The Final Ongoing Star Trek Box Office Thread

[MvRojo]

Since Star Trek is finally winding down at the box office, this will be the final thread dedicated to the daily box office numbers. Since the film has fallen out of the Top 12, the numbers will undoubtedly come out later in the day now.

Feel free to discuss anything box office related, beyond just the daily/weekend box office numbers for Star Trek.

 

[MvRojo]

Since there's no Trek numbers yet, I'm going to start this thread off with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" numbers. It set a midnight opening record, earning $20 million from showings starting after 12:01 am last night. The previous record was $18 million for "The Dark Knight." The last HP film made $12 million in midnight showings. So for those who earlier said there was less excitement for the new film...HAH!

 

[Chrisisall]

This is the first flick since Voyage Home that I plainly saw non-Trekkies at in numbers.
How could I tell there were non-Trekkies at the theatre I went to?
Trekkies leave the theatre differently than non-Trekkies; they either analyze the flick loudly & incessantly as they walk out (either with a smile or frown on their faces), or they stay until they see the Paramount symbol on the screen after the music ends. The rest are civilians.

 

[Borgminister]

Since there's no Trek numbers yet, I'm going to start this thread off with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" numbers. It set a midnight opening record, earning $20 million from showings starting after 12:01 am last night. The previous record was $18 million for "The Dark Knight." The last HP film made $12 million in midnight showings. So for those who earlier said there was less excitement for the new film...HAH!

It hasn't opened in IMAX yet though, for contractual reasons involving Transformers II, right?

Also, BOM doesn't even have Monday's numbers any more it seems.

Oh well...

 

[cooleddie74]

If nothing else at least TREK has outgrossed PRISONER OF AZKABAN, BATMAN and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Maybe that's the only Potter movie that it's outperformed domestically but considering the juggernaut that most anything Rowling has become in this decade that is impressive.

 

[MvRojo]

Since there's no Trek numbers yet, I'm going to start this thread off with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" numbers. It set a midnight opening record, earning $20 million from showings starting after 12:01 am last night. The previous record was $18 million for "The Dark Knight." The last HP film made $12 million in midnight showings. So for those who earlier said there was less excitement for the new film...HAH!

It hasn't opened in IMAX yet though, for contractual reasons involving Transformers II, right?

Also, BOM doesn't even have Monday's numbers any more it seems.

Oh well...

Yeah, the IMAX showings don't start for two weeks.

Which Monday numbers are you referring to?

 

[Cyrus]

Also, BOM doesn't even have Monday's numbers any more it seems.

Oh well...

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2009-07-13&p=.htm

 

[Borgminister]

Thanks Cyrus--I couldn't find the link at their home page... Be interesting to see what the Tuesday numbers were...

 

[Cyrus]

I couldn't find the link at their home page

You can always find it on the left column under "BOX OFFICE" and "DAILY".

 

[Garth Rockett]

Since there's no Trek numbers yet, I'm going to start this thread off with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" numbers. It set a midnight opening record, earning $20 million from showings starting after 12:01 am last night. The previous record was $18 million for "The Dark Knight." The last HP film made $12 million in midnight showings. So for those who earlier said there was less excitement for the new film...HAH!

That's very impressive. I've only looked at one review of the movie so far, and it was very positive. I haven't understood the claims that interest in the last films will drop off. I'm sure there are millions of people (like myself) that haven't read the books yet who are waiting for the films to find out how the story ends.

As for Star Trek, I think I'm almost more interested to see how many theaters it retains over the next few weeks than its actual box office take. I still appreciate the daily updates here, though. I don't know what I'll do when there's no longer a box office thread to check on every day!

 

[Rackon]

HP is actually showing on a few IMAX screens, including in the Chicago area. Not enough to be significant.

Like XI, HP&THBP was held over until summer, and I think there was a lot of pent up demand for it - no new books coming out, for one thing, so the remaining movies are all fans have to look forward to. The midnight showings in Indy sold out two days before the opening.

 

[Daneel]

Star Trek actually managed to get back into the Top 12 yesterday, beating out Year One to earn $147,071 on Tuesday (although that was actually a little less than it made on Monday). Trek's domestic total now stands at $252,266,670.

Harry Potter apparently took in closer to $22.2 million from midnight showings, which, as MvRojo noted above, is massive, and even more than The Dark Knight took in from midnight showings last year.

 

[Cyrus]

Domestic: $252,266,670
Foreign: $125,628,799

 

[Jbarney]

Have watched these threads over the weeks and am glad to be commenting on them now that we are over 250 million. Might go out to see it one more time.....

 

[Therin of Andor]

or they stay until they see the Paramount symbol on the screen after the music ends. The rest are civilians.

I stay till the end of credits at every movie I see. What does that make me? A fan of all movies?

 

[trampledamage]

or they stay until they see the Paramount symbol on the screen after the music ends. The rest are civilians.

I stay till the end of credits at every movie I see. What does that make me? A fan of all movies?

Just like me - a fan of movies. Not necessarily a fan of all movies - because some are awful, but any movie I see I'll watch all the credits for. I like the credits.

 

[Borgminister]

or they stay until they see the Paramount symbol on the screen after the music ends. The rest are civilians.

I stay till the end of credits at every movie I see. What does that make me? A fan of all movies?

Just like me - a fan of movies. Not necessarily a fan of all movies - because some are awful, but any movie I see I'll watch all the credits for. I like the credits.

Sometimes the credits contain outtakes, so they are worth sticking around for...

As an homage to the new Harry Potter movie, I'm off to the IMAX for a 3rd IMAX viewing of Star Trek...

 

[Lumen]

I think I'll probably see Harry Potter this weekend. I wonder if it will beat Transformers this year.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

or they stay until they see the Paramount symbol on the screen after the music ends. The rest are civilians.

I stay till the end of credits at every movie I see. What does that make me? A fan of all movies?

A bad data point.

 

[Jeri]

A bad data point.

Yeah, an outlier. I bet Therin feels odd now. After having blue skin for 30 years. (Trust me, I'm including myself in the outliers...)

As an homage to the new Harry Potter movie, I'm off to the IMAX for a 3rd IMAX viewing of Star Trek...

I just heard a surprising piece of news: the IMAX where I saw Star Trek 15 times or so had an electrical fire on the roof while showing Harry Potter last night. Let that be a lesson! (No one was hurt.)