Star Trek - $43M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $148M - Global at $218 M

[MvRojo]

Yeah, but it was released around the same time as the last book and probably benefited from all that hype that was built up. I'm just not convinced people care as much anymore about the saga since we all know how it ends. Look I'm not saying it won't make a ton of money...just call me a skeptic.

I actually don't know how it ends since I've avoided finding out since I don't have the time to read them (and don't you DARE ruin it for me).

I guess I understand what you're saying, but I still think HP6 will easily clear $275 million. You could have made the same argument that people knew how LOTR or the SW prequels ended and all those movies weren't affected by that fact.

 

[Squiggy]

Forget the kids.

A ticket is a ticket.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Excitement will likely build as the saga draws to its cinematic conclusion (and the books having come to a conclusion won't impede that, anymore than knowing how LOTR ends did with that film series). To each his own, but I think the Potter series is one where skepticism is a poor bet and placing your money on a continued stellar box office is a very safe bet.

 

[MvRojo]

HP also has the benefit of IMAX for an unlimited amount of time since its the last planned movie on IMAX until November.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Yeah, but it was released around the same time as the last book and probably benefited from all that hype that was built up. I'm just not convinced people care as much anymore about the saga since we all know how it ends. Look I'm not saying it won't make a ton of money...just call me a skeptic.

I actually don't know how it ends since I've avoided finding out since I don't have the time to read them (and don't you DARE ruin it for me).

Honestly, I'd read the book because it's really a solid ending and there's no way the movie can do it justice.

It's one of those rare instances where the ending lives up to the hype, imo.

 

[Jolantru]

My guess is the movie will end up somewhere just over the 200 mil mark. It will be the highest grossing Star Trek film, even when adjusted for inflation.

This is really a good mark to set the second film in motion. Really if you look at it, Batman Begins did about the same as this movie looks to do, and that set a great stage for the Dark Knight. Batman Begins would have done better, but alot of people were turned off to Batman, by the campy Joel Schumaker films in the late 90's.

Just the same I think initially there wasn't alot of response because so many people thought Star Trek was dead. Now that this movie was a success, and with all the positive reviews, the next film has a chance to break new territory. I just hope they will have a great script, and a great cast for the next one.

 

[anothertrekfan]

The next movie will make $600 Million.

 

[Skywalker]

The next movie will make $600 Million.

On opening weekend.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Now let's not get crazy.

 

[Cyrus]

The stocks for Star Trek (and the inevitable sequel) keep going up on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, while T4 and Angels & Demons stocks are dropping:

http://www.hsx.com/

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

My guess is the movie will end up somewhere just over the 200 mil mark. It will be the highest grossing Star Trek film, even when adjusted for inflation.

Adjusting for ticket price inflation, it'll have to gross over $240 million domestic to be the highest grossing Trek film.

 

[Similitude]

Order Of The Phoenix will do at minimum $275 Million.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Order Of The Phoenix will do at minimum $275 Million.

Order of the Phoenix was the last film. The next one is The Half-Blood Prince.

 

[Similitude]

Wow and I'm a Major Potter fan. No Idea how I messed that up lol.

 

[Borgminister]

Just got back from the IMAX showing at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco with my son, and all I can say is--spectacular... My third viewing, first in IMAX, and there is no doubt this movie is much more satisfying in IMAX.

The scene after "fire everything" when the Big E appears guns blazing to save the day just absolutely took my breath away, along with many others of course.

I don't know what the capacity of that theater is--let's say between 600-1000 seats--but I'd say 95% sold out. At 1.30 in the afternoon on a beautiful, cloudless, sunny, 75 degree day.

How's THAT for legs?

Film was followed by a round of applause.

Then, we crossed the street to the Bloomingdale mall to puchase a pair of shoes for my son; turns out some of the youngsters (18-21) working there were talking about the movie.

Unprompted! And ... NOT NERDS!

 

[photon70]

Re: STAR TREK was down one to No. 2 with $43 million in the US Box Of

FYI, Star Trek's 43% drop (or 57% hold, depending on how you look at it) is a summer blockbuster's best hold in 3 years.

 

[zambingo]

Re: STAR TREK was down one to No. 2 with $43 million in the US Box Of

43 mil is only 5 millions behind Hanky's new film on it's firsts weekends. LOL Ultimate Trek FTW. 200 domestic here it comes.

 

[donners22]

Re: Star Trek - $42M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $147M - Global Nears $200M

I disagree... I think it is internally coherent. It might be the way that it's connected to Star Trek's past that turns off foreign audiences. Evidently Star Trek is not as popular elsewhere. Perhaps if Abrams had done a reboot it would have done better.

Trust me, it is regarded as a reboot and has been reviewed and publicised as such.

Internal coherency (which is debatable) does not make it in any way sophisticated. It is very much a film with action, humour and effects over logic and big ideas. I have nothing against it, but would never regard it as sophisticated.

And ST 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 are sophisticated? Not sure whether u consider any of the other trek films sophisticated compared to this one but this one was light years ahead of the other ones.....
TWOK is considered the best, but the motion picture is the only movie in the franchise dealing with logic and "big ideas"...and suffered big time as a result

Never said they were, just that I would not regard this film as particularly sophisticated, nor would I regard that as the reason for the relatively poor performance outside the US. I just found the original comment contradictory in addition to making an odd excuse for the performance.

The overall performance is terrific, but one wonders just how good it could have been if it had wider appeal. No doubt the producers of the next film will be thinking of a way to reach that wider market.

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Star Trek - $42M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $147M - Global Nears $200M

The overall performance is terrific, but one wonders just how good it could have been if it had wider appeal. No doubt the producers of the next film will be thinking of a way to reach that wider market.

First of all, "sophisticated" is a word I probably dislike as much as I used to hate the word "maturity". What the hell can it mean other than being superior in some way...?

As to the "wider market", are you joking? This movie has certainly reached that wider market you allude to... and that wider market will be chomping at the bit for another movie that includes the elements from this one without getting too damned...

"sophisticated".

(i.e., "pedantic")

 

[donners22]

Re: Star Trek - $42M 2nd Weekend - Domestic $147M - Global Nears $200M

The overall performance is terrific, but one wonders just how good it could have been if it had wider appeal. No doubt the producers of the next film will be thinking of a way to reach that wider market.

First of all, "sophisticated" is a word I probably dislike as much as I used to hate the word "maturity". What the hell can it mean other than being superior in some way...?

As to the "wider market", are you joking? This movie has certainly reached that wider market you allude to... and that wider market will be chomping at the bit for another movie that includes the elements from this one without getting too damned...

"sophisticated".

(i.e., "pedantic")

I noted that Star Trek had taken about 30% of its gross outside the US (25% at Box Office Mojo currently, but I think they haven't updated some international markets). I'll quote the post that responded to that.

International markets do better with big stupid action pictures. I think that's what they want out of Hollywood. Sophisticated movies don't make as much.

I'm using the word "sophisticated" in response to that. I don't think this film is dramatically more "sophisticated" than others to explain that gap on its own (even if I believed that were a valid reason for the disparity).

As for the wider market, I'm referring to markets outside the US. Wolverine and Iron Man made about the same and more than Star Trek respectively, but each had around 50% outside the US. Since Star Trek only has about 30%, that's a significant untapped market.