Trek at the box office

[Bounty]

Box Office Mojo has a very interesting little factoid:

Star Trek, the new movie, has grossed $31 million during it's opening day + the midnight showing on Thursday. That's domestic, international sales may be higher since it opened earlier in the week in parts of Europe.

Nemesis, the last Star Trek movie, made $43 million... during its entire domestic theatrical run.

Now, these aren't world-shattering numbers; it's no TDK. But a $31 million première is a very respectable figure and IIRC the highest a Trek movie has ever gotten, even adjusted for inflation. If the movie has legs, and word-of-mouth might contribute a fair bit to that, it should make Paramount a nice pot of gold.

[DaveJB]

Not bad at all. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up against Angels & Demons next week, which by all accounts hasn't been marketed very well (heck, I've seen the trailer for it 4 times in front of other films this year, and I still don't know what it's about).

[Jon]

According to boxoffice.com the film was on target to gross around $75 Million domestic by Sunday. They also have some adjusted for inflation figures on all of the previous movie's opening weekends/theatrical run.

http://boxoffice.com/featured_stories/2 ... f-trek.php

Adjusted for inflation:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): $34,668,706 (opening weekend)/ $239,115,674 (cume)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): $35,038,451 / $192,290,437
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984): $35,629,102 / $163,237,856
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986): $32,671,686 / $212,328,919
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): $31,267,457 / $93,951,918
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991): $30,976,050 / $127,720,425
Star Trek: Generations (1994): $39,707,107 / $129,980,545
Star Trek: First Contact (1996): $49,896,339 / $149,493,266
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998): $33,761,058 / $107,451,468
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): $22,918,195 / $53,387,173

[AMT]

That's good but how does it compare to its budget?

[Bounty]

1/5th recouped on opening day.

[Stofsk]

1/5th recouped on opening day.

That bodes well.

I really hope this film does well in the numbers game. It deserves it.

[AMT]

Very nice. Now let's hope the momentum continues.

[Bounty]

Friday showings are estimated at $24 million. If it does half again the business of the first two days over the weekend, it's in the $80 million ballpark, or 50% of the budget in three days-and-one-evening. Domestic, BOM doesn't track international.

I'd say that, unless nobody shows up after today, this pretty much guarantees a sequel.

[Jon]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... id=13&cs=1

'Star Trek' beams up $76.5 million

Paramount’s “Star Trek” successfully left space dock to gross $76.5 million in its domestic box office debut, including $4 million in Thursday night shows.
J. J. Abrams’ reboot of the classic sci-fi franchise came in on the upper end of expectations, and all but guarantees that Par will pursue a next installment.

“Star Trek” took a bite out of 20th Century Fox holdover “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which debuted to $87 million last weekend, the best opening of the year.

“Wolverine” fell a steep 68% in its second sesh to $27 million from 4,102 runs for a 10-day domestic cume of $129.6 million. Fanboy-driven titles often see sizeable drops in the second weekend, although “Wolverine’s” was on the higher end. “X-Men: The Last Stand” likewise declined 67% in its soph sesh on its way to cuming $234 million domestically. ("Last Stand" had no direct competition in its second weekend.)

Summit Entertainment’s “Next Day Air,” the weekend’s other wide opener, strugged to find an aud. Urban comedy grossed $4 million from 1,138 runs.

“Star Trek” led another up weekend at the domestic B.O., with revs running as much as 22% over the same weekend last year.

Estimates place international box office figures in a similar amount.

[Stofsk]

That's good news! Also interesting how Wolverine has taken a steep dive; good, because that was a horrible film. I'm glad I didn't pay any money to see it. And no, that's not me admitting to anything naughty, my mum had free tickets to a cinema.

[Jon]

I don't know if that figure includes Sunday?

[General Zod]

I don't know if that figure includes Sunday?

Why would it? Sunday's not even over yet.

[Jon]

Because it seems like a weekend estimate.

[General Zod]

Because it seems like a weekend estimate.

That looked like raw data to me, not any kind of estimate.

[Jon]

Yes it includes estimate for Sunday;

Breakdown:

Thursday 7-12: $4m
Friday 12am Onwards: $26.8m
Saturday: $27.4m
Sunday: $18.4m (projected)

Total: $76.5 million

Source http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/w ... -trek-65m/

[JME2]

Looking good. I seriously doubt it'll reach TDK levels either, but this is a good sign.

[Bounty]

It's already the #10 highest-grossing movie of 2009.

[Jon]

That's the second-best opening of 2009 (after X-Men Origins: Wolverine's $85.1 mil last weekend), and it includes a whopping $8.2 mil earned in IMAX showings, a new one-weekend record for the large format (beating The Dark Knight's $6.3 mil).

[Bounty]

Variety reports the movie made another $30-ish million overseas, putting the first-weekend total on $112 million.

[Jon]

Sunday figures in were actually $2 million or so above estimates for a weekend domestic total of $79.3 Million. Not bad at all. Next weekend competition is Angels & Demons?

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/w ... -trek-65m/

[Worlds Spanner]

We'll see what kind of legs this has. Angels & Demons looks awful to me, but it will have broader appeal. I wonder if continuing good reviews will get some more of the under 25s to see Star Trek in the coming weeks?

[Havok]

Star Trek is getting great word of mouth. Even some of my biker friends are asking me about it. That is good.

[Ilya Muromets]

And, you gotta admit, the marketing guys did a great job of hyping the people up fo the movie. There were already "ZOMG this is gonna be SO AWESOME" comments as far back as the trailer where Old Spock appears. By the time the whole "I dare you to do better" trailer was out, a lot of people were quite clearly already effectively drooling based on the youtube comments alone.

[CaptainChewbacca]

I said it in the other thread, but my mother who has only seen FIVE movies in the theater since The Fugitive thought it was great. This is a movie only hardcore nerds can hate.

[tim31]

Star Trek is getting great word of mouth. Even some of my biker friends are asking me about it. That is good.

I remember once having been told, when I was about twelve, that it doesn't matter what kind of group it is; there will be a Trekkie hidden amongst them