$25 million on Friday night

[Similitude]

Yes We Can!!!

 

[Borgminister]

Yes We Can!!!

Tear down this wall!

Okay, better stop with the politically charged stuff...

Oh, my boy... actually got 9 of his friends, 5 guys and 4 gals, to see it, not the handful I thought previously.

Hence the bump in the box office figures.

 

[FailedLurker]

I took my mom for Mother's Day, but we went on Saturday. She's an original fan from the original run of the original series, used to make dates take her home early on Friday nights so she could watch Trek, and she got me hooked because Trek reruns were always on when I was a kid. She never sees movies the first few weeks, she prefers a near-empty theater, and I'm not sure she ever even saw Insurrection or Nemesis in the theater. But for this movie she was there on Day 2, and when it was over we walked across the multiplex and saw it again.

I think I'll wait until at least next weekend to see it again, unless I decide to make the trip for Imax.

 

[ST-One]

But for this movie she was there on Day 2, and when it was over we walked across the multiplex and saw it again.

You should see my big smile right now.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Thursday and Friday's numbers - if they hold - put Star Trek at the top of the Trek movies in terms of opening weekend. The current winner is First Contact with $30,716,131.

You have to factor inflation, though.

 

[Jessop]

http://boxoffice.com/

^adjusted for inflation its still the best opener by far

Adjusted for inflation:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): $34,668,706 (opening weekend)/ $239,115,674 (cume)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): $35,038,451 / $192,290,437
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984): $35,629,102 / $163,237,856
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986): $32,671,686 / $212,328,919
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): $31,267,457 / $93,951,918
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991): $30,976,050 / $127,720,425
Star Trek: Generations (1994): $39,707,107 / $129,980,545
Star Trek: First Contact (1996): $49,896,339 / $149,493,266
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998): $33,761,058 / $107,451,468
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): $22,918,195 / $53,387,173

 

[Tulin]

$26.8 for Friday and $27.4 for Saturday.

So where is the person who said it would makes less on Saturday night?

Probably hiding far away, like this thread was.


Anyway - US$76.5m is INCREDIBLE!!!

 

[MvRojo]

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.

Well, they also do that since they don't get all the box office receipts (although they get a large percentage in the first couple weeks).

 

[chrisspringob]

$26.8 for Friday and $27.4 for Saturday.

So where is the person who said it would makes less on Saturday night?

Probably hiding far away, like this thread was.

If you mean me, this is what I said:

I don't get why you expect Saturday night to do less than Friday?

Because that's what happens with virtually every big "genre" movie on opening weekend, if it opens on a Friday. There's pent up demand, and lots of people rush out and watch it on Friday, and then it drops on Saturday. Look at The Dark Knight. Look at Twilight. Look at Quantum of Solace. Look at The Incredible Hulk. Look at Watchmen. Look at Wolverine.

All of them dropped from Friday to Saturday on their opening weekend. Now, granted, this case is a bit complicated because there were all those Thursday night previews. So some of that Friday business was diverted to Thursday. So, OK, it *might* go up on Saturday. But no way is it going to make more on Saturday than Thursday and Friday combined.

So I said that it seemed more likely to go down on Saturday, but because of the Thursday previews, business that might otherwise have taken place on Friday was diverted to Thursday, so it *might* go up on Saturday, but it wouldn't make more on Saturday than Thursday and Friday combined.

As it turned out, it did make (slightly) more on Saturday than Friday, but not more than Thursday and Friday combined. Keep in mind, the context of that whole discussion was that I was arguing against the notion that it was going to do so well on Saturday and Sunday that it might make more in opening weekend than Wolverine did last weekend.

So no reason for me to hide.