New Moon, Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, 2012.....
They're very unlikely to top $250 million though, I think. If anything else besides Avatar tops $250 million, it would be a big surprise.
The Final Ongoing Star Trek Box Office Thread
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New Moon, Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, 2012.....
They're very unlikely to top $250 million though, I think. If anything else besides Avatar tops $250 million, it would be a big surprise.
None of those will top 250. Avatar might, depending on how its reviewed.
It'll be front-loaded big-time, an IMAX-crushing debut.
After that, yes, it'll be legs.
Star Trek brought in $56,695 on Wednesday, down 2.3% from Tuesday and 33.4% from last Wednesday (though it should be noted that virtually all major films experienced a drop from Tuesday to Wednesday). Per screen average was a nice $249, which is once again better than the per screen averages of several other, more recent films, like Public Enemies, Bruno, Up, I Love You Beth Cooper, and Terminator Salvation. 
Total domestic box office: $254,834,025.
EDITED TO ADD: Star Trek's theatre count will be expanding to 375 tomorrow -- that's 147 more locations than it currently has! I suppose most of these are second-run discount theatres, but perhaps some first-run cinemas have taken note of Trek's solid per screen averages and realized that this film has staying power. That would be pretty cool if true.
Total domestic box office: $254,834,025.
EDITED TO ADD: Star Trek's theatre count will be expanding to 375 tomorrow -- that's 147 more locations than it currently has! I suppose most of these are second-run discount theatres, but perhaps some first-run cinemas have taken note of Trek's solid per screen averages and realized that this film has staying power. That would be pretty cool if true.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 1 was a giant turd. If #2 makes beaucoups of money I'll be severely disappointed in the human race.
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 1 was a giant turd. If #2 makes beaucoups of money I'll be severely disappointed in the human race.
What you're saying is that #1 in fact was a #2...
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 1 was a giant turd. If #2 makes beaucoups of money I'll be severely disappointed in the human race.
What you're saying is that #1 in fact was a #2...
Yup. I adore Jason Lee, ever since his earliest Kevin Smith movies. MY NAME IS EARL is Epic Win all around. But the Chipmunks movie made me wish he'd get sucked into a jet engine.
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Yep. And it was 20th at the box office yesterday; the fact that it still manages to get into the Top 20 three months after it premiered speaks volumes about this movie's good word-of-mouth and continued success.
Oh, and per screen average was $242, if anyone's interested.
Yep. And it was 20th at the box office yesterday; the fact that it still manages to get into the Top 20 three months after it premiered speaks volumes about this movie's good word-of-mouth and continued success.
Oh, and per screen average was $242, if anyone's interested.
Back up to 375, and it opens up to a new market really in a way, as there are some people out there now that refuse to pay full price for a movie, they resolve to see it only once it hits the cheap theaters, since it has excellent word of mouth this is where the payoff happens again. Should be a nice little spike, but remember the per theater take will decrease because the overall ticket price is down too.
But that's ok Ironman got a nice little spike, and Treks legs are better than Ironmans in the last two weeks
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=summer09vs.htm
Then Ironmans take almost doubled. So it will be interesting to see what Trek does this weekend as it's like opening in a new mini market demographic. I am optimistic that it can do 1/2 million which gets us closer to 256 million. If it does get that mini-spike for three weekends it could just make it to 260 which would be awesome.
But that's ok Ironman got a nice little spike, and Treks legs are better than Ironmans in the last two weeks
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=summer09vs.htm
Then Ironmans take almost doubled. So it will be interesting to see what Trek does this weekend as it's like opening in a new mini market demographic. I am optimistic that it can do 1/2 million which gets us closer to 256 million. If it does get that mini-spike for three weekends it could just make it to 260 which would be awesome.
Nice bump according to BOM!
Decent 29% increase, but unfortunately nowhere near the 87% jump Iron Man had last year when it went into second-run theatres.
$421,000 weekend total
Domestic Total - $255.3 million
International Total - $381.2 million
The NYT had an article today about summer blockbusters whose author notes in passing:
He's got a point.
Also, in the NYT review of G.I. Joe the other day a different reviewer remarked:
This movie is staying on the media radar as a kind of touchstone for various aspects of movie success this summer, in somewhat the same way that folks continued to write about and reference The Dark Knight well into late last year.
He's got a point.
Also, in the NYT review of G.I. Joe the other day a different reviewer remarked:
This movie is staying on the media radar as a kind of touchstone for various aspects of movie success this summer, in somewhat the same way that folks continued to write about and reference The Dark Knight well into late last year.
If the movie can just hang in there a smidge longer, it'll pass MONSTERS INC. and then it'll be the highest grossing film that hasn't made at least $260 million.
Weekend actuals are out -- Star Trek brought in $438,654 over the weekend, over $17,000 more than the early estimates indicated! That's a 34% jump from last weekend; still not on the level of what Iron Man accomplished, but very nice nonetheless.
Domestic total is now $255,327,784.
Domestic total is now $255,327,784.
WOO HOO!!!! Not bad as it enters its fourth month in theatres!!!
