Star Trek XI - spoilers!

[X]

Keep an eye on this page:

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/TRK11.php

It's where I go most of the time to stay informed.

[Bryancd]

I hope they make it to 80 million, that was the number I picked when discussing it with a friend on Friday.

[Meds]

Keep an eye on this page:

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/TRK11.php

It's where I go most of the time to stay informed.

I noticed they have Sulu down as Zulu ? ? ? hmm wheres Michael Caine then

[Ktrek]

I was looking at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes and so far Star Trek has a 96% critic approval rating with over 200 reviews. One of the highest ratings ever! Last year's The Dark Knight has only a 94% rating. Excellent but Star Trek is surpassing it thus far! Yippee!

Kevin

[X]

Theatrical Performance
Total US Gross    $76,500,000
Released    May 8, 2009
Production Budget    $150,000,000
MPAA Rating    PG-13 Release Date: May 8, 2009
Budget Source:   THR, 2/20/2009, p. 54
Highest Combined Star Gross   859 (see full chart)
Franchises   Star Trek
Distributed by   Paramount Pictures
Music Composed By   Michael Giacchino
Source   Sequel
Major Genre   Adventure
Country   United States
Production Method   Live Action
Creative Type   Science Fiction
Director    J.J. Abrams


Made half it's money back in 4 days ... this is looking good.

[X]

Note: It has also already made 10 million more than Nemesis

[X]

Here is where we're at after the 3 day

Release              Movie                                          1st weekend            US               international       Budget
12/7/1979            Star Trek: TMP                         $11,926,421     $82,258,456     $139,000,000     $35,000,000
6/4/1982          Star Trek II:                             $14,347,221    $79,912,963    $96,800,000    $12,000,000
6/1/1984          Star Trek III: The Search for Spock    $16,673,229    $76,471,046    $87,000,000    $18,000,000
11/26/1986    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home    $16,881,888    $109,713,132    $133,000,000    $24,000,000
6/9/1989            Star Trek V: The Final Frontier    $17,375,648    $52,210,049    $70,200,000    $30,000,000
12/6/1991                      Star Trek VI:                $18,162,837    $74,888,996    $96,900,000    $27,000,000
11/18/1994              Star Trek: Generations    $23,116,394    $75,671,262    $120,000,000    $38,000,000
11/22/1996           Star Trek: First Contact    $30,716,131    $92,027,888    $150,000,000    $46,000,000
12/11/1998             Star Trek: Insurrection    $22,052,836    $70,187,658    $117,800,000    $70,000,000
12/13/2002                  Star Trek: Nemesis    $18,513,305    $43,254,409    $67,312,826    $60,000,000
5/8/2009                       Star Trek                    $76,500,000              -                  -            $150,000,000
                                                       Totals    $756,595,859    $1,078,012,826    $510,000,000
                                                      Averages    $75,659,586    $107,801,283    $46,363,636

Note: XI's 76 mil is not included in the totals

[Ktrek]

I don't see how they can even possibly have the figures in for the whole weekend yet. The day is not even done. This can only be estimates. I want to read about the "real" numbers not projections based on Thursday and Friday sales.

Kevin

[RickPeete]

Looks like your numbers are comng from BoxOfficeMojo.com, right?

[Geekyfanboy]

I don't see how they can even possibly have the figures in for the whole weekend yet. The day is not even done. This can only be estimates. I want to read about the "real" numbers not projections based on Thursday and Friday sales.

Kevin

You are right Kevin.. these are only estimates, real number come in official on Tuesday.. but normally the numbers are a few million lower or higher then estimates.

[Geekyfanboy]

But regardless of the estimates.. the numbers are looking good.

[Geekyfanboy]

Weekend Report: 'Star Trek' Prospers
by Brandon Gray
Zachary Quino and Chris Pine in Star Trek
 
May 10, 2009

Seeking out new life for the series, Star Trek commanded a stellar estimated $72.5 million on approximately 7,400 screens at 3,849 sites over the weekend (plus an estimated $4 million from Thursday night previews). Paramount Pictures' Star Wars-like treatment of Gene Roddenberry's science fiction franchise resulted in the biggest Trek opening yet, soaring past the previous high of Star Trek: First Contact, which started at $30.7 million or the equivalent of over $50 million adjusted for ticket price inflation.

