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Your guess sounds about right. I'm sure it's going to be the highest-grossing ST film in history...and if it does make $70 million in the opening weekend (2.3 times as much as the current record for an ST opening weekend) then there's really no way around it reaching the top slot for overall gross. :P

 

Keep tabs on it versus all 10 other Star Trek flicks here:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/ch...id=startrek.htm

 

 

*** I should add the fact that the average opening weekend gross is just under $19 million for the first ten movies.

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You may be right, AE. I checked at Box Office Mojo and they have the estimated box office for Friday being $24,000,000.

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`Star Trek' boldly goes to $31M at box office - Link Here

 

Paramount is estimating that they will be near or at $70 million by the time the weekend is over. All I have to say is "Wow".

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Movies tend to do better on Sundays than Saturdays. The reason is families tend to make big plans for the weekend, but then people sleep in, get distracted by the game on TV, have yardwork that they meant to do last weekend, and by the tine they turn around it is Sunday afternoon and they haven't done anything yet.

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It might beat The Wrath of Kahn, but not after you adjust for inflation. The Wrath of Kahn was made when Star Trek was still fresh. The Motion Picture sucks by today's standards but it was adequate (if not exciting) for the time. Since First Contact Trek has gotten not only stale but downright moldy and has started growing spores. The new movie is good, and could be the sign of an upward trend, but I don't think it will surpass The Wrath of Kahn in viewer excitability.

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`Star Trek' has whopping $76.5 million opening - Link Here

 

I would say this is a successful reboot of the franchise. Now I hope this influences Star Trek - The Experience's reopening at Neonopolis Mall in Las Vegas.

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Splitting, moving and merging...

 

That's great news! With todays take, which could the highest total for the whole weekend, it is time to just say it...

 

Star Trek is a bonafide hit!

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i just saw the news online! this is such great news! it ALREADY has surpassed the other recent franchise reboots' opening weekends for Casino Royale, Incredible Hulk, Batman Begins, and Superman Returns. this is a fantastic indicator for the perofrmance of the sequal.

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J.J. Abrams' retooled, timeline-tweaking Star Trek scored an estimated $72.5 million Friday-Sunday opening weekend, Exhibitor Relations reported today, coming in on the high side of projections and blowing past previous franchise hits—and misses.

 

Since bowing Thursday night, Star Trek has grossed $76.5 million overall.

 

"An opening like this definitely indicates that moviegoers outside the core base of Trekkies showed up," Exhibitor Relations box-office analyst Jeff Bock said in an email.

 

Drilling down, Romulan-style, into the numbers:

 

• According to Paramount's calendar, the weekend started Thursday. The studio was reporting the $76.5 million figure as Trek's opening-weekend gross. It confirmed that count included Thursday business.

 

• Star Trek made more on Friday ($26.8 million, per Exhibitor Relations) than nine of the 10 previous Trek movies made in their respective opening weekends. If estimates hold, it'll have made more in 72 hours than the 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis, the last pre-Abrams film, made in 91 days of release ($43.3 million).

 

• Paramount was reporting Star Trek made $30.8 million on Friday. That figure, too, included Thursday business. By Exhibitor Relations' count, the movie's biggest single day so far was Saturday, with $27.4 million.

 

• Among franchise restarts, Star Trek outdid 2005's Batman Begins ($48.7 million debut) and 2006's Superman Returns ($52.5 million). It did not, however, outgross last weekend's X-Men pivot, Wolverine ($85.1 million), which remains the year's biggest opener.

 

• Adjusted for inflation, the first Trek movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, is the highest-grossing Trek, with an $82.3 million 1979-1980 haul that would translate into $235 million today, per Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray, who thinks Abrams' movie could unseat Robert Wise's opus as the undisputed Trek champion. "If it has longevity," Gray says, "…it has a chance."

 

• So, will Abrams' Trek have space legs? "The sci-fi genre is notorious for its precipitous drops," Bock said, "so Paramount is no doubt hoping all the positive word-of-mouth spreads, and the younger demographics show up."

 

• Next weekend, Trek's main opponent will be Tom Hanks' Angels & Demons. Opposite that film, Kirk's crew might be able to maintain warp speed as the Hanks movie, a sequel to The Da Vinci Code, will play to a target audience that "is obviously much older," as Bock put it, than the Chris Pine Appreciation Society.

 

• Just so you know, by next weekend, Star Trek should become the highest-grossing Tyler Perry movie of all-time.

 

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b123125_st...ffice_bang.html

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Probably. Thank you.

 

So it made about 4 million on Monday. At that rate, its take will be around 90 million by Friday morning, when it faces Hanks in A&D.

 

Hmm. Hopefully, of course, Star Trek will clean A&D's clocks but I don't think I can say I think it will stay at number one against A&D... however, the recession could have people wanting to see something fun over something with dark themes...

 

I'll call the match-up this way, it'll be close. The margin between the two films weekend take will be nearly tied.

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Probably. Thank you.

 

So it made about 4 million on Monday. At that rate, its take will be around 90 million by Friday morning, when it faces Hanks in A&D.

 

Hmm. Hopefully, of course, Star Trek will clean A&D's clocks but I don't think I can say I think it will stay at number one against A&D... however, the recession could have people wanting to see something fun over something with dark themes...

 

I'll call the match-up this way, it'll be close. The margin between the two films weekend take will be nearly tied.

Actually, according to what I've seen, Star Trek pulled in nearly twice that much on Monday ($7.64 mil), putting it at nearly 90 million already ($86.8 mil)

 

As for Star Trek vs. Angels and Demons, tough call. It will be a close 1-2 finish, with either ahead. I think Star Trek is destined for third the next weekend behind Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum 2 but will hold better than Angels and Demons.

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Probably. Thank you.

 

So it made about 4 million on Monday. At that rate, its take will be around 90 million by Friday morning, when it faces Hanks in A&D.

 

Hmm. Hopefully, of course, Star Trek will clean A&D's clocks but I don't think I can say I think it will stay at number one against A&D... however, the recession could have people wanting to see something fun over something with dark themes...

 

I'll call the match-up this way, it'll be close. The margin between the two films weekend take will be nearly tied.

Actually, according to what I've seen, Star Trek pulled in nearly twice that much on Monday ($7.64 mil), putting it at nearly 90 million already ($86.8 mil)

 

As for Star Trek vs. Angels and Demons, tough call. It will be a close 1-2 finish, with either ahead. I think Star Trek is destined for third the next weekend behind Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum 2 but will hold better than Angels and Demons.

 

That's assuming Terminator doesn't flop like a lot of people are expecting. Personally I'm glad they've started a new trilogy and reimagined it, but I'm doubtful as to how successful it will be, actually. Where are you guys seeing these numbers? Are my cookies getting inmyway or something? I don't see the Monday estimates anywhere yet.

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Oh okay gotcha. It didn't occur to me to check TrekBBS and all of those. I keep checking all of the statistics-tracking sites and news sites. :P

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That's assuming Terminator doesn't flop like a lot of people are expecting. Personally I'm glad they've started a new trilogy and reimagined it, but I'm doubtful as to how successful it will be, actually. Where are you guys seeing these numbers? Are my cookies getting inmyway or something? I don't see the Monday estimates anywhere yet.

Is it really