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STID "tracking" for $85-90 million opening [U.S. box office]

Harvey said:
While looking through the Nick Meyer papers at the University of Iowa I photocopied a June 11, 1990 memo from Ralph Winter to Teddy Zee which lists several production budget numbers of interest. (Some of this info also comes from an undated memo comparing the costs of several of the features, found in the same collection).

TWOK -- $13 million (approved budget was $11 million)
TSFS -- $16,766,830 (approved budget was $16 million)
TVH -- $22,479,687 (approved budget was $23 million)
TFF -- $32,030,271 (approved budget was $31.25 million)

I also have a production budget for TUC (dated April 12, 1990, just before photography commenced) which lists the approved budget at $29,157,511 (though it is plastered with a note indicating that figure doesn't include $1.1 million in overhead costs).
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Thanks, it's nice to have specifics.

Wonder what the 1.1 overhead was at that point? Would they have been charging STARFLEET ACADEMY development to TUC? Nobody had used up a pay-or-play either, as Bennett's contract was already up before he departed.

I am surprised that TFF's approved budget was over 30 ... kind of makes me wonder where some of that went. You've got locations work, yeah, got half a mil for Paradise City, maybe 300 grand for the new bridge, whatever it costs to build WONDERFUL new phasers and a couple shuttlecraft mockups ... 300 grand for an unusable rock creature ...

I'm a staunch defender of Shat and TFF, but man, they sure should have spent that money in more efficient ways. This does perhaps show why it was so important for them to release on schedule though. I'd always wondered why they didn't just slip back to xmas and have more time to refine the cut and do some additional VFX work with other vendors (people who could shoot motion control models with natural BLUR!), but I suppose they figured the interest costs alone would be enough to not make the delay worthwhile.
 
trevanian said:
Wonder what the 1.1 overhead was at that point? Would they have been charging STARFLEET ACADEMY development to TUC? Nobody had used up a pay-or-play either, as Bennett's contract was already up before he departed.
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I haven't gone through the budget line by line, so I can't be sure. There is $1.1 million of producer's overhead indicated in the detailed budget ($600,000 for Jaffe/Meyer, $400,000 for Konner/Rosenthal, and $100,000 for Winter), but without looking in more detail I can't say if this figure is included in the overall cost or not (the thing is a 48 page document, after all).

On the other hand, the Winter memo I previously mentioned (which outlines a budget for TUC which is much more substantial than that of the final picture) includes a list of several expenditures for the aborted Academy project, which total $1,320,000.
 
Yeah, I don't think AE is going to do particularly well. The trailer didn't look very good, and I think last I read the tracking was at about 30m?!
 
Seen it twice so far, once in 3D, once in 2D. I'll probably go again before it is out of theatres. a) because I enjoy it, and b) because I want this movie and franchise to do as well as possible
 
Indysolo said:
Flake said:
Star Trek has IMAX until Man of Steel so that will soften the drops for a while, ST09 only had IMAX for 2 weeks.
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After Earth opens May 31 and is in IMAX.
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It will be in select IMAX theatres - go to the IMAX website and put in your zip code to find out if it is.
http://www.imax.com/

So in some areas it will push STiD out. Also, Fast & Furious 6 will be in select IMAX as well.
(not mine...for both movies :techman:)
 
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Boxoffice Guru:

Pre-opening Hangover3 does $3.1M from WED late shows starting at 10p. Far cry from Hangover2's $10.4M WED midnights on same night. Down 70% vs H2 from 2 yrs ago

I believe that we have no need to fear Hangover3 and After Earth.
STID breaks $100M today 1 wk after IMAX bow. :bolian:
 
From a guy on hsx.com forum.

Early Sales Report and Trends for Memorial Day Weekend at my theater chain - FAST6, HNOV3, EPIC, TREK2


Posted by: nilephelan on May 23, 07:27

Here is what our early ticket sales look like for Thurs-Mon across our markets.....

FAST6 - Very, very strong with multiple weekend showings already sold out

HNOV3 - Sales are weak. Didn't come close to selling out the 10pm's last night in a smaller house. Not looking good.

EPIC - Fairly normal, usually don't see a huge bump until the day of the show.

TREK2 - Selling nearly as well as FAST6. Looks like it could have a big weekend. Legs have been strong all week for this one.



Gatsby is also holding very well while Iron Man 3 is non-existent for early sales, but that isn't surprising given Gatsby is a date movie and Iron Man 3 has been out 4 weekends now and sales for those movies aren't strong until day of.

Overall, it is looking like this could be a record setting weekend for us. So much better than last year.
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Again, pinch of salt required but perhaps some cautious optimism ?
 
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