Re: What are your Box office Predictions for Star Trek?
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Your Box office Predictions for Star Trek? (and box office tracking)
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Re: What are your Box office Predictions for Star Trek?
Well that's a leap. I expect it will be, don't really care if does is or not.
Well that's a leap. I expect it will be, don't really care if does is or not.
Re: What are your Box office Predictions for Star Trek?
$451,192,891 domestic.
Does anyone know how long its going to be shown on the IMAX screens for?
$451,192,891 domestic.
Does anyone know how long its going to be shown on the IMAX screens for?
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I gotta say I know quite a few that you wouldn't want to face on "That's Academic," child.
I gotta say I know quite a few that you wouldn't want to face on "That's Academic," child.
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yeah, kids these days! what has the world come to? in my day...
yeah, kids these days! what has the world come to? in my day...
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Child? At 50? Don't I wish...
But those quite a few smart kids on "That's Academic" aren't going to push the movie into profitable territory--no rocket scientist needed to figure that out.
You need the average Joe and Jane to see the movie, and they most assuredly are also not on "That's Academic", nor are they intellectuals.
Kiddo.
Child? At 50? Don't I wish...
But those quite a few smart kids on "That's Academic" aren't going to push the movie into profitable territory--no rocket scientist needed to figure that out.
You need the average Joe and Jane to see the movie, and they most assuredly are also not on "That's Academic", nor are they intellectuals.
Kiddo.
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I'm saying blockbuster hits are not what they are because they attract Carl Sagan Fan Club members, but because scads of people plunk down money to see them.
Star Trek need not appeal to the intellect; it need only entertain to make money.
I'm saying blockbuster hits are not what they are because they attract Carl Sagan Fan Club members, but because scads of people plunk down money to see them.
Star Trek need not appeal to the intellect; it need only entertain to make money.
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I don't know that I agree. Because of the peculiar nerdiness of Star Trek, a kind of quasi-intellectual nerdiness, I think Star Trek has to have some big ideas to succeed.
I don't know that I agree. Because of the peculiar nerdiness of Star Trek, a kind of quasi-intellectual nerdiness, I think Star Trek has to have some big ideas to succeed.
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The Watchmen had some "big ideas", and it bombed; Slumdog Millionaire, despite being exotic and entertaining, was not based on "big ideas"; Paul Blart, Fast and Furious--no "big ideas" there.
I think those "big ideas" will keep more people away than it attracts.
Note that I am a huge Trek fan (DS9 being my favorite), and thus agree that the best Trek has a message or moral to it, but I'm not sure in today's day and age that attracts the general public.
The Watchmen had some "big ideas", and it bombed; Slumdog Millionaire, despite being exotic and entertaining, was not based on "big ideas"; Paul Blart, Fast and Furious--no "big ideas" there.
I think those "big ideas" will keep more people away than it attracts.
Note that I am a huge Trek fan (DS9 being my favorite), and thus agree that the best Trek has a message or moral to it, but I'm not sure in today's day and age that attracts the general public.
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I disagree about Slumdog Millionaire. It had a variety of ideas and messages... There was an intersection between spectacle, entertainment, and abject poverty. There were moral messages with respect to government corruption, police brutality, and religious discrimination. On another level, there's irony that this film that is directed by an English director who adopts Bollywood tropes and deconstructs the genre's cliches while paying homage to them. Or you could argue that it is a form of exoticism, at least in its reception by western audiences.
I disagree about Slumdog Millionaire. It had a variety of ideas and messages... There was an intersection between spectacle, entertainment, and abject poverty. There were moral messages with respect to government corruption, police brutality, and religious discrimination. On another level, there's irony that this film that is directed by an English director who adopts Bollywood tropes and deconstructs the genre's cliches while paying homage to them. Or you could argue that it is a form of exoticism, at least in its reception by western audiences.
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That intersection was there because it happened to be filmed in a country where wide swaths of the population live in abject poverty. The religious discrimination and police brutality were part of everyday life, they were not the subject of intellectual exploration.
