Star Trek Brings In $7 Million Thursday Night

[MvRojo]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Star Trek Nemesis also made 7 million (on a Friday though, with 2,700 screens).

Noted. That's just sad Nemesis, sad. More Trekkers showed on Thursday's two time slots (7pms and 9pms) compared to a nationwide Friday for Nemesis. Thank you very much Berman.

So the 7 million reflects 7 and 9 pm, not the 12.01 showing?

It reflects both the Thursday evening and the midnight showings.

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Noted. That's just sad Nemesis, sad. More Trekkers showed on Thursday's two time slots (7pms and 9pms) compared to a nationwide Friday for Nemesis. Thank you very much Berman.

So the 7 million reflects 7 and 9 pm, not the 12.01 showing?

It reflects both the Thursday evening and the midnight showings.

Ah, okay... thanks. Not too shabby, but it remains nail-biting time until Monday a.m.

 

[MvRojo]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

So the 7 million reflects 7 and 9 pm, not the 12.01 showing?

It reflects both the Thursday evening and the midnight showings.

Ah, okay... thanks. Not too shabby, but it remains nail-biting time until Monday a.m.

It won't take that long. By tomorrow morning, we should have a rough idea of how the movie will do for the weekend, give or take a couple million.

 

[Borgminister]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

It reflects both the Thursday evening and the midnight showings.

Ah, okay... thanks. Not too shabby, but it remains nail-biting time until Monday a.m.

It won't take that long. By tomorrow morning, we should have a rough idea of how the movie will do for the weekend, give or take a couple million.

True, but I'm also thinking of that "multiplier"... isn't that Friday divided into Friday/Sat/Sun? Then times the weekend take for final box office prediction?

I'm probably way off base...

 

[DaveyNY]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

ST opened at 7pm on Thursday. It has already made 7m which is a great number. IM only did like 1.5 million

ROTS had midnight showings and all of Thursday. Plus its SW

But Star Trek is Star Trek, is it not? Or are you implying that Trek doesn't have the pizazz, panache, and sex appeal of Star Wars?

It does now... Big Time...

 

[Hober Mallow]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...on-at-box-office-rips-wolverine-opening-.html

"Star Trek" is on its way to a huge opening weekend.

Paramount's reboot of the classic franchise grossed between $7 million and $8 million from Thursday evening and midnight shows, according to knowledgeable industry source. That's bigger than last year's "Iron Man," which sold about $5 million of tickets on a comparable Thursday opening and went on to make $102.1 million by Sunday.

More notably, one person with access to box-office data said today that "Star Trek" had already sold about $3 million worth of tickets by this morning. That's twice as big as "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which opened to $85 million, at the same point last week.

However, given the franchise's devoted base of hard-core fans, sales for the earliest shows don't necessarily mean the movie will go on to be as big as "Iron Man." But it's now looking very likely it will warp past tracking that indicated it would make between $65 million and $75 million.

Even distribution executives at competing studios, who usually remain nonplussed about competitors' performances, were uniformly impressed by the early returns.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b12...m_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

The revamped Star Trek grossed an estimated $7 million from Thursday night screenings.

But hold on to your pointy ears.

"Just about everybody who's seen it thinks it's going to make $100 million [this weekend]," Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said today. "And just about everybody who [doesn't have much] interest in it thinks it's going to do $60 million."

According to Bock, the film's Thursday take puts the sci-fi action movie on course for the more widely expected $60 million to $70 million weekend debut. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Or its Thursday performance, which was twice as big as the $3.5 million Iron Man took in from its opening-night Thursday shows last May.

Said Bock: "It's definitely a solid number…And it still leaves the weekend pretty wide open."

 

[pookha]

thing of it is i think this thing is going to have some decent staying power.
so many of the people i have talked to have said they are going back.

it may settle in after the big drop after the first week most films have and bring in a steady amount of money for awhile.

 

[MvRojo]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Ah, okay... thanks. Not too shabby, but it remains nail-biting time until Monday a.m.

It won't take that long. By tomorrow morning, we should have a rough idea of how the movie will do for the weekend, give or take a couple million.

True, but I'm also thinking of that "multiplier"... isn't that Friday divided into Friday/Sat/Sun? Then times the weekend take for final box office prediction?

I'm probably way off base...

Nah, the multiplier (at least how I always see it used), is the FINAL BOX OFFICE divided by the OPENING WEEKEND.

 

[HamTard]

I saw it twice. First in IMAX Thursday, then in a normal cinema Friday. I think I've had enough until the Blu-ray extended cut.

 

[Lynn Minmay]

That's great.

I'll be seeing it twice this week.

Maybe in IMAX the second go around.

 

[miraclefan]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Hi all,

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/08...ay-night-previews-deliver-a-possible-65m-75m/

This article relates the reasons behind Thursday's takings.

The key thing is Paramount has not advertised the Thursday opening, conitnuing to market a Friday opening.

Given this fact, its saying the Thursday number are good!

Still, lets not count our photon torpedoes before they hatch.

Cheers

photon70

Don't you mean ''let's not count our photon torpedoes before there fired? Anywho.. I agree these are good numbers for a thursday, considering paramount really didn't promote the Thursday nite opening!

 

[Tim]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

So how much is the norm for an early Thursday opening?
I have no idea if this number is good or bad...

I saw a 10:40 pm showing on Thursday, and the theatre was only about 15% full, which was a bit surprising.

 

[NCC74894A]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

ST opened at 7pm on Thursday. It has already made 7m which is a great number. IM only did like 1.5 million

ROTS had midnight showings and all of Thursday. Plus its SW

But Star Trek is Star Trek, is it not? Or are you implying that Trek doesn't have the pizazz, panache, and sex appeal of Star Wars?

No i'm not SW right now just appeals to more people. This new film is changing that.

That, and the unmitigated suckiness of Clone Wars.

 

[Kpnuts]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Isn't this a bit worrying?

 

[Squiggy]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Obviously most people will be going today and tomorrow. I went to the showing at 10:15 AM this morning myself, and there were 30 people in the theater with me. For where I live, that is a lot of people on a Friday morning at 10 AM.

What if most people choose to go on Sunday, to take Mom to the movies. Won't that skew your prediction?

Nothing says "I love you mom" like Star Trek.

Isn't this a bit worrying?

Since Nemesis made 7 times that all together. No.

 

[Michael Chris]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Isn't this a bit worrying?

Not really..

 

[Amaris]

Re: Deadline Hollywood : ST makes US$7m on Thursday

Obviously most people will be going today and tomorrow. I went to the showing at 10:15 AM this morning myself, and there were 30 people in the theater with me. For where I live, that is a lot of people on a Friday morning at 10 AM.

What if most people choose to go on Sunday, to take Mom to the movies. Won't that skew your prediction?

I took my mom to the movie tonight. She got me into Star Trek in the first place, when I was 4. She's a hardcore TOS Trekkie. She loved the movie. I mean, she loved the movie, particularly Chris Pine's Captain Kirk, and of course Bruce Greenwood as Captain Pike.

Oh, and for the record, I loved the movie, too!

J.

 

[chrisspringob]

"Sources" are now telling Nikki that it looks like ST has made about $25 million on Friday (so $32 million total from Thu+Fri):

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/weekend-prediction-star-trek-65m/

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Nikki Finke is also reporting that Star Trek is playing to much, much bigger international numbers than previous Trek films. Its opening numbers in the UK, Australia and Germany are reportedly almost as high as Wolverine's.

 

[chrisspringob]

By the end of the day on Saturday, Trek will presumably have grossed as much $ as Nemesis did in its entire run.