"Star Trek" over $100 million today

[Blue_Trek]

Remember strong word of mouth gives a good second weekend, this week at work I was telling everybody, how good it was, most said they want to see it, next chance for them is this weekend. The general movie goer isn't' really interested in Angels & Demons.
Then T4 hits and it's all downhill from there.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

This movie should have passed 100 Million Domestic on Monday. I fear this coming weekend.

None of this is actually based on any real information about or familiarity with movie box office performance, is it?

BTW, FX just shelled out 24 million dollars for 2011 broadcast rights to the movie. Add that to the big pile of money that Paramount executives are giddily flinging themselves onto this week.

 

[anothertrekfan]

T4 will definitely put a hamper on things. I am actually going to see T4 opening weekend.

 

[Squiggy]

Whatever the ad budget was for this movie it had to be above average... I don't think another $150 million is an unrealistic figure. There was a bombardment of TV advertising for months on both cable and network tv, the Superbowl ad ($3 million?), the various tie -ins like the Verizon thing, Burger King, etc... and that's just in the United States.

TV advertising is dirt cheap now. Spots on Comedy Central and SciFi are even cheaper.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

They have $50 million to go. The budget was $150 million.

As long as they make $150,000,000.01, this movie will be considered a huge success!

This fact cannot be refuted! (So don't try.)

Which they'd have to make half as much again.

The production budget was $150m. The advertising budget was likely -like most movies- half that again.

No, they just have to make one extra penny and everybody wins.

 

[firefox390]

I hear that the reviews for "Angels & Demons" are not so great.
I wouldn't worry about it so much.

 

[Trekker4747]

As long as they make $150,000,000.01, this movie will be considered a huge success!

This fact cannot be refuted! (So don't try.)

Which they'd have to make half as much again.

The production budget was $150m. The advertising budget was likely -like most movies- half that again.

No, they just have to make one extra penny and everybody wins.

Sigh.

The MOVIE cost $150m. Then they likely spent half that again to advertise it. Total cost: $225m.

If they made "just one penny" over that. The movie would be a disapointment. Because it only broke even.

They'd want to movie to make a profit to win. Profit meaning, money OVER what they put in to it.

(Which they likely will do after marketing tie-ins and DVD sales.)

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Star Trek will probably pull in around 35 million dollars this weekend, which will be just fine.

 

[Lumen]

I'm hoping for over $40 million. Hopefully that's not unrealistic.

 

[The]

I hear that the reviews for "Angels & Demons" are not so great.
I wouldn't worry about it so much.

And that's what Tom Hanks gets for GIVING UP COMEDY!!!







Which he should make up for by playing Zephram Cochrane in this new timeline...

 

[USSPhilippi]

As long as they make $150,000,000.01, this movie will be considered a huge success!

This fact cannot be refuted! (So don't try.)

Which they'd have to make half as much again.

The production budget was $150m. The advertising budget was likely -like most movies- half that again.

No, they just have to make one extra penny and everybody wins.

No, because the theaters get a cut of the revenue. Thus, Trek passed $100 million domestic today, but only about $50-$60 million of that (I think) actually goes to Paramount.

 

[Skywalker]

Star Trek will probably pull in around 35 million dollars this weekend, which will be just fine.

I'm guessing $40ish million, which is a sub-50% drop and would be more than respectable. A&D will win the weekend, but it'll do probably $20 million less than Star Trek.

 

[Trekker4747]

I hear that the reviews for "Angels & Demons" are not so great.
I wouldn't worry about it so much.

And that's what Tom Hanks gets for GIVING UP COMEDY!!!

Philadelphia

Forrest Gump

Apollo 13

I'd take a million of those over another Joe vs. The Volcano.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Nice!

 

[Squiggy]

None of you are counting foreign box, merchandising/licensing, or future DVD sales while will all easily push the movie over the 300 mark.

 

[anothertrekfan]

This movie will make at least $50 million this weekend. Bank on it!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Star Trek will probably pull in around 35 million dollars this weekend, which will be just fine.

I'm guessing $40ish million, which is a sub-50% drop...

If this thing drops less than 50 percent then Paramount Pictures should just change their name to "Star Trek, Inc." I don't think that'll happen.

Be real nice if it does, though.

 

[miraclefan]

Loved Joe V Volcano

 

[Mr. B]

No, because the theaters get a cut of the revenue. Thus, Trek passed $100 million domestic today, but only about $50-$60 million of that (I think) actually goes to Paramount.

If that were true a large Coke wouldn't cost five bucks.

 

[The]

I hear that the reviews for "Angels & Demons" are not so great.
I wouldn't worry about it so much.

And that's what Tom Hanks gets for GIVING UP COMEDY!!!

Philadelphia

Forrest Gump

Apollo 13

I'd take a million of those over another Joe vs. The Volcano.

One does not preclude the other. There's no reason he couldn't be doing comedy at the same time. He's quickly becoming as irrelevant as Harrison Ford...