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Yep. They are now setup to make a mint.
Not like I'm helping them or anything...
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$35.5 Million more from overseas
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Yep. They are now setup to make a mint.
Not like I'm helping them or anything...
J.
So in fact this foreign opening is very impressive, especially for Star Trek.
I hope so I didn't know China was showing the movie just with there population were talking decent $$$. Japan is not a TREK country from what I've heard but Sulu is a character from there country and also being played by a Korean bodes well for South Korea market. I've heard theres a decent audience in Thailand.
Am still nervous but maybe we will easily break $100 million from reorts saying the numbers will only get stronger, I would love I mean love it IF star trek could reach $130 million worldwide minimum.
Also I am surprised it open stronger than Wolverine in the UK, looks like it set for a god UK Box office total maybe pass $20 million.
I was glad to do my part. As for this movie's 'legs', I keep reading that terrific word of mouth will bring in more non-fans in the second week. Wolverine had a 60% drop-off in one week. I'll be doing my part once again with my date on Thursday. Hope all of you will pitch in as well!
Japan is always a major market for films overseas. A good showing in Japan can add up to a lot of money.
Yeah, I can't say that comparing it to the 'previous gens' nadir (Nemesis) is exactly bolstering confidence.. or that it beat a movie that pretty much everyone agreed was completely much crap out of the gate (Wolverine).
Seriously, all snark aside, $75 million worldwide is actually a lot less than I would have figured for its opening weekend. Certainly doesn't bode well for the movie making its money back ($300M cost, remember)... I would have half-figured that the fanbois here would have shelled out that much.
But I guess all the reports of 'empty theatres' (even from fans here) are actually fairly telling...
You have no idea what you're talking about.
1) It's $75 million domestic, about $110 worldwide.
2) It's much MORE than PARAMOUNT figured for its opening weekend.
3) It only cost $140 million. Advertising is a lot, but at the outside, another 100 at most. So $240 million, which is far from $300.
4) But even if it was, movies with similar openings go on to make money far in excess of $300 million anyway. Trek won't have any trouble in this regard.
5) And just to put it in perspective further - domestically, this is Paramount's second highest opening weekend EVER for a live-action film, after Iron Man.
6) It has already handily beaten opening weekend for every previous Trek release; Nemesis is only being mentioned because it would've caused bad press, bringing this movie's total down. Not because anyone is excited that it's beating Nemesis. Of course it was going to beat Nemesis.
These are extremely impressive numbers, above all of the predictions of just about everyone in the industry, and easily enough to justify plenty of sequels.
Do some research before you freak out next time.
That much is certain where Vance's opinion on this sort of thing is concerned.
The folks who are desperately trying to spin this as anything other than an enormous success for the studio, at this point, keep demonstrating that they don't understand anything about the business aspects of this and are pretty much unfamiliar with recent box office data of any kind.
Funny post!!!
Correction....$112 MILLION worldwide, not $75 million. AND that's a lot more than I predicted, as well as many others including the Hollywood media pros. Not sure what your point is here, but ST making MORE than the top grossing ST film (STIV at $109 mill) ever in 4 days is pretty big news. Do you even have an idea what you are talking about??
RAMA
I am not liking any of the Money news yet. I highly Doubt we will pass 150 here and 100 everywhere else. Not looking good imo.
Again: you're completely, 100% wrong. Go play around BoxOfficeMojo.com for a while looking at movies with similar opening weekends.
For instance, Batman Begins opened on a Wednesday, took in $72 million by that Sunday, and went on to gross $205 million domestically.
That's pretty much set in stone now, they'll get at least that much. The real question is will they get over that much because it gains decent legs or will it fizzle? It's gotta wade through a battlefield but it has all the chance in the world to approach and surpass $300.
Star Trek will easily gross over $150 million here and over $100 million overseas. I have no doubt.
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Well I hope you guys are right.
We actually did research and backed up our opinions; no hope necessary, just don't make unwarranted assumptions.
But..... It did.
I'd say 112 million is roughly twice as much as 50 million. Can anyone with a mathematics degree check this for me?
