretty impressive for a troubled production that many box office analysts were expecting to fail.

 

Just got back, wonderful movie! my girlfriend was amazingly exited, she WANTS to see it again. im ready to organize a group and watch it again on friday. The 3d was actually good

I dont get why it wasnt a larger hit in the US, "far better than all the other summer flicks and better than the TDKR" and this came from my girlfried who loved FF6 and is not a trekkie yet

 

And that's a damn shame. I like new stuff.

 

Great that you finally got to see it and that you enjoyed it.

Is the interest big for Star Trek in Venezuela?

 

The current Hollywood Model has been to produce fewer movies but more "tent-pole" productions to lift a studio's bottom line (like a tent pole). I think this year we are seeing an oversaturation with that models where 3-6 of those big productions are likely to lose big money.

These days sequels, prequels, remakes, existing properties, etc, are seen as safe or safer bets than unknown entities. A year where a lot of these major tent-poles fail could force a change in Hollywood's approach to movies. But they will only evolve if forced to at gunpoint (aka, colossal losses of cash).

I expect there to be some superhero crashes coming as there is just too much out there planned. And 2015 is so loaded with huge budget productions its setting up to be a turning point year. The domestic market just cannot infinitely expand to support all these productions. Some will lose money and some will flop big time.

Only then will we get to see more "new stuff".

 

One thing I did think about before was that I saw this film about three times, but I saw Trek 09 double that. It feels like Trek 09 was more of an event and was in cinemas longer, even though I thought ID was a better movie.

 

That's why huge international grosses are the aim for tentpole films these days. They may eventually cut back a bit on the number of tentpole releases a bit, though, if there's too much cannabilization. Next year looks to have fewer mega-budget films than this year, although, as you say, 2015 is shaping up to be insanely competitive.

Most of the flops will probably continue to be the attempts to launch new franchises, while sequels continue to be a (mostly) safe bet. I expect tentpole releases to become even more heavily focused on extending existing franchises through sequels, prequels and spin-offs.

 

STID has been growing on me. Or at least the first half hour. I've been watching it on youtube. Can't find the rest, though...

 

I'm already surprised (in a good way) that the genre lasted as long as it did. 1999-2013 is a very long time for these things.

But I agree, it's a safe bet for them until the market changes.

 

Its almost non existant. The last trek movie which was shown on TV (not cable) was in 2000. And the last series also shown on local tv was ds9 in 1996.

The last TREK movie made only $ 500.000. This time the premiere looked a lot fuller than last time - and it was the 3d version of the movie.

Tonight I'm going for seconds and I might go for 3rds on Sunday

Word of mouth is the main weapon here, as there is almost no publicity and Disney has the distribution rights here in Venezuela, so Star Trek is shadowed by "The Lone Ranger " advertisements.

 

Five hundred dollars? Damn!

 

Most of that was from showings at dollar theaters, though.

 

Not a typo - it is usual in Spanish speaking countries to use . where we anglophones would use , as a seperator in large numbers.

 

I'll echo that... it's still in the dollar theaters here BTW. Just think that STiD was a much better all around movie. OTOH Trek 09 was restarting a franchise, much like Casino Royale with James Bond, and more people were interested in the outcome - seemed as if just as many people wanting it to fail as to succeed.

 

^That's not strictly true you don't have to use a comma or a decimal place. I was taught you use a space i.e. 10 000, 1 000 000.

 

It would be cool if it gets an IMAX re-release in September like ST09 did. I may go see it a second time.

 

Well more than spanish speaking countries, most of the world uses the dot (.) for thousands and the comma (,) for decimals.

Star Trek (2009) Made only $ 568000

Lets hope for more this time!