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

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  1. Spock/Uhura Fan

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    It just has to be enough of a success to warrant another film, and from what I can tell, it's already done that.
     
  2. Out Of My Vulcan Mind

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    Star Trek was released in China in 2009. It made $8.5 million there.
     
  3. Spock/Uhura Fan

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    It wasn't released country-wide the way STID was, IIRC. I think it was just one city, Hong Kong, which was counted just as Hong Kong, not China. I'd have to check on it again.
     
  4. Out Of My Vulcan Mind

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    No, Hong Kong is counted as a separate release to China. Star Trek made $1.282 million in Hong Kong, separate from the $8.5 million it made in China. Star Trek didn't get as big a release in China as STID did. That's true. But it was released there. The Chinese market has dramatically expanded for Hollywood films since then.
     
  5. Spock/Uhura Fan

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    Okay, so I looked it up and yes, there's the 8.5 mil, but I also read that the film wasn't "distributed" in China, and that's why the number is so small. So, I'm not sure if that means that the 8.5 is from sampling the film there or what, just that it didn't have a country-wide release the way STID did.

    I guess the point is that if you allow the movie to be seen by more people, then of course it's going to make more money there. Considering the domestic numbers, it's like I said, thank goodness for the country-wide release in China.
     
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    "Sorry" for not being able to say anything in my post.

    Keep it up.

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  7. Cinema Geekly

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    The worst thing to come out of that article is the comments section. Unreal amounts of silliness in there talking about ditching Bad Robot and doing the next film for 70 million.

    Yes, that will surely keep the franchise alive: Taking away the one thing that is saving it.
     
  8. BillJ

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    I don't know about you, but I've been dying for a Nemesis sequel! :rofl:
     
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    A Genesis device was aboard Shinzon's ship and in Nemesis 2 we see the RETURN of Shinzon, his head grafted onto Data's body!!
     
  10. Mr. Adventure

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    Wasn't that Star Trek 09?
     
  11. BillJ

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    I meant a direct continuation of that story. :p
     
  12. Admiral Buzzkill

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    Calling it an "analysis" is debasing the term. It's just playing arbitrary games with numbers in order to prove something that ain't so.
     
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    silliness or not, big budgets don't make a great movie. TWOK and TUC were shot on small budgets and are two of the best films in the series.
     
  14. Therin of Andor

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    Nah. Did the comments also include the other chestnut? CBS needs to offer money and support to the fanfilm producers, get them all to work together, and start airing their efforts in prime time. :devil:
     
  15. Cinema Geekly

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    No argument there, but as it relates to Trek on the big screen?

    The studios have found a system that works for them on the money making end and it doesn't look like lower budgets are coming anytime soon.
     
  16. teacake

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    What we need is cheap ass reality science fiction.
     
  17. Mr. Adventure

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    And here I was making a snarky comment about Trek 09 and forgot it was technically the sequel in progression. :D
     
  18. Opus

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    Those movies were made 20-30 years ago.
     
  19. Spock/Uhura Fan

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    No.

    And what would that be?
     
  20. Nerys Myk

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    ^Since the last few pages of this thread have centered around folks trying to prove Into Darkness was unsuccessful, I'm going with that.