The themes were otherwise simple, time-honored Hollywood ones: Good versus Evil, redemption, boy gets girl. I found the movie to be very simple and accessible to the general public, and that is why it made the money it did.
I'd call Napoleon Dynamite a more complex, quirky and unique movie than Slumdog, but it too was accessible enough to the average person to also succeed at the box office.
The moviegoing taste in general gravitates more toward "entertain me" rather than "enlighten me" or "teach me", I'm afraid. So anything Trek does on that level will have to be incidental to telling an action-packed, "entertaining" story, at least to succeed at the box office.
Not talking about the small artsy theater in oldtown, but the megaplex at the mall, y'know.
That intersection was there because it happened to be filmed in a country where wide swaths of the population live in abject poverty. The religious discrimination and police brutality were part of everyday life, they were not the subject of intellectual exploration.
The themes were otherwise simple, time-honored Hollywood ones: Good versus Evil, redemption, boy gets girl. I found the movie to be very simple and accessible to the general public, and that is why it made the money it did.
I'd call Napoleon Dynamite a more complex, quirky and unique movie than Slumdog, but it too was accessible enough to the average person to also succeed at the box office.
The moviegoing taste in general gravitates more toward "entertain me" rather than "enlighten me" or "teach me", I'm afraid. So anything Trek does on that level will have to be incidental to telling an action-packed, "entertaining" story, at least to succeed at the box office.
Not talking about the small artsy theater in oldtown, but the megaplex at the mall, y'know.
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very true.
Not talking about the small artsy theater in oldtown, but the megaplex at the mall, y'know.
very true.
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On the intellect statement...
All i mean is that it has to gain the viewers attention intellectually... the more they think about it the more publicity...
Star trek is sci-fi, and sci-fi is just a few interesting idea's stuck in a nice wrapper...
If you take that away from star trek it looses its heart.
A lot of kids are quite conceptually mature, they just don't really have an outlet.
In short...
If its pure action, trekkies will get annoyed(i know i will)... and people won't see it because of its stigma.
But if there is good idea's behind it, and it becomes a story, people will come to see the story - regardless of the name. I won't recommend it to my friends if it is heartless... but if it does have a good story I will.
Sci-fi has been gone to long, look at some recent releases...
Name, Budget, Income....
Hancock 150 600
Legend 150 585
I, Robot 120 347
If it isn't shoddy its in the ball park, people like sci-fi.
On the intellect statement...
All i mean is that it has to gain the viewers attention intellectually... the more they think about it the more publicity...
Star trek is sci-fi, and sci-fi is just a few interesting idea's stuck in a nice wrapper...
If you take that away from star trek it looses its heart.
A lot of kids are quite conceptually mature, they just don't really have an outlet.
In short...
If its pure action, trekkies will get annoyed(i know i will)... and people won't see it because of its stigma.
But if there is good idea's behind it, and it becomes a story, people will come to see the story - regardless of the name. I won't recommend it to my friends if it is heartless... but if it does have a good story I will.
Sci-fi has been gone to long, look at some recent releases...
Name, Budget, Income....
Hancock 150 600
Legend 150 585
I, Robot 120 347
If it isn't shoddy its in the ball park, people like sci-fi.
Re: What are your Box office Predictions for Star Trek?
The big box office of F&F this past weekend was discussed on the Today show this morning. Essentially, they are saying the recession is leading people to spend money on smaller things, like going to the cinema, rather than going on a holiday for entertainment.
That does bode well for Star Trek having a huge opening weekend.
The big box office of F&F this past weekend was discussed on the Today show this morning. Essentially, they are saying the recession is leading people to spend money on smaller things, like going to the cinema, rather than going on a holiday for entertainment.
That does bode well for Star Trek having a huge opening weekend.
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Re: What are your Box office Predictions for Star Trek?
I'm gonna say $225-250 million worldwide. Nice, but not enough to green light production on the sequel.
It's gonna be another Superman Returns, sank by it's budget.
I'm gonna say $225-250 million worldwide. Nice, but not enough to green light production on the sequel.
It's gonna be another Superman Returns, sank by it's budget.
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