Star Trek steered the weekend as a whole to nearly $148 million, which was the biggest total ever for a second weekend in May and up nearly 18 percent over last year. The picture also yielded the most-attended start ever for a movie debuting in that timeframe, topping Twister. Unlike Twister, Star Trek opened in the wake of another big movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which wilted to an X-Men franchise low.

Included in Star Trek's total was the biggest-grossing weekend ever in IMAX history. The picture raked in an estimated $8.3 million at 138 IMAX venues, surpassing The Dark Knight's previous benchmark of $6.3 million. According to Paramount's exit polling, Star Trek's overall audience composition was 60 percent male and 65 percent over 25 years old.

It has been six and a half years since the last movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, fizzled at the box office and four years since the lowly-rated prequel series, Enterprise, ended its run. With that time to heal, the new Star Trek was positioned as a reboot a la Batman Begins and Casino Royale. The marketing slickly offered the familiarity of Star Trek's culturally iconic trappings with the promise of a grand, visceral adventure. Even if people hadn't seen previous Trek movies or shows, many elements, from the character types to the catch phrases, have saturated the culture for decades. That gave the new movie, which is a return to the original and most famous crew, a widely resonant framework to catapult it above other action pictures.

That doesn't mean there weren't miscues. The "This is not your father's Star Trek" line of the ad campaign, while accurate in its description of the movie itself for better or for worse, was not only puerile but unnecessarily insulting to the previous Star Trek incarnations and the audience base. One doesn't have to alienate the fans in order to broaden the appeal (even if most will take the abuse and still see the new movie anyway). The Batman and James Bond franchises were successfully rebooted without openly attacking what came before (and Batman had more to apologize for after Batman Forever and Batman and Robin).

Overshadowed by the flame-out of the later movies and television series, the popularity of Star Trek has been underrated, and the franchise certainly has a better batting average than J.J. Abrams, the director of the new movie who was given the keys after his first picture Mission: Impossible III disappointed and after his television series were either heavily-marketed non-starters in the ratings (Alias) or saw their audiences dwindle (Lost). While no Star Wars, Star Trek: The Motion Picture broke the opening weekend record nearly 30 years ago, amassing $11.9 million at 857 theaters or the equivalent of over $34 million adjusted for ticket price inflation, and its final tally of $82.3 million would equal nearly $240 million today. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn also set a new weekend benchmark in its debut, and the average total gross of the previous Star Trek movies, including both the respected entries and the clunkers, is close to $150 million adjusted.

Meanwhile, the summer's kick-off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, eroded 68 percent to an estimated $27 million. That's a slightly steeper decline than the previous picture, X-Men: The Last Stand, and it's also the least attended second weekend of the franchise. In ten days, Wolverine has collected a muscular $129.6 million. While it trails the first X-Men adjusted for ticket price inflation as well as X2: X-Men United and The Last Stand by wide margins, it would have been unrealistic to expect Wolverine to match the heights of its predecessors, given that it's a prequel that effectively limited its audience to the fan base, unlike Star Trek.

Like Wolverine, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past had a lower second weekend gross than its predecessors: in this case, the previous Matthew McConaughey romantic comedies Fool's Gold, Failure to Launch, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Wedding Planner. Nonetheless, it had a good hold, down 32 percent to an estimated $10.5 million, raising its total to $30.2 million in ten days.

Fading faster than the stalker thrillers of yore that it aped, Obsessed retreated 45 percent to an estimated $6.6 million, hiking up its tally to a potent $56.2 million in ten days. 17 Again again mirrored the last major body switch comedy, 13 Going on 30, and made an estimated $4.4 million for $54.2 million in 24 days. The weekend's other new nationwide release, crime comedy Next Day Air, packed a modest estimated $4 million at 1,138 locations.

[cosmonaut]

One of my favorite web comic artist declared himself a Trekkie after seeing the new movie! (He only likes new JJ Trek) :)
http://www.commissionedcomic.com/index.php?date=2009-05-11

[Rico]

Looks good.  Going to slip this into the Trek 11 thread since we have been talking box office $$ there.

[X]

I don't see how they can even possibly have the figures in for the whole weekend yet. The day is not even done. This can only be estimates. I want to read about the "real" numbers not projections based on Thursday and Friday sales.

Kevin

They get the numbers because every night right after the last show starts for the evening, someone calls a theater and asks their numbers. They are also automatically fed to a central company each night automatically from larger houses. It's not a hard process to have the numbers overnight.