Sorry I, just don't see how a Trek movie that isn't even outpacing The Motion Picture (Adjusted for Inflation of course) is such a great success. I know we are all used to sub $100 Mil Trek grosses, but I was really expecting more.
Star Trek - Wednesday - $5.78 million
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Norrin Radd
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Norrin Radd
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Countless people were waiting in anticipation for a Star Trek film in 1979 and the world was crazy for sci-fi in the vein of Star Wars at that time.
And TMP was only number 8 at the domestic box office in 1979. A reasonable hit, but it was beat by Love at First Bite for christssakes.
In fact, research shows that the only Star Trek films that have cracked the top ten in their respective years have been the first four. Wrath of Khan was the highest to do so (number three in 1982 - not bad). Star Trek III and IV were both number 10 in 1984 and 1986. The rest of the TOS films and the TNG films failed to place, including First Contact.
My overall point is that Trek flicks have almost never been that successful at the box office relative to the competition at the time. So if the new Star Trek film does reasonable numbers, then it should be declared a success.
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^At this point it's anybody's guess. Nobody was sure what it would do last weekend so why should this weekend be any different?
I think it's got legs. Sexy sexy legs.
Right now hsx.com has it grossing 197.XX million domestic. Which I think is good. Also, looking at the top of the HSX page, they're already bidding on trek XII, which should be a positive sign.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=TRK11
Angels and Demons is trading at $150.44 million domestic.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=ANDEM
For the record, Trek 2 is already trading at $100 million domestic.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=TREK2
and before you call this a bullshit site, they offer their services as market research to movie makers.
http://www.hsx.com/about/
Right now hsx.com has it grossing 197.XX million domestic. Which I think is good. Also, looking at the top of the HSX page, they're already bidding on trek XII, which should be a positive sign.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=TRK11
Angels and Demons is trading at $150.44 million domestic.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=ANDEM
For the record, Trek 2 is already trading at $100 million domestic.
http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=TREK2
and before you call this a bullshit site, they offer their services as market research to movie makers.
http://www.hsx.com/about/
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Anything under 200 is disappointing I would say.
It'll pass 200 mil no problem.
Those numbers aren't correct. TMP was the #2 movie with 80+ million.
I think they're right. The problem is TMP was released in December 1979, and in those days movies usually opened smaller and went wide a couple of weeks later, so a good bit of TMP's business (esp. the repeat business) was in 1980.
No, that chart is wrong. It says specifically that it's not based on calendar year. Kramer vs Kramer was released later than TMP and made most of its money in 1980. btw, TMP didn't open small, it set an all time record for the weekend box office.
Hanks is a big Star Trek fan, at one stage, it was rumoured he was interested in Cochran's role in First Contact.
Yes they have. The average price for a ticket today is $7.18 (mind you this takes into account children/senior ticket prices and matinées). The average price for a ticket in 1979 was $2.51.
So yes adjusting for inflation is perfectly fair. What's important is the total number of tickets sold.
Yancy
Why? According to industry experts, this is already doing MUCH better than originally hoped.
Leave it up to a Trek Fan to spin Trek's success into a failure.
