Star Trek Brings In $7 Million Thursday Night
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Yup. So it looks like the $70-75 million forecast was fairly accurate.
That's about 100% impossible with a $32 million Thursday night + Friday.
Depends on the movie. The average movie goes up on Saturday. Event movies with large followings tend to drop on Saturdays.
Um... how can they have Friday numbers in when Friday isn't even over is some areas of the country?
Saturday is typically stronger than Friday, but films that are highly anticipated and that have a built-in audience that'll rush to see it at the earliest opportunity quite often dip on their opening Saturday. I think we're looking at $70-75 million.
estimates only
Probably extrapolating from the early returns. The people whose job it is to follow the numbers for the studios are getting them all through the day. They just aren't reported.
It's not an official number. The studio gathers box office data from theaters throughout the country during the night, and eventually comes up with an estimate of how much $ the movie made. They're in the process of doing that right now. But people in the know leak the preliminary numbers to journalists like Nikki Finke with guesses as to what the final number will look like, based on what they're seeing so far.
Yes, of course in this case, the Thursday night shows mean that some of that "rush out to see it right away" audience actually went on Thursday instead of Friday. So the Friday-to-Saturday drop should be pretty small.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smason/2009/05/08/star-trek-estimates/
$77 million estimate from this site with a decent analysis.
$77 million estimate from this site with a decent analysis.
Ah, ok...
I found it interesting that the theater I went to apparently split the 1015 showing into two screens because online ticket sales were high enough to warrant it.
I spoke with the girl who was shunted to the "expansion concession stand" they had set up in front of the trek expansion screen. She made three observations. One, most people were bypassing concessions in order to get into the theater and "not miss anything" and this was observed yesterday as well. Two, that they were having "parking issues". and Three, that xmen has died off and that trek's numbers are up with iron man for this theater, but not the packed to the capacity that was dark knight.
Here's hoping.
I found it interesting that the theater I went to apparently split the 1015 showing into two screens because online ticket sales were high enough to warrant it.
I spoke with the girl who was shunted to the "expansion concession stand" they had set up in front of the trek expansion screen. She made three observations. One, most people were bypassing concessions in order to get into the theater and "not miss anything" and this was observed yesterday as well. Two, that they were having "parking issues". and Three, that xmen has died off and that trek's numbers are up with iron man for this theater, but not the packed to the capacity that was dark knight.
Here's hoping.
All I can say is that we saw it last night, I would like to see it again as would dear son 1, 2 and 3. Hubby would like to see it again as well and I will be buying the DVD as soon as it hits the shelves.
ETA: Whereas the Nemesis dvd I would like to use as a drink coaster.
ETA: Whereas the Nemesis dvd I would like to use as a drink coaster.
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