Weekend Estimate - Star Trek #7 - $4.7 million
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Great Numbers, good news about the 250! 
Bay's not thrilled about Paramount's promotion of the film, either:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Movies/wireStory?id=7894451
"watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan"... 
Saw Trek for a second time today. Was at the beach, it was shitty weather and raining, so saw it with friends. The theater was about half full for a 3pm Sunday matinee. Surprised me how many people were there!
My friends thought it was a good movies and they aren't scifi people.
My friends thought it was a good movies and they aren't scifi people.
I noticed a surprising amount of people seeing Star Trek at my AMC today. We still have two theaters for it (coming to 10 showings a day) and when I got to work on of the first shows I needed to clean was Trek and it was near sold out! The next few showings appeared to be close to selling out as well.
As for how much longer it'll be around. I think it also depends on how many screens a theater has. Mine has 30 so its going to be around for several more weeks. For theaters that have less, it probably wont be along much longer. At this point though I think its going to outlive Angels and Demons and Terminator.
As for how much longer it'll be around. I think it also depends on how many screens a theater has. Mine has 30 so its going to be around for several more weeks. For theaters that have less, it probably wont be along much longer. At this point though I think its going to outlive Angels and Demons and Terminator.
And Imagine That and Land of the Lost... 
Seriously, LOTL will hardly crack 50 and Imagine That might not even hit 20.
Michael Bay is one of the worst directors in Hollywood and is my prime example when I explain to people what is wrong with modern cinema.
Michael Bay apparently won't be making a third Transformers film... I read an article that mentioned the leaked memo in the piece Dennis posted, and he says that he wants to try doing something "totally divergent, something without any explosions." Good luck Michael. It's nice to see him wanting to branch outside his comfort zone, but I'm not exactly optimistic about the prospects.
As for Trek, even though it's just gravy at this point, it's still nice to see the film continuing to perform solidly after a month and a half of being in theatres. Regrettably, I contributed not to Trek this weekend, but to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (it was my dad's choice -- it was Father's Day after all, and since we've each already seen ST twice, he wanted to see something else). But, as I've stated before, it's good to know that this film doesn't actually need the repeated patronage of fans like me to be a success.
Good luck Michael. It's nice to see him wanting to branch outside his comfort zone, but I'm not exactly optimistic about the prospects. As for Trek, even though it's just gravy at this point, it's still nice to see the film continuing to perform solidly after a month and a half of being in theatres. Regrettably, I contributed not to Trek this weekend, but to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (it was my dad's choice -- it was Father's Day after all, and since we've each already seen ST twice, he wanted to see something else). But, as I've stated before, it's good to know that this film doesn't actually need the repeated patronage of fans like me to be a success.
Michael Bay apparently won't be making a third Transformers film... I read an article that mentioned the leaked memo in the piece Dennis posted, and he says that he wants to try doing something "totally divergent, something without any explosions."
As for Trek, even though it's just gravy at this point, it's still nice to see the film continuing to perform solidly after a month and a half of being in theatres. Regrettably, I contributed not to Trek this weekend, but to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (it was my dad's choice -- it was Father's Day after all, and since we've each already seen ST twice, he wanted to see something else). But, as I've stated before, it's good to know that this film doesn't actually need the repeated patronage of fans like me to be a success.
Michael Bay will end up directing Transformers 3. The main issue he has with it is that if they want him to do it by 2011, he basically won't have a break. If they push it back to 2012 or something, like he wants, he could fit something in before.
Well, that's just an example of losing all sense of proportion. A lot of factors make the commercial film marketplace what it is right now, and Bay is not particularly significant. He's just one director, not terribly influential, who gives the studios and public what they want most of the time. And "one of the worst?" Not even close - but since his stuff's successful so often he's a lot easier to point to in a conversation, I suppose.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
I agree..and I hope JJ convinces Paramount to not 'nick' us with just the movie cut, and then six months later, the 'undeleted' scenes versions. Since have cracked the 12 barrier, stilling gunning for you Jeri, I want to see the scenes they keep talking about that ended up on the cutting floor...
Rob
Scorpio
A wise choice.
Awesome. I've been one of the crowd proclaiming Trek will make it to $250M for a while now, and I was only guessing about $3.5M for the weekend. Great news.
How many minutes total were excised from the film? I thought it was like 10 or so.
And 12?
Them's not even fighting words to Jeri, who's probably stifling a big yawn.
