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Weekend Actuals are In: A&D:46.5, ST:43 million

The word-of-mouth is definitely spreading where I work, and I'm planning on seeing it again, so there's a long way to go. It's not over yet!
 
Here you go this totally proves my point: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-boxoffice18-2009may18,1,6805483.story

The weekend's only new movie in wide release was nearly eclipsed by "Star Trek," which grossed $43 million on its second weekend, according to studio estimates, down just 43% from its launch. Its drop is the smallest for any big-budget summer action-adventure movie in at least three years, indicating extraordinarily positive word of mouth.
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After an opening driven by men over age 25, the audience for "Star Trek" has broadened to include more families.

"We did surveys in the same theaters as last weekend and found that we're getting more parents, we're getting younger and we're getting more women," said Don Harris, Paramount's executive vice president of distribution.
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Despite the struggles of "Angels" at home and "Star Trek" abroad, all three of the big-budget event movies that have opened this summer are performing solidly, with final worldwide grosses of $350 million to $500 million looking likely.
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By the way, those international numbers for A&D are sick.
 
goldbug said:
Trek may make #2 for Memorial Day..according to Variety "Word of Mouth" is packing em in...with many repeat viewers..


sorry to all the naysayers..this film seems to have legs..
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In order for it to be #2, it's likely $34 million 4-day opening (assuming a roughly 20% drop) would have to be bigger than that of either T4 or NATM2, neither of which are close to being possible.
 
USS Gettysburg said:
What? Box office numbers are indicative of the strength of retail DVD sales for a movie. What are you talking about. See numbers above. DVD sales will be quite strong.
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Maybe. A lot of my movie collection are testaments against the sales of DVDs having a correlation with ticket sales. Not at all trying to be negative, I'm just wondering what the end-take will be. Again, I'm someone who is going to buy the movie on disk... I'm just curious if there's a lot of people like me on there, or if the casual movie-goers will decide that they've 'seen it' already in the theatres and skip the discs for awhile.

(Batman Begins and Blade Runner, for instance, did MUCH better on disk than the movie releases. Meanwhile, big hits like Willow and Krull are pretty much budget fare on DVD. Even mega-hit Iron Man had a huge drop-off in DVD sales...)

Again, my thinking is long term, and where the franchise is going to go from here... but I'm not sure the powers that be are even sure at the moment.
 
Vance said:
USS Gettysburg said:
What? Box office numbers are indicative of the strength of retail DVD sales for a movie. What are you talking about. See numbers above. DVD sales will be quite strong.
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Maybe. A lot of my movie collection are testaments against the sales of DVDs having a correlation with ticket sales. Not at all trying to be negative, I'm just wondering what the end-take will be. Again, I'm someone who is going to buy the movie on disk... I'm just curious if there's a lot of people like me on there, or if the casual movie-goers will decide that they've 'seen it' already in the theatres and skip the discs for awhile.

(Batman Begins and Blade Runner, for instance, did MUCH better on disk than the movie releases. Meanwhile, big hits like Willow and Krull are pretty much budget fare on DVD. Even mega-hit Iron Man had a huge drop-off in DVD sales...)

Again, my thinking is long term, and where the franchise is going to go from here... but I'm not sure the powers that be are even sure at the moment.
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What DVD did was make films that people liked cheap to own in a great quality. More people are buying movies now then ever before, which is why a lot of video stores are losing customers/closing down.
 
MvRojo said:
It actually has a good shot of Top 3 for the year behind Transformers and HP6. This is assuming good legs and that "Avatar" won't be huge.
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I have a feeling that Avatar is going to be huge, James Cameron is cooking something special.
 
SalvorHardin said:
I wonder where this guy is now ? Or that Dayton fellow..or a couple of others like them

Yeah, I know I shouldn't do that...but it's fun sometimes:D

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2805975#post2805975
BolianAdmiral said:
Opening day/night will be the ONLY time this film makes any money of any respect. Otherwise, it'll make Paul Blart look like Dark Knight.

Nobody of any number is gonna go see this thing. Opening day/night, all the Trek fans will be lined up, clinging to the hope that somehow they'll be able to save this thing, but otherwise, it'll be a royal floppa-roppa.

Every time I've been in a theater where the trailers for Trek have been shown, the audience reactions range from light chuckles, to laughter, to outright groans. People who like Trek will see this thing. Other people will not.

Think about it... if someone has already had 40+ years to get into Trek, and never did, what could possibly make them want to see this? They're just not into Trek. Nothing will change their mind... for them, they like movies with raw, mindless, action, where lots of things go KA-BOOM, with hot cars, and hot women... in other words, movies like Transformers. For this audience, Trek is a series loved by chess-club geeks, who give strange hand signals... and they won't change their mind about it... if they could, they would have done so with ENT or one of the more recent films.

But, if they (Paramount) need to see the dismal box office returns to show them the grim reality, then so be it. Trek better hope to god no other movie opens the same day, otherwise the OTHER film will be the one that rakes in money.
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That is a golden oldie, isn't it... :)
 
Trek should be the #2 movie of the year within the next 2-3 days. It just has to get passed Wolverine's $151 million and Fast and Furious' $153 million.
 
Finally we have the weekend numbers inn and new foreign numbers. I will add those numbers and upgrade my Trek film comparison at the box office(adjusted for inflation of course.)


domestic gross:
1. The Motion Picture: $235.9 mil:)
2. The Voyage Home: $209.3 mil
3. The Wrath of Khan: $190. 0 mil
4. The Search for Spock: $161. 2 mil
5. STAR TREK: $147.6 million.

