$25 million on Friday night

[btflash]

i was hoping it would do better than wolverine.boxoffice mojo says it made 24 mil on fri . so, wolverine at 37 mil last fri did about 50% more business . im very surprised .hope trek doesnt die the way superman returns did at the box office.

 

[slappy]

-ST fans were more excited about a ST movie so they may have preordered more, while casual fans just show up.

And comic book fans aren't excited about a movie starring the most popular mutant of all time? I dunno...

 

[Cyrus]

hope trek doesnt die the way superman returns did at the box office.

I think SR made $200 million, which is better than any James Bond movie. I wouldn't call that dying at the box office.

 

[USS Gettysburg]

You know you guys should be more pumped about this. Star Trek is tracking like Iron Man. (I know I know, not completely, but pretty darn close) That's awesome.

 

[Lynn Minmay]

i was hoping it would do better than wolverine.boxoffice mojo says it made 24 mil on fri . so, wolverine at 37 mil last fri did about 50% more business . im very surprised .hope trek doesnt die the way superman returns did at the box office.

...but that movie was a shitty mess.

 

[Lynn Minmay]

You know you guys should be more pumped about this. Star Trek is tracking like Iron Man. (I know I know, not completely, but pretty darn close) That's awesome.

What does that mean exactly? Tracking?

 

[USS Gettysburg]

What does that mean exactly? Tracking?

It is following a similar pattern to a movie that had very long legs. Sometimes you don't really want a movie to blow it all on the opening weekend. Iron Man didn't.

Take a look here: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=ironman.htm

Iron Man:
Thursday: $3,500,000
Friday: $35,234,361
Saturday: $37,350,099
Sunday: $26,034,208

Compared to here: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=startrek11.htm

Star Trek:
(estimates)
Thursday: $7,000,000
Friday: $24,000,000

You can account for the slide of more times open on Thursday compared to IM. So that increased totals for Thursday and reduce them for Friday on Trek. The good news out of that is can't you really take a bit of the total from Friday and add it to what Saturday should get?

A little lower for ST but, hopefully it is the beginning of the same pattern.

 

[LutherSloan]

I thought I heard on the radio that it made $31 million yesterday, although I guess they could be counting the Thursday showings...

 

[USS Gettysburg]

I thought I heard on the radio that it made $31 million yesterday, although I guess they could be counting the Thursday showings...

Yup, that is.

 

[Finnegan]

I aint taking my mum on Mother's Day.

The bitch used to make fun of me for liking ST so she can pay the $12 and go see the fucking thing herself.

Aww......that is so sweet!

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Excellent news. I'm really pleased it's doing so well. J.J. is The Man.

 

[Jax]

The studio doesn't count advertising costs when factoring their return.

I believe they do. The rule of thumb has always been that they want double their budget back to encompass the marketing costs.

No the movie companies have marketing in a different bracket because its paid in different ways I need to find a decent google explanation. Doublt is $300 million Trek is on course to beat that barrier come grand total time anyway.

 

[btflash]

hope trek doesnt die the way superman returns did at the box office.

I think SR made $200 million, which is better than any James Bond movie. I wouldn't call that dying at the box office.

yeah,you wouldnt call it dying but the studio sure did! it also cost 270 million to make and was such a "hit" the proposed sequel was cancelled!

 

[btflash]

i was hoping it would do better than wolverine.boxoffice mojo says it made 24 mil on fri . so, wolverine at 37 mil last fri did about 50% more business . im very surprised .hope trek doesnt die the way superman returns did at the box office.

...but that movie was a shitty mess.

that "shitty mess" still had an almost 80% positive rating on rt.

 

[Garrovick]

Sounds like a good start on recouping that 160 million budget.

Waiting for week end two to see if it has legs.

 

[Similitude]

I'm sure many of them changed their minds. I liked SR when it first came out, but now thinking about it just makes me angry.

 

[Jax]

Sounds like a good start on recouping that 160 million budget.

Waiting for week end two to see if it has legs.

150 not 160

 

[Michael Chris]

Whooooo!

 

[chrisspringob]

So there's apparently a lot of confusion out there about the exact numbers for both Thursday and Friday, with different sources reporting slightly different numbers. Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo tries to add some clarity:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2584&p=.htm

On Friday, Star Trek blasted off with an estimated $24 million on approximately 7,400 screens at 3,849 sites (which included 138 IMAX venues). Counting an estimated $7 million* from Thursday night previews, the tally is $31 million in effectively a day and a half, according to distributor Paramount Pictures. Unadjusted, that's more than any previous Star Trek movie grossed in an entire opening weekend, edging out Star Trek: First Contact's $30.7 million.

At its current trajectory, the new Star Trek is headed for an opening weekend north of $60 million, not including the Thursday previews (because the weekend is counted as Friday to Sunday). That would not only be the biggest-grossing opening weekend for a Star Trek movie, but also the most attended (albeit from far more theaters than any previous Trek). First Contact was the benchmark, which debuted to around $50 million adjusted for ticket price inflation at 2,812 theaters. While the previous movie in the franchise, Star Trek: Nemesis, was a dud, all of the other movies had the equivalent of $30-million-plus starts adjusted.
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* Note: This figure will be revised on Monday with a more accurate estimate. It is not clear at this time whether the $7 million includes midnight showings or not, but that is the estimate from Paramount. Grosses from midnight showings and beyond would be counted as part of the Friday gross, so the Friday gross might actually be higher (and the Thursday previews lower). Regardless of how that shakes out, the total for the first day and a half is still as much as $31 million (though there are indications that it's as much as seven percent lower).

So we have a ballpark idea of how it did on Thursday and Friday, but that's open to revision. Saturday numbers might leak out within a few hours.

 

[Borgminister]

Oh jeez, you mean my stomach still has to churn?