Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $5.8 million - $168 million

[Norrin Radd]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Land of the Lost could be this year's Evan Almighty.

I wonder if audiences are getting tired of Will Ferrell's schtick.

 

[MvRojo]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Land of the Lost could be this year's Evan Almighty.

I wonder if audiences are getting tired of Will Ferrell's schtick.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=willferrell.htm

If you look at his track record, besides Elf and Talladega Nights (and to a lesser extent Step Brothers and Blades of Glory), most of his movies make well below $100 million. Considering how much they cost, they are very successful, but not box office powerhouses.

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

He's definitely an underachiever, which is what bothers me about him.

 

[MvRojo]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Here's a fun fact:
Star Trek will end up as Paramount 7th most successful film of all time...unadjusted of course.


Looks like Avatar might get 3 months in IMAX:
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.c...-be-a-good-long-run-of-james-camerons-avatar/

 

[StarTrek1701]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Damn, T-4 is sinking fast. How the hell did that happen??

 

[MPH]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Hope T4 does well, atleast to get a final film in the series made so the Terminator series can be bookended.
Trek is still doing well and will make 200 million easily and with a sequel already but confirmed.

 

[Scotty]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

If those numbers are anywhere close to accurate it seems that T4 is on the way to an EPIC FAIL (compared to predictions).

Not surprising, since The Sarah Connor Chronicles was cancelled due to ratings. Who exactly was waiting for a Terminator sequel anyway?

Star Trek seems to be hanging in there, dueling once again with A&D, but maintaning its audience even in its third week. Impressive.

 

[Mike Farley]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

So by the end of the long weekend STAR TREK is going to be the number one money maker for the year so far. And it'll hold on to that spot for a least three or four weeks.

Very nice. It's a good time to be a Trekkie.

 

[NiteTrek]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Here are the early estimate from Steve Mason:
These are very early estimates, so they are likely off more than those that come in Saturday morning.

Then why post them and then later post actuals? How about just waiting and posting the actuals?

 

[flemm]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Man, things are looking pretty good for Trek. It's been spiking on Saturday, meaning it will probably do very nicely on Sunday this weekend as well. And T4 looks like its going to tank. Very nice!

I could see Trek staying pretty strong all the way through to Transformers.

 

[optimus1]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

You just know the next time you see a terminator on the big screen it will be a reboot of the series with a real good director and writer behind it. I don't see a part 2 in this McG series ever happening.

 

[VOODOOXI]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Interesting numbers.

It is now likely that "Night at the Museum" will be number one at the box office this weekend. The two films were so close on Friday night and NATM will surely play better on Sunday and Monday than T4.

I'd bet that S.T. comes in at number three this weekend. It should out gross "Angels and Demons" Saturday thru Monday.

The producers of T4 can't be thrilled with it's performance thus far.

Believe it or not "Star Trek" is going to be the biggest of the early summer films... Who would have thought?

 

[indranee]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Here are the early estimate from Steve Mason:
These are very early estimates, so they are likely off more than those that come in Saturday morning.

Then why post them and then later post actuals? How about just waiting and posting the actuals?

because it's fun for us to speculate, and because we pretty much wait for MvRojo's posting the estimate here

 

[flemm]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

You just know the next time you see a terminator on the big screen it will be a reboot of the series with a real good director and writer behind it. I don't see a part 2 in this McG series ever happening.

Maybe, but I think it will be tough to reboot convincingly. The franchise was very reliant on Arnold.

 

[indranee]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

You just know the next time you see a terminator on the big screen it will be a reboot of the series with a real good director and writer behind it. I don't see a part 2 in this McG series ever happening.

you mean, with Arnold's character's back history? hmm, if it's about that it might be actually something I'd pay to watch.

 

[VulcanJedi]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

If those numbers are anywhere close to accurate it seems that T4 is on the way to an EPIC FAIL (compared to predictions).

The movie trailer makes it look boring and serious and too heavy-handed. I like Bale--but man that heaviness is getting old. The reviews just confirm suspicions.

 

[crookeddy]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Fantastic numbers for Trek considering the competition.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Termination Salvation! Smart move Warners... spend $200 million on this bomb! Can't wait until it tanks next weekend...


Yancy

Did T4 really cost this much? It definitely did NOT look it

Are you serious? The movie was non-stop good looking effects...

 

[crookeddy]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

If those numbers are anywhere close to accurate it seems that T4 is on the way to an EPIC FAIL (compared to predictions).

The movie trailer makes it look boring and serious and too heavy-handed. I like Bale--but man that heaviness is getting old. The reviews just confirm suspicions.

Weren't the first two Terminators heavy and serious? And three was blasted as being too light and silly?

 

[indranee]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

You just know the next time you see a terminator on the big screen it will be a reboot of the series with a real good director and writer behind it. I don't see a part 2 in this McG series ever happening.

Maybe, but I think it will be tough to reboot convincingly. The franchise was very reliant on Arnold.

that's true. they'll need good writers and a fantastic casting director. one of the reasons I believe Trek did so well was because casting was so, soooo spot on. it was absolute gold -- from the big ones (Kirk and Spock) to the smallest ones (the "Yes, sir!" voice from a supposed Nurse Chapel in Sickbay).

 

[VOODOOXI]

Re: Early Friday Estimates - Star Trek #4 - $6.3 million

Thats not good at all for Terminator, how much did Trek make on its first day? Wasn't it 30m when you factor in the early screenings the day before?

Terminator is nothing without Arnold. And does this mean that Bale can't open a big movie without being Batman?

Hard to say. Terminator is still going to have $75 million or so by Monday, so it's not a total disaster. How much of that was Bale fans is unclear. But in general, he really hasn't opened a movie big besides Batman, although he does tend to do smaller films.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=christianbale.htm

Christian Bale has never "opened" a film. People did not go and see the last couple of "Batman" films because he was in them. They went because "Batman" is a franchise that they enjoy.

Stars the magnitude of Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise can "open" films. Not stars like Bale.

P.S. I don't mean to sound down on C.Bale (I'm a fan) but he isn't in that class of celebrity yet.