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Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global at $218 M

Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

Without a bankable star like William Shatner, this movie really had no chance.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

They probably won't even make their $6 billion dollar advertising budget back. :(


J.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

Well clearly they screwed up, they should have made that TNG/DS9 crossover movie that the public was clamoring for. ;)
All I know is, everyone I see on the street asks me "What about Odo!? What about Grand Nagus Rom?!"?

They're clamoring I tells ya!
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

^ Star Trek won't be successful until they make an Enterprise movie. You just watch. Each new Trek movie will fail like this one until we see the ENT crew on the big screen!!! :mad:


J.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Pass $200M

So any chance a mod can change the title thread to Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Pass $200M.

;)
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

^ Star Trek won't be successful until they make an Enterprise movie. You just watch. Each new Trek movie will fail like this one until we see the ENT crew on the big screen!!! :mad:


J.
I hear they're already writing ANOTHER version of 'Faith of the Heart' for the film!! :lol:
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

^ Star Trek won't be successful until they make an Enterprise movie. You just watch. Each new Trek movie will fail like this one until we see the ENT crew on the big screen!!! :mad:


J.
I hear they're already writing ANOTHER version of 'Faith of the Heart' for the film!! :lol:

This time with xylophones and sung by Samuel Wright.


J.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

Looking at the top 10 films of 2009, I highly suspect that Trek will leap into the #2 spot by Thursday. How long it will stay at #2 may be another story, with T4 coming out.

I'm thinking T4 will open bigger, but not have the legs that Trek will have and ultimately make less. T4 is not going to get the adult audience the way Trek is powering through them.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

As of today, the pic's international cume is $70M over two weeks. This already makes Abrams' version the highest grossing international Star Trek, beating First Contact which did $57.4 million internationally. No movie in the franchise has ever cracked $100M overseas before. But Paramount is predicting that this latest Star Trek should do around $150 international and around $400M worldwide. Star Trek added another $21M this weekend from 6,131 locations across 57 territories. In the UK, its best market, the film has grossed $19M in just two weeks cume.) So now Star Trek's worldwide cume is $216M.

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

I think $400 million is a little bold by Paramount as is the $150 million oversea target. I think maximum we can do is...

* $225 in the US

* £130 oversea's

but still $355 would be a great but hey if am wrong then yeh $400 million;)

BoxOfficeGuru seems to think that this will go to $250 million domestic which I would agree with after this weekend.

Assuming it has a worse hold than IM had over Memorial Day, it can still make somewhere around $33-34 million. Add that to the next week's weekday grosses, which could be somewhere around $12-15 million, and Trek will be at close to $200 by Memorial Day Monday. It will easily get another $25 million and probably $50 million if its holding that well.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

I'm reposting this because I want to and I updated the international number. We're actually just shy of $218 million worldwide now.

The weekend estimate for Star Trek's domestic box office is $43.1 million, bringing its estimated domestic gross to $147.7 million. This represents an 42.7% drop from its opening weekend. This is a fantastic number following a huge opening weekend. Trek easily weathered the opening of Angels & Demons, which underperformed with $46.6 million.

Trek had an amazing 55.5% increase from Friday to Saturday, eclipsing the 1.3% increase from its opening weekend.

Note that the $43 estimate is based on a 29.6% Sunday decline. In its first weekend, Trek only experienced a 22.7% Sunday decline. If Sunday does better than expected, the final number could be anywhere from $1-2 million more.

This is better than the 48.1% drop Iron Man experienced on its second weekend (down to $51.2 million) and in line with the 43.4% drop Batman Begins had (down to $37.6 million). Also, Wolverine dropped 69% on its second weekend down to $26.4 million (a sizable $17 million less than Trek).

The total worldwide box office is over $218 million ($147.7 domestic + 70.3 international).
 
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Re: Star Trek - $42M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $147M - Global Nears $200M

I disagree... I think it is internally coherent. It might be the way that it's connected to Star Trek's past that turns off foreign audiences. Evidently Star Trek is not as popular elsewhere. Perhaps if Abrams had done a reboot it would have done better.

Trust me, it is regarded as a reboot and has been reviewed and publicised as such.

Internal coherency (which is debatable) does not make it in any way sophisticated. It is very much a film with action, humour and effects over logic and big ideas. I have nothing against it, but would never regard it as sophisticated.

And ST 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 are sophisticated? Not sure whether u consider any of the other trek films sophisticated compared to this one but this one was light years ahead of the other ones.....
TWOK is considered the best, but the motion picture is the only movie in the franchise dealing with logic and "big ideas"...and suffered big time as a result
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

Daily Box Office estimates it at $147.7 million domestic and Angels and Demons at only $46 million. It was so close!!

http://showbizdata.com/dailybox.cfm

The estimates are already going up.

I know at the theatre I went to today, all the IMAX shows were sold out and at least one of the regular showings was as well.
 
The story I heard at work is being repeated across the nation.

One of my co-workers was telling me her whole family, is going tonight. They didn't go before because they were waiting for word of mouth, and then they needed to arrange for baby sitters, in other words after the opening weekend they needed to make plans to see it this weekend.

So I think Sunday's numbers will be strong, and of note Canada has a national holiday on Monday called Victoria day those numbers go into the US numbers so that should help too.
 
Re: Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global Nears $200M

Trek had an amazing 55.5% increase from Friday to Saturday, eclipsing the 1.3% increase from its opening weekend.

If you had told me this Thursday or Friday I wouldn't have believed it was possible. Yesterday, I got a text from my brother, who manages a movie theater, about 4 pm. He said that up to that point Star Trek was doing about 50% more business than Angels and Demons for the day. At that point, assuming his theater was in any way typical of what was happening nationally, I knew that Star Trek had a good chance to finish much closer to A&D than I had originally thought. I'm taking this as a further sign that the movie will continue to perform well, even in the face of competition from Terminator next week. I think it may end up close to $300M in the US.
 
I think final numbers could easily be $200 Million worldwide after this weekend.
Look how close we are.

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

Yup. Either way, Star Trek will be the #1 movie of the year starting sometime next weekend. It probably will only have that crown for a month or so until Transformers 2 comes out, but it will still be awesome to say, "Star Trek is the NUMBER 1 movie of the year!"
 
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