Be interesting to see what this weekend and the July 4 weekend bring... hopefully the theater count can stay high enough to accommodate any traffic.
Thursday (6/25) Box Office - Trek #8 - $0.6 million
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Be interesting to see what this weekend and the July 4 weekend bring... hopefully the theater count can stay high enough to accommodate any traffic.
Yeah, I hope so too. Especially since it only has two showings a day now at one of the theatres near me.
Regarding ST 12, Paramount currently lists July 4th weekend, 2011 as the release date for Transformers 3, but there's widespread speculation that they'll wait until 2012. Michael Bay says he doesn't want to rush right into production on part 3, and would rather take a break from Transformers for a year. ST 12 would be a logical replacement for it on Paramount's release date calendar, so the speculation is that they might aim for a July 4th weekend, 2011 release for the next Trek.
Hmmmm... interesting... I vote yes!
ST on July 4th might work, the only problem is being released in May saw bumps in future weeks due to certian events like Memorial Day, Father Day, Mothes Day etc etc what hoildays follow 4th July to help ST legs keep going. Another thing is were in middle of summer almost so so many people away on hoildays or doing other things and not wanting to go to cinema.
Still a good movie should breed good success I guess.
Still a good movie should breed good success I guess.
I think the theater in my town is about ready to ditch the film. Its down to only two showings, and at the early showing today I had the entire theater to myself. Sadly, Terminator Salvation has the same number of showings, and Imagine and LOTL each have four showings.
Well, I do know that there have been movies which have gone down to one or two showings one week, and we've expected them to be out the door, the next, only to stick around or even increase, when the home office has seen how well it performed for our area. (Used to be a theatre AMT once upon a time...)
So, it could happen, if TF2 craps out enough.
There's a little movie called Spider Man 4 opening on May 11, 2011... Star Trek would likely be consumed in its wake... maybe early June?
Kung Fu Panda 2 comes out the first weekend of June, Green Lantern the third weekend, and Cars 2 the fourth weekend. Trek might be able to slip into the second weekend slot.
Well, but Panda and Cars will be rather big, even though not aimed at the Trek audience. The Green Lantern movie is the wildcard, I suppose.
Actually, second weekend sounds pretty good; Spider Man will have subsided somewhat by then, and Panda/Cars won't threaten Trek much.
It'd sound better if spoken by Tom Waits.
And what's wrong with that? There's nothing wrong with turning your brain off and just enjoying something for 2 hours.
Kung Fu Panda is, like Star Trek, a Paramount release. They would probably not release big movies like that on back to back weekends, even if they're totally different genres. If they want to put Trek in early June, they would probably move KFP out of the way.
But I don't see what the problem is with July 4th weekend, should Transformers 3 indeed end up getting delayed. Given the success and strong wom of ST11, the sequel could easily end up doing more than $300 million domestically. It'll probably be Paramount's next most prized franchise after Transformers and Iron Man. Why would they shy away from putting it up on July 4th weekend?
Only downside I can see is the final Harry Potter movie coming out two weeks later. Trek could handle the competition domestically, but if they want to do another global release, Harry Potter would massacre it overseas.
Here's the Top 10 highest-grossing films of 2009 on the international level (not including 2008 films that are still making money, i.e. Slumdog Millionaire and Taken). I posted the same list a couple days ago in the box office thread, but I just thought I'd give you the updated one (as of Thursday's grosses). All the data comes from Box Office Mojo:
Angels & Demons
Domestic: $129,185,213 / 28.1%
+ Foreign: $330,852,871 / 71.9%
= Worldwide: $460,038,084
Monsters vs. Aliens
Domestic: $195,618,975 / 53.1%
+ Foreign: $172,935,849 / 46.9%
= Worldwide: $368,554,824
Star Trek
Domestic: $242,619,214 / 66.4%
+ Foreign: $123,000,997 / 33.6%
= Worldwide: $365,620,211
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Domestic: $177,526,652 / 49.2%
+ Foreign: $183,247,800 / 50.8%
= Worldwide: $360,774,452
Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian
Domestic: $159,747,670 / 45.1%
+ Foreign: $194,115,120 / 54.9%
= Worldwide: $353,862,790
Fast and Furious
Domestic: $154,952,350 / 44.4%
+ Foreign: $194,138,079 / 55.6%
= Worldwide: $349,090,429
Terminator Salvation
Domestic: $120,837,355 / 37.5%
+ Foreign: $201,543,644 / 62.5%
= Worldwide: $322,380,999
Up
Domestic: $237,172,817 / 91.8%
+ Foreign: $21,049,744 / 8.2%
= Worldwide: $258,222,561
The Hangover
Domestic: $166,032,101 / 84.6%
+ Foreign: $30,300,000 / 15.4%
= Worldwide: $196,332,101
Watchmen
Domestic: $107,509,799 / 58.8%
+ Foreign: $75,225,483 / 41.2%
= Worldwide: $182,735,282
It looks like Up will be passing Star Trek as the highest-grossing film of 2009 at the domestic box office very soon, probably before the weekend is out. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
Oh, and I don't know if it's already been posted here, but for comparison, here's the total so far for Transformers: ROTF:
Domestic: $89,245,788 52.7%
+ Foreign: $80,184,013 47.3%
= Worldwide: $169,429,801
As expected, it's frickin' huge. It'll definitely surpass Watchmen and The Hangover in the international Top Ten of 2009 by the end of this weekend -- probably not Up, but you never know. If the bad reviews and word-of-mouth are going to affect this film at all, they haven't started doing so yet.
I may post an updated list tomorrow -- if not, definitely by the end of the weekend.
Angels & Demons
Domestic: $129,185,213 / 28.1%
+ Foreign: $330,852,871 / 71.9%
= Worldwide: $460,038,084
Monsters vs. Aliens
Domestic: $195,618,975 / 53.1%
+ Foreign: $172,935,849 / 46.9%
= Worldwide: $368,554,824
Star Trek
Domestic: $242,619,214 / 66.4%
+ Foreign: $123,000,997 / 33.6%
= Worldwide: $365,620,211
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Domestic: $177,526,652 / 49.2%
+ Foreign: $183,247,800 / 50.8%
= Worldwide: $360,774,452
Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian
Domestic: $159,747,670 / 45.1%
+ Foreign: $194,115,120 / 54.9%
= Worldwide: $353,862,790
Fast and Furious
Domestic: $154,952,350 / 44.4%
+ Foreign: $194,138,079 / 55.6%
= Worldwide: $349,090,429
Terminator Salvation
Domestic: $120,837,355 / 37.5%
+ Foreign: $201,543,644 / 62.5%
= Worldwide: $322,380,999
Up
Domestic: $237,172,817 / 91.8%
+ Foreign: $21,049,744 / 8.2%
= Worldwide: $258,222,561
The Hangover
Domestic: $166,032,101 / 84.6%
+ Foreign: $30,300,000 / 15.4%
= Worldwide: $196,332,101
Watchmen
Domestic: $107,509,799 / 58.8%
+ Foreign: $75,225,483 / 41.2%
= Worldwide: $182,735,282
It looks like Up will be passing Star Trek as the highest-grossing film of 2009 at the domestic box office very soon, probably before the weekend is out. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
Oh, and I don't know if it's already been posted here, but for comparison, here's the total so far for Transformers: ROTF:
Domestic: $89,245,788 52.7%
+ Foreign: $80,184,013 47.3%
= Worldwide: $169,429,801
As expected, it's frickin' huge. It'll definitely surpass Watchmen and The Hangover in the international Top Ten of 2009 by the end of this weekend -- probably not Up, but you never know. If the bad reviews and word-of-mouth are going to affect this film at all, they haven't started doing so yet.
I may post an updated list tomorrow -- if not, definitely by the end of the weekend.
