You need to compensate for inflation. In today’s dollars, all first four films made over 100 million domestically.
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You need to compensate for inflation. In today’s dollars, all first four films made over 100 million domestically.
WOW $200 million for a budget? That is ALOT of money. It will have to be one of the most successful Sci-fi movies of all time to make a profit with that huge budget!
I am not sure is completely accurate in its figures. The production budget (the budget we all commonly refer to) is reportedly closer $130 Million according to TrekMovie. This article was written 4 months before Paramount moved the release date, which could have also changed the planned promotional budget from what they would have done for a Christmas release to what they would have done for a summer tentpole release. $200 Million total is pretty well what I was expecting when you combine both budgets, if not more.
I like to look at actual examples rather than trying to calculate this stuff myself. The production budget of Spider-man 3 was about $260 million. That's before ads. That movie literally cost twice as much as STXI.
It made about $320 domestic, and $890 mil total. If we assume all other things are proportional, with the ads for SM3 costing twice as much as STXI, then STXI needs to make half of that: $445 mil total, and at least 200 mil domestic.
That would make it proportionally as successful as SM3, which is considered a success, and SM4 is in the works I think.
It made about $320 domestic, and $890 mil total. If we assume all other things are proportional, with the ads for SM3 costing twice as much as STXI, then STXI needs to make half of that: $445 mil total, and at least 200 mil domestic.
That would make it proportionally as successful as SM3, which is considered a success, and SM4 is in the works I think.
Yes, but 200 Million is not the budget, it's 150. When referring to "budget", one does not include ad money or anything else. 150 million is a pretty middle of road tentpole movie number. It could be much larger, or somewhat smaller. Trek doesn't even have the largest budget of sci-fi movies of this summer.
I'm sure others have mentioned this before.
Adjusting for inflation, the first 4 Star Trek movies were big hits.
In today's dollar, TMP and TVH both took more than $200mil; and TWOK and TSFS both took about $175mil domestically.
After that, there was been a steady decline.
Why? Well, in the early days there were no video and certainly no DVDs.
Star Trek on TV was limited to TOS reruns.
And Kirk & Co kicked universal butt.
People saw the movies again and again. Today, we see it once and then wait for the special edition DVD.
Interestingly, the budget for TMP (about $45mil in 1979) equates to about $135mil in today's dollar.
TMP went on to make (according to IMDB) $139mil worldwide, or about $430mil in today's dollar.
I fervently wish ST11 can at least match those numbers.
Cheers
photon70
If that's true then, that makes me feel much better and believe that this Trek can make $150-200 in the US alone and then worldwide total should bring in similar numbers. Paramount will be happy with $300 especially since any sequels will probably cost less since stuff like ENT sets can re re-used etc.
Funny, when I saw the trailer at the Bond movie, the response was surprise and "that looks good", so I suppose it depends on what movie you were at, doesn't it?
IOW, this isn't even weak anecdotal evidence.
And I'd rather see ST than any of those films mentioned above. Your point being?
Well as long as you see it.
If a movie season is 13 weeks (as in 4 x 13 weeks = 52), you could watch all six movie, a fortnight apart. You could even see your favourites twice or more, if you go to the movies once a week.
ST-One
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Are you afraid Star Trek might hurt these other movies?
Seriously, why do you want Star Trek to fail?
Now I'm probably the least big trek fan around this forum when it comes jumping up and down to watch any form of trek at all. As said in other threads I love the setting, have a general dislike for most onscreen presentations of the setting. For my fix: www.ditl.org has all the information I enjoy about trek, setting details.
However, this is one movie I will be seeing first.
terminator and wolverine I do want to see, but work and social life have priority there. I can wait for these to come out on DVD. However depending on how work is at the time, I could possibly expect the same result for the trek movie: wait for dvd.
However I'm rpetty sure I could fit Trek and terminator in.
And by waiting for dvd...here's where I just borrow the dvd's from people...I rarely have ever spent bucks on dvd's of singular movies. Only series boxed sets (non-trek series)
However, this is one movie I will be seeing first.
terminator and wolverine I do want to see, but work and social life have priority there. I can wait for these to come out on DVD. However depending on how work is at the time, I could possibly expect the same result for the trek movie: wait for dvd.
However I'm rpetty sure I could fit Trek and terminator in.
And by waiting for dvd...here's where I just borrow the dvd's from people...I rarely have ever spent bucks on dvd's of singular movies. Only series boxed sets (non-trek series)
Oh this is going to be fun.
I've already made my prediction in another thread.
I'm rarely wrong when it comes to things in the gaming or movie markets.
When the naysayers soil themselves because of how successful this
film is I'll be laughing my ass off.
I've already made my prediction in another thread.
I'm rarely wrong when it comes to things in the gaming or movie markets.
When the naysayers soil themselves because of how successful this
film is I'll be laughing my ass off.
^Burn the heretic! 
It staggers me to see that there are so many people here, who post on a Trek BBS every day, who seemingly aren't fans of ST.
It staggers me to see that there are so many people here, who post on a Trek BBS every day, who seemingly aren't fans of ST.
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