Official Star Trek Week 8 Box Office Thread

[Jax]

Still think it has one more good weekend left...Let's say $2-3 million....so let's say we're at $247-248 by friday, on Monday it will be at $250 mill plus.

RAMA

This would be great, and I hope it happens.

Yeh ST will be at $248 million come thursday and am sure ST has the legs to $2 million over the weekend. I cannot believe the legs of this film is truly amazing I only wish the international numbers had the same ability, loks like $125 milion ish is the finish zone but still a WW total of over $375 is just out of this world.

I wonder if come the sequel that Paramount will push promotion harder for oversea's to see if they can break the $150 million barrier.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Only 20. And I'm sure somebody has seen it 100 times; some Trekker who works at a cinema somewhere...

Which I did a few years ago... If I still worked there I would have seen ist a couple times more perhaps, but it wouldn't have done anything for the box office, since i got in for free every time.

 

[Bad Atom]

There's no way they'll pull the film before it hits the magic $250M mark.

 

[Similitude]

True, but if they pull it from a lot of places this weekend, it might take a few more weeks to cross it.

 

[Jeri]

Lucky 21?

It's 30 minutes on the expressway, and I'd have to go by myself to boot. Jerry said the seats at that place were painful for him. I thought it was a nice complex myself. (My husband's name is Jerry: Jeri and Jerry.)

...If I still worked there I would have seen ist a couple times more perhaps, but it wouldn't have done anything for the box office, since i got in for free every time.

That's right. We spent a bundle on admission. Probably around $400, since most of it was IMAX. My husband went about 15 times, I guess.

But I can count on one hand the other movies I've seen at the cinema in the last two decades, so I feel OK about it.

Nemesis
X-Files
LOTR-ROTK
Harry Potter
Star Wars recut

I think that's it.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Another good hold, especially in light of Transformers' performance, which many thought would be the death of Trek at the box office. I look for a nice Fourth of July weekend, around $2M for Fri-Sat, and then a long fade until around September.

 

[Borgminister]

GO LONG FADE!

At my IMAX... SOON.

 

[MvRojo]

Lucky 21?

It's 30 minutes on the expressway, and I'd have to go by myself to boot. Jerry said the seats at that place were painful for him. I thought it was a nice complex myself. (My husband's name is Jerry: Jeri and Jerry.)

...If I still worked there I would have seen ist a couple times more perhaps, but it wouldn't have done anything for the box office, since i got in for free every time.

That's right. We spent a bundle on admission. Probably around $400, since most of it was IMAX. My husband went about 15 times, I guess.

But I can count on one hand the other movies I've seen at the cinema in the last two decades, so I feel OK about it.

Nemesis
X-Files
LOTR-ROTK
Harry Potter
Star Wars recut

I think that's it.

Wow. I've been to 38 movies this year alone.

 

[Jeri]

Wow. I've been to 38 movies this year alone.

I was way overdue. Fact is, though, I have a vision problem. For many years it was virtually impossible for me to watch video or read. I've been on the federal Talking Book program since 1990. I use adaptive software to make sound files off the internet and for books. About a decade ago, I started taking medication twice a day that helps my situation. When I go to see the movie, I have to plan to do nothing else with my eyes that day.

 

[MvRojo]

Wow. I've been to 38 movies this year alone.

I was way overdue. Fact is, though, I have a vision problem. For many years it was virtually impossible for me to watch video or read. I've been on the federal Talking Book program since 1990. I use adaptive software to make sound files off the internet and for books. About a decade ago, I started taking medication twice a day that helps my situation. When I go to see the movie, I have to plan to do nothing else with my eyes that day.

Oh ok, that's completely understandable then. I'm glad there's medication that helps.

 

[Borgminister]

Wow. I've been to 38 movies this year alone.

I was way overdue. Fact is, though, I have a vision problem. For many years it was virtually impossible for me to watch video or read. I've been on the federal Talking Book program since 1990. I use adaptive software to make sound files off the internet and for books. About a decade ago, I started taking medication twice a day that helps my situation. When I go to see the movie, I have to plan to do nothing else with my eyes that day.

Oh ok, that's completely understandable then. I'm glad there's medication that helps.

You are forgiven, Jeri..

 

[MvRojo]

Tuesday (6/30) Box Office - Trek #9 - $0.5 million - $247.3 million

TUESDAY BOX OFFICE

1. TRANSFORMERS 2 - 13,510,024 - 228,441,219
2. THE PROPOSAL - 3,287,320 - 75,205,432
3. THE HANGOVER - 2,749,356 - 188,381,740
4. UP - 2,571,769 - 254,967,154
5. MY SISTER'S KEEPER - 2,270,492 - 16,748,850
6. YEAR ONE - 1,082,850 - 34,652,410
7. THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 - 828,005 - 54,976,827
8. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM II - 754,033 - 164,739,568
9. STAR TREK - 526,347 - 247,306,259
10. AWAY WE GO - 235,990 - 4,534,622

Star Trek had another great day, dropping only 2% from last week (the best hold week-to-week in the Top 10), and increasing 17% from Monday's number (the film's best Monday-Tuesday change). Note that every film besides Tr2 increased from Monday.

International Number: $124,738,794
Global Number: $372,045,053

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Tuesday (6/30) Box Office - Trek #9 - $0.5 million - $247.3 millio

Wow!

It would be insane, given this continued performance, for Paramount to lower the theater count by much, wouldn't it?

If at all, even.

 

[MvRojo]

Re: Tuesday (6/30) Box Office - Trek #9 - $0.5 million - $247.3 millio

Wow!

It would be insane, given this continued performance, for Paramount to lower the theater count by much, wouldn't it?

If at all, even.

To be fair, NATM increased 27% from Monday, Pelham increased 21%, Up increased 19%, and everything else increased by smaller amounts. That and the second-lowest per theatre average also would tend to be marks against it. I am hoping that theatres abandon Pelham before dropping more Trek screens.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Re: Tuesday (6/30) Box Office - Trek #9 - $0.5 million - $247.3 millio

Awesome. I checked this morning, and sadly Star Trek has left my area. I would have thought with over 60 screens in the metro area, one of them would have kept Star Trek for the holiday weekend. It looks like I'll be checking out Transformers instead.

Maybe it'll make a limited return around here when some of these others drop off. Not likely, but I'll keep my eyes peeled.

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Tuesday (6/30) Box Office - Trek #9 - $0.5 million - $247.3 millio

Hopefully they will look at the week-to-week drop of only 2%, as opposed to the 21, 27 and 41% drops by Night, Pelham and One, respectively.

We'll see... Tomorrow, right?

 

[Cyrus]

It seems like Trek is losing quite a few theaters today with 2 new movies opening, and reduced number of showings in some other theaters.

 

[ParticleMan]

There are only two theaters within 40 miles of where I live still showing Trek, on one screen each. And one of those two is dropping Trek as of Friday. I need to arrange for one last hurrah before it goes completely away...

 

[Daneel]

Yeah, there's only one theatre in my city still showing the movie (but there are a few more in Toronto proper), so I guess it really is winding down now... although at this point, that's to be expected.

Still, $250 million is pretty much a lock now, and that's more than we could've ever asked for. And to think, a couple of weeks ago, I was skeptical that it would go that high.

 

[Borgminister]

It seems like Trek is losing quite a few theaters today with 2 new movies opening, and reduced number of showings in some other theaters.

Like MvRojo indicated, we can only hope that other faltering movies take more of a hit than Trek.

I mean, Paramount wants to maximize profits, don't they?

(rhetorical)