The Final Ongoing Star Trek Box Office Thread

[KingstonTrekker]

If you omit the disappointing overseas take, TREK looks even mightier than it already is. HAD the movie reached 700 or 800 million worldwide we might actually have looked at a potential Best Picture nomination even if it stood no shot of ever actually winning.

Sigh. Comments about Trek's "disappointing overseas take" just keep showing up on here. Various other threads have discussed how $125+ million actually far exceeded Paramount's expectations (which were for $100 million tops overseas.) Trek is not a well-known or popular commodity outside of North America and a few other countries. Hence, it is unfair to compare it to other internationally popular franchises such as Harry Potter and Transformers. I posted a link to an article a couple of weeks ago which quoted a Paramount exec as stating that they were very happy with the film's overseas performance.

Perhaps this new article, which was just posted on TrekWeb, will help convince people that this movie was an "unqualified blockbuster" for Trek.

http://trekmovie.com/2009/07/29/via...ed-blockbuster-as-film-reaches-380m-globally/

 

[KingstonTrekker]

Oops...the article link is actually from TrekMovie not TrekWeb.

 

[Blue_Trek]

Sigh. Comments about Trek's "disappointing overseas take" just keep showing up on here.

It is what it is, and we feel the way we feel on it.
That ain't changing.

That being said, it is the ONLY area I had by expectations let down with Trek 09, which has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the movie.

But if Viacom is happy with what it did worldwide, then I am happy too.
Because I think that means we should be getting at least 2 more Trek movies now.

 

[Jax]

No other trek movie makes anywhere near too what ST has made either domestic or oversea's and we feel were entitled to a 200 million plus gross oversea's. Wolverine made more oversea's and yet still fell behind in the WW total and studios get more money from a domestic ticket thab a international one right ???

out of all the movies that come out each and every year a fair amount fail to make 100 million oversea's so I'll take $125 for a supposed DEAD franchise.

 

[Stardate]

No other trek movie makes anywhere near too what ST has made either domestic or oversea's.

Actually if we adjust box office numbers for ST:TMP and compare it to STO9. We can see they are pretty close. ST:TMP retains the top spot because it did better in foreign market then STO9.

1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Domestic: $82.3 mil + Foreign: $56.7 mil = $139.0 mil
Adjusted for predicted 2009 inflation: Domestic: $239.1 mil + Foreign: $164.4 mil = $403.5 million

2. Star Trek: Star Trek: Domestic: 254.2 mil + Foreign $ 125.7 mil = $379.9 million

 

[Cyrus]

International boxoffice is now $125,833,447, so the movie is now officially over $380 million worldwide.

 

[Daneel]

^^^^
Awesome news.

Star Trek took in $85,128 on Wednesday, up 5.4% from Tuesday, and its per screen average was $277, which is the highest non-weekend per screen average the film has had since July 2nd. Yes, it accomplished the same thing on Tuesday, but now Wednesday has that achievement beat.

Domestic total is now $254,255,507. Worldwide, as Cyrus indicated, is now $380,088,954.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

You know, the "adjusted for inflation" numbers on box office are essentially a stunt, a made-up number with very little relevance other than possible usefulness in carrying on a bar room argument. The adjust-and-compare process basically assumes that all else other than the value of money is equal over time, when in fact the economics of the entertainment industry have changed in all kinds of ways.

Paramount has already made more money, in real terms, on this film than on any previous Star Trek movie and they stand to make scads more in the next six months as it's released in formats and into venues that didn't exist in 1979 or 1982 or 1990...

 

[KingstonTrekker]

You know, the "adjusted for inflation" numbers on box office are essentially a stunt, a made-up number with very little relevance other than possible usefulness in carrying on a bar room argument.

Agreed. And as you also mentioned, DVD sales, rentals, etc. did not exist in 1979/1980. Back then, if you wanted to see a movie, you needed to see it in the theatre. Not so anymore; as a result, watch out for deluge of money that Star Trek 09 will make come Novembe when it is released on DVD, Blue-Ray, etc. for rental and/or purchase...

 

[Garth Rockett]

You know, the "adjusted for inflation" numbers on box office are essentially a stunt, a made-up number with very little relevance other than possible usefulness in carrying on a bar room argument.

And given that a message board is essentially the virtual equivalent of a bar room in terms of the level of conversational discourse, it would seem a completely appropriate topic for this thread....

 

[Borgminister]

^^^^
Awesome news.

Star Trek took in $85,128 on Wednesday, up 5.4% from Tuesday, and its per screen average was $277, which is the highest non-weekend per screen average the film has had since July 2nd. Yes, it accomplished the same thing on Tuesday, but now Wednesday has that achievement beat.

Domestic total is now $254,255,507. Worldwide, as Cyrus indicated, is now $380,088,954.

I like your spin on the box office take, even as the numbers dwindle.

Maybe this continued per-theater performance will stop the theater count from dropping further...

Edit: Never mind, the count is going down 79 to 228.

Inexplicably, theater count for Terminator Salvation is going up 176 to 324.

No comprende.

 

[Daneel]

Alas, it doesn't look like that's the case. Star Trek is losing 79 more theatres tomorrow, down to 228.

 

[Jeri]

I feel really lucky we have one of them.

 

[pookha]

^^^^
Awesome news.

Star Trek took in $85,128 on Wednesday, up 5.4% from Tuesday, and its per screen average was $277, which is the highest non-weekend per screen average the film has had since July 2nd. Yes, it accomplished the same thing on Tuesday, but now Wednesday has that achievement beat.

Domestic total is now $254,255,507. Worldwide, as Cyrus indicated, is now $380,088,954.

I like your spin on the box office take, even as the numbers dwindle.

Maybe this continued per-theater performance will stop the theater count from dropping further...

Edit: Never mind, the count is going down 79 to 228.

Inexplicably, theater count for Terminator Salvation is going up 176 to 324.

No comprende.

i suspect terminator salvation is going to more discuont and second run theatres while star trek is still hanging in some first run.

terminator has been out of our first run threatres for a week or so.

 

[Borgminister]

^^^^
Awesome news.

Star Trek took in $85,128 on Wednesday, up 5.4% from Tuesday, and its per screen average was $277, which is the highest non-weekend per screen average the film has had since July 2nd. Yes, it accomplished the same thing on Tuesday, but now Wednesday has that achievement beat.

Domestic total is now $254,255,507. Worldwide, as Cyrus indicated, is now $380,088,954.

I like your spin on the box office take, even as the numbers dwindle.

Maybe this continued per-theater performance will stop the theater count from dropping further...

Edit: Never mind, the count is going down 79 to 228.

Inexplicably, theater count for Terminator Salvation is going up 176 to 324.

No comprende.

i suspect terminator salvation is going to more discuont and second run theatres while star trek is still hanging in some first run.

terminator has been out of our first run threatres for a week or so.

That makes sense... so Star Trek has that "run" to look forward to as well.

Maybe 260 isn't too far-fetched, eventually.

 

[Therin of Andor]

If you omit the disappointing overseas take.

Beyond expectations is not "disappointing".

 

[Jax]

No other trek movie makes anywhere near too what ST has made either domestic or oversea's.

Actually if we adjust box office numbers for ST:TMP and compare it to STO9. We can see they are pretty close. ST:TMP retains the top spot because it did better in foreign market then STO9.

1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Domestic: $82.3 mil + Foreign: $56.7 mil = $139.0 mil
Adjusted for predicted 2009 inflation: Domestic: $239.1 mil + Foreign: $164.4 mil = $403.5 million

2. Star Trek: Star Trek: Domestic: 254.2 mil + Foreign $ 125.7 mil = $379.9 million

Adjusting is a little unfair since there totally different decades and these days you have so many factors like choice of other entertainment and pirating/internet. TMP would never of made the same amount in a similar time as what ST09 has done.

 

[MvRojo]

If you omit the disappointing overseas take.

Beyond expectations is not "disappointing".

To be fair, apparently at least some at Paramount did think it was going to get to $150 million international after the first couple weekends. That was a lofty prospect even at that point though.

 

[WarMaster1701]

Got to love peoples never ending bitching. This film saved the franchise

 

[MvRojo]

Got to love peoples never ending bitching. This film saved the franchise

I'm just being objective, and showing how there are two different perspectives and support for both. I'm happy with how the film did and just like talking about the numbers (as evidenced by the 30+ box office threads I started).