The international take could have been higher, but the important thing is that we're getting a sequel.
The Final Ongoing Star Trek Box Office Thread
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"Avatar" is the only movie from the last 5 months of the year that I think is a good bet to make the top 5 for the year. There's always the chance that another movie will come out of nowhere like "The Hangover", though.
So... no resolution to the Terminator weirdness?
There is almost no chance a film will come out of nowhere to make 250 plus million. What the Hangover did was very rare, however it was helped out big time by when it came out and what it ran against for a while.
No, it won't.
I think Hangover and Avatar will at least push it to #6. I have a feeling something random will also push it further down...maybe 2012 if it is well-received, and possibly New Moon, considering the crazy reaction there was to the trailer.
Burgeoning market, to be sure...
Thanks everybody; looks like the consensus is we are outa the top five.
I was reading that trekmovie.com article about foreign promotion, and the most noteworthy to me was that demographic in Japan, called "office ladies." Female office workers in Japan go to see movies by themselves after they get off work. That was remarkable to me, because I'd always heard that the Japanese did almost nothing alone.
Apparently, it is the market to appeal to, and they gear every poster toward the romance or interpersonal relationship in a movie, if they can. For Star Trek, they pushed the poster with Uhura, Kirk and Spock on it.
I was reading that trekmovie.com article about foreign promotion, and the most noteworthy to me was that demographic in Japan, called "office ladies." Female office workers in Japan go to see movies by themselves after they get off work. That was remarkable to me, because I'd always heard that the Japanese did almost nothing alone.
Apparently, it is the market to appeal to, and they gear every poster toward the romance or interpersonal relationship in a movie, if they can. For Star Trek, they pushed the poster with Uhura, Kirk and Spock on it.
And they made $6 million. I wonder how much Paramount spent on that massive premiere there with the giant inflatable Enterprise.
I think I have an explanation for the big increase for Terminator 4 on Wednesday. I don't think it was a mistake. It probably was included as a double feature with Harry Potter at the driver-in theaters, so it got a boost from the HP movie. Trek got a similar bump when Transformers opened, and for the same reason.
How sure of a thing is this? Harry Potter doesn't look like it'll get to $200 million in 5 days like Transformers did, but does that mean it has no chance of passing Transformers?
Plus, it was #12 again.
HP has been traditionally a fairly front-loaded series. It should easily cruise by $300 million, but it probably won't approach the $400 million Transformers 2 will end up with.
But I suppose it's hard to tell from just two days, but I'd bet the farm that it doesn't beat Transformers.
Hmmm... although I didn't really notice that bump, I can see the logic in your analysis.
Funny how Trek dropped, then rebounded again though.
Ah well, at this point we're just looking at the "good to the last drop" coffee drippings anyway...
There was a bump the first day Transformers opened but we mistakenly attributed it to the spillover effect from sold out Transformers performances. I think it was actually due to the double-bill at drive-in theaters.
That would make sense.
Let's see how close Star Trek gets to a million dollars this final weekend...
I know they've extended its run at my local IMAX until the 29th!
Poor harry potter. If I had to choose, I would say that Harry Potter actually looked more impressive in IMAX than star trek did.
not too surprising as Star Trek wasn't filmed in an IMAX format, it was straight 35mm film.
