Star Trek - $7.50 million on Monday

[The Transformed Man]

Re: Star Trek’s Monday Box Office sets a record.

What record did it set?

Most money made on a first Monday right after the release. To reiterate thaniyo's figures:

Not even close... not even in the top 72

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/f-th.htm?page=Mon&p=.htm

 

[Devon]

Delete.

 

[Akiraprise]

Re: Star Trek’s Monday Box Office sets a record.

I merged your thread with the other Monday box office thread Thaniyo.

 

[indranee]

Re: Star Trek - $7.64 million on Monday

Odo's_Bucket, as someone who's favorite Trek is Deep Space 9, I really am trying to understand--why are you so negative on this movie?

Maybe I've missed something here...

Ds9 was quality and Trek at it's best. This new movie isn't. Besides, I've already said countless times that I hope it makes a profit. I just doubt that it will.

dude, I love DS9 to bits. I was there with that show from the pilot to the very end. I think it was the cream of the crop.

but I can tell you, I have no envy whatsoever. I love TOS. Trek is Trek. loving one and hating another to the point of pissing on everyone else's cereal is NOT. COOL.

please, get a grip. if you hate it so much, go over to the Niner forum and post there for a while. let us have our fun. we deserve it.

 

[indranee]

Re: Star Trek - $7.64 million on Monday

Because why should only TOS fans have all the fun?

BTW, great avatar.

Found it on the Internet, don't know who did it.

great ava, yeah!

btw, that Uhura pic was a promo one, methinks. the Spock pic might be from Space Seed.

 

[Phily B]

I think Paramount will see a surge in DVD sales for old Star Trek films/series too.

 

[indranee]

that is already happening. today, my dad told me he went to Movie Stop (in Central NJ) hoping to buy the director's cut of TMP. the manager at the store told him that he'd stocked a HUGE fresh batch of TOS eps and movies just Sunday night. by Monday afternoon, they were all -- ALL -- gone.

gone. sold. out of the store.

my dad's waiting on the director's cut. but he was happy to report this to me

 

[PiperMaru22]

Not sure if this is the appropriate thread to post this, but I went to see the movie again this afternoon and the theater I went to was about 2/3 full.

Which I think was a big deal because I've been to this particular theater before on a Tuesday afternoon -specifically last summer to see The Dark Knight, and it wasn't nearly as full as this. I arrived about twenty minutes early and there was already a line formed and I had a hard time finding a nice seat that wasn't behind too many people (I'm short so yeah...).

I'm not in any way suggesting this is going to be TDK big or anything, but I think this movie has a good chance of lasting past opening weekend if my experience today was any indication.

 

[indranee]

^ I went to an IMAX screening today and it was sold out.

 

[PiperMaru22]

Oh I'd love to see it in IMAX (but ours won't show anything but education films).

But yeah, stuff like this is really encouraging to me. I've talked to friends who are completely disinterested in Trek and they are now open to seeing it. And every time I've seen this movie the crowd was very diverse, people of all ages. It wasn't just older fans like it was when I saw Nemesis.

 

[Akiraprise]

For an opposite point of view when I went to see Trek today there were only two people in addition to myself in the theatre. Although the counter worker said Trek was full all weekend long and it was the best film she's ever seen.

 

[luec]

movies in the 21st century are considered a hit if the studio makes back its production costs on the big screen. they make more money of the dvd sales then they make form the theater ticket sales.

 

[Semah]

I think Paramount will see a surge in DVD sales for old Star Trek films/series too.

My friend and I went to the local Best Buy to pick up some Original Star Trek series on DVD this weekend and they were sold out. An anecdote does not equal a statistic, but it does equal a good sign.

 

[PiperMaru22]

Well, I did go for a 4pm showing, so perhaps a lot of it had to do with the after school crowd.

 

[Amaris]

I went to Wal*Mart this evening and did a little grocery shopping. I stopped on by the electronics where one of my old friends works, and he asked me if I had seen the movie. I told him I had, and he said he was seeing it this week. Anyway, he showed me the top rack of the TV series DVDs and BluRay discs, where the 'S' row started. He said that whole top rack had been loaded with TOS and TNG seasons this morning. The rack was empty except for one box set, the Alternative Realities set. Our Wal*Mart never has Star Trek seasons for sale. He said they ordered them hoping people who buy them because of the movie. He said they sold all 49 disc sets, with the one box set remaining. I went ahead and bought it.

J.

 

[Borgminister]

I went to Wal*Mart this evening and did a little grocery shopping. I stopped on by the electronics where one of my old friends works, and he asked me if I had seen the movie. I told him I had, and he said he was seeing it this week. Anyway, he showed me the top rack of the TV series DVDs and BluRay discs, where the 'S' row started. He said that whole top rack had been loaded with TOS and TNG seasons this morning. The rack was empty except for one box set, the Alternative Realities set. Our Wal*Mart never has Star Trek seasons for sale. He said they ordered them hoping people who buy them because of the movie. He said they sold all 49 disc sets, with the one box set remaining. I went ahead and bought it.

J.

Question is who the hell is buying this stuff--it can't be the old guard because they already have it, so it has to be newly indoctrinated Trekkies hungry for more of that universe.

Remarkable.

It would seem that Angels and Demons and Star Trek can coexist like Fast and Furious and Aliens V Monsters did, divvying up the box office take for the weekend. I still can't believe this is happening... I'm overjoyed.

Blu Ray will be mine once the movie hits the DVD. After it has had a long stay in the theaters, that is.

 

[Amaris]

I went to Wal*Mart this evening and did a little grocery shopping. I stopped on by the electronics where one of my old friends works, and he asked me if I had seen the movie. I told him I had, and he said he was seeing it this week. Anyway, he showed me the top rack of the TV series DVDs and BluRay discs, where the 'S' row started. He said that whole top rack had been loaded with TOS and TNG seasons this morning. The rack was empty except for one box set, the Alternative Realities set. Our Wal*Mart never has Star Trek seasons for sale. He said they ordered them hoping people who buy them because of the movie. He said they sold all 49 disc sets, with the one box set remaining. I went ahead and bought it.

J.

Question is who the hell is buying this stuff--it can't be the old guard because they already have it, so it has to be newly indoctrinated Trekkies hungry for more of that universe.

Remarkable.

It would seem that Angels and Demons and Star Trek can coexist like Fast and Furious and Aliens V Monsters did, divvying up the box office take for the weekend. I still can't believe this is happening... I'm overjoyed.

Blu Ray will be mine once the movie hits the DVD. After it has had a long stay in the theaters, that is.

It is remarkable. It's wonderful.
I'll get BluRay once I can afford a player (below $100). Until then, I love my DVDs. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a little alternative reality to watch.

J.

 

[thaniyo]

Re: Star Trek’s Monday Box Office sets a record.

I merged your thread with the other Monday box office thread Thaniyo.

Thank you so much Akiraprise.
I am glad to see Star Trek makes a lot of money because this movie is a phenomenon.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Re: Star Trek’s Monday Box Office sets a record.

It is. And it's badass. Like a giant can opener.

 

[Mr Awe]

Re: Star Trek - $7.64 million on Monday

By the way, this could cross $100 on Wednesday, which would make it only the second Trek film ever to do so, unadjusted.

It's doing great. But, if you adjust for inflation, 7 of the previous 10 Trek movies have exceeded $100 million in current dollars. Shoot, even Final Frontier got $90 million in current dollars. So, it's a no brainer that this movie will exceed $100 million.

Mr Awe