Foreign gross:
1.The Motion Picture: $162.5 mil:)
2. First Contact:: $86.5 mil
3. Generations: $73.6 mil
4. STAR TREK: $67,746 million
5. Insurrection: : $64.0 mil

Worldwide gross:
1. The Motion Picture: $398.4 mil:)
2. The Voyage Home: $253.8 mil
3. First Contact: $233.9 mil
4. The Wrath of Khan: $233.6 mil
5. STAR TREK: $215,391 million
 
SalvorHardin said:
I wonder where this guy is now ? Or that Dayton fellow..or a couple of others like them

Yeah, I know I shouldn't do that...but it's fun sometimes:D

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2805975#post2805975
BolianAdmiral said:
Opening day/night will be the ONLY time this film makes any money of any respect. Otherwise, it'll make Paul Blart look like Dark Knight.

Nobody of any number is gonna go see this thing. Opening day/night, all the Trek fans will be lined up, clinging to the hope that somehow they'll be able to save this thing, but otherwise, it'll be a royal floppa-roppa.

Every time I've been in a theater where the trailers for Trek have been shown, the audience reactions range from light chuckles, to laughter, to outright groans. People who like Trek will see this thing. Other people will not.

Think about it... if someone has already had 40+ years to get into Trek, and never did, what could possibly make them want to see this? They're just not into Trek. Nothing will change their mind... for them, they like movies with raw, mindless, action, where lots of things go KA-BOOM, with hot cars, and hot women... in other words, movies like Transformers. For this audience, Trek is a series loved by chess-club geeks, who give strange hand signals... and they won't change their mind about it... if they could, they would have done so with ENT or one of the more recent films.

But, if they (Paramount) need to see the dismal box office returns to show them the grim reality, then so be it. Trek better hope to god no other movie opens the same day, otherwise the OTHER film will be the one that rakes in money.
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Wow. :guffaw:
 
James Bond said:
SalvorHardin said:
I wonder where this guy is now ? Or that Dayton fellow..or a couple of others like them

Yeah, I know I shouldn't do that...but it's fun sometimes:D

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2805975#post2805975
BolianAdmiral said:
Opening day/night will be the ONLY time this film makes any money of any respect. Otherwise, it'll make Paul Blart look like Dark Knight.

Nobody of any number is gonna go see this thing. Opening day/night, all the Trek fans will be lined up, clinging to the hope that somehow they'll be able to save this thing, but otherwise, it'll be a royal floppa-roppa.

Every time I've been in a theater where the trailers for Trek have been shown, the audience reactions range from light chuckles, to laughter, to outright groans. People who like Trek will see this thing. Other people will not.

Think about it... if someone has already had 40+ years to get into Trek, and never did, what could possibly make them want to see this? They're just not into Trek. Nothing will change their mind... for them, they like movies with raw, mindless, action, where lots of things go KA-BOOM, with hot cars, and hot women... in other words, movies like Transformers. For this audience, Trek is a series loved by chess-club geeks, who give strange hand signals... and they won't change their mind about it... if they could, they would have done so with ENT or one of the more recent films.

But, if they (Paramount) need to see the dismal box office returns to show them the grim reality, then so be it. Trek better hope to god no other movie opens the same day, otherwise the OTHER film will be the one that rakes in money.
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Wow. :guffaw:
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Awesome! :lol::guffaw:
 
James Bond said:
SalvorHardin said:
I wonder where this guy is now ? Or that Dayton fellow..or a couple of others like them

Yeah, I know I shouldn't do that...but it's fun sometimes:D

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2805975#post2805975
BolianAdmiral said:
Opening day/night will be the ONLY time this film makes any money of any respect. Otherwise, it'll make Paul Blart look like Dark Knight.

Nobody of any number is gonna go see this thing. Opening day/night, all the Trek fans will be lined up, clinging to the hope that somehow they'll be able to save this thing, but otherwise, it'll be a royal floppa-roppa.

Every time I've been in a theater where the trailers for Trek have been shown, the audience reactions range from light chuckles, to laughter, to outright groans. People who like Trek will see this thing. Other people will not.

Think about it... if someone has already had 40+ years to get into Trek, and never did, what could possibly make them want to see this? They're just not into Trek. Nothing will change their mind... for them, they like movies with raw, mindless, action, where lots of things go KA-BOOM, with hot cars, and hot women... in other words, movies like Transformers. For this audience, Trek is a series loved by chess-club geeks, who give strange hand signals... and they won't change their mind about it... if they could, they would have done so with ENT or one of the more recent films.

But, if they (Paramount) need to see the dismal box office returns to show them the grim reality, then so be it. Trek better hope to god no other movie opens the same day, otherwise the OTHER film will be the one that rakes in money.
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Wow. :guffaw:
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that is the true meaning of FAIL :cool:
 
I think it's really impressive we beat Angels & Demons Saturday and Sunday! Honestly, who'da thunk it?

Personally I'm really impressed by Star Trek's numbers.
 
MvRojo said:
James Bond said:
SalvorHardin said:
I wonder where this guy is now ? Or that Dayton fellow..or a couple of others like them

Yeah, I know I shouldn't do that...but it's fun sometimes:D

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2805975#post2805975
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Wow. :guffaw:
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Awesome! :lol::guffaw:
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I have to wonder if posts like that were motivated by self-loathing or a desire to piss on everyone else's parade. A combination of both, I suppose... Anyway it's pretty funny now.
 
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