Foreign $Numbers$ are in!

[Blue_Trek]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek11.htm

Domestic: $99,002,539 69.8% + Foreign: $42,766,722 30.2% = Worldwide: $141,769,261

 

[anothertrekfan]

Why did Star Trek never appeal to the foreign audience?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Could be a lot of reasons, but probably the fact that the movies are so talky doesn't help. American films with lots of action that are less dialogue-reliant do better outside the English-speaking markets.

 

[indranee]

its sentiment and feel was always quintessentially American.

all bets are off with this movie though. it's broken substantial new ground in its look and essence.

 

[miraclefan]

Why did Star Trek never appeal to the foreign audience?

Because it was too AMERICAN?

 

[anothertrekfan]

^I see your point.

 

[Blue_Trek]

Too American Look at the crew, they seem very international to me.
Of course Kirk is a good old American boy.

Anyways many countries don't even have it showing yet, those numbers will add to the totals at the end of summer.

 

[Dale]

Lots of Germans freaking love Trek. This board also has a heavy British population. Lots of Canadians. We've also got a few Aussies, an Icelander and at least one member each from Itlay and France.

Trek's appeal isn't limited to the US.

 

[indranee]

^right, and how many Americans?

 

[Kpnuts]

Trek is very popular in UK.

Sadly the advertising for the film was pretty rubbish. I'm sure most people knew about the film, but regardless, apart from tv ads we haven't had much at all.

 

[Kpnuts]

So basically... it's pretty much made up it's 150 mil budget, all in the space of a week. And with weeks in the cinema still to go and DVD sales still to come.

That's remarkable. Let's try and see the bashers argue against that.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

So basically... it's pretty much made up it's 150 mil budget, all in the space of a week. And with weeks in the cinema still to go and DVD sales still to come.

That's remarkable. Let's try and see the bashers argue against that.

Let's not. Because they will.

 

[chrisspringob]

Why did Star Trek never appeal to the foreign audience?

I was wondering if it might have something to do with the age of the franchise???? By which I mean, look at this list:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

and compare the fraction of the worldwide gross earned in North America for movies like Jaws, E.T., and Star Wars to more recent movies. 30 years ago, American movies just didn't make as much of their total $ overseas. Maybe American movies just hadn't really penetrated as many of the overseas markets back then (at least not to the extent they have now), and so movies associated with franchises from that era don't already have quite as big of a pre-existing fanbase as they do in the US???

Or maybe not....I don't know. That's just speculation. One would need more specific market-by-market data to say anything more.

 

[anothertrekfan]

^I can't stop staring at that damn avatar

 

[Phily B]

It is doing as well as any film could in the UK really, its probably the second biggest market outside of North America. I don't think Trek has been released in every country though, the numbers will go up and it'll do good business in total.

 

[donners22]

Too American Look at the crew, they seem very international to me.
Of course Kirk is a good old American boy.

This film is very American. Enterprise was described in the same way by several newspaper writers, as I recall.


The relatively poor performance in Australia was blamed on the lack of a big-name actor and scepticism about the "corny" franchise (writer's word, not mine...).

 

[Rii]

The proportions are in line with previous Trek productions.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Lots of Germans freaking love Trek. This board also has a heavy British population. Lots of Canadians. We've also got a few Aussies, an Icelander and at least one member each from Itlay and France.

Trek's appeal isn't limited to the US.

In the last few days, I've seen 3 fellow dutchmen, excluding yours truly.

Anyway, I think it's got something to do with promotion. Trek's got a lot of cloud over here, but since the promotion obviously wasn't as good as in countries like Britain or France (seeing as there was none whatsoever), it's not that surprising.

Doesn't tend to do the movie any good if people don't actually know there's a new movie.

 

[photon70]

Why did Star Trek never appeal to the foreign audience?

The following reasons apply:

(1) Trek hasn't opened in all international markets,eg, Japan and China.

(2) A movie ticket doesn't cost the same everywhere. Even if the same number of tickets were sold internationally, the box office $ would be different.

Take the numbers in perspective from a Star Trek franchise point of view.

When all is said and done, Star Trek will have done $100million (at least) internationally and that would be gang busters.

 

[Phily B]

Lots of Germans freaking love Trek. This board also has a heavy British population. Lots of Canadians. We've also got a few Aussies, an Icelander and at least one member each from Itlay and France.

Trek's appeal isn't limited to the US.

In the last few days, I've seen 3 fellow dutchmen, excluding yours truly.

Anyway, I think it's got something to do with promotion. Trek's got a lot of cloud over here, but since the promotion obviously wasn't as good as in countries like Britain or France (seeing as there was none whatsoever), it's not that surprising.

Doesn't tend to do the movie any good if people don't actually know there's a new movie.

Felt like there was plenty in the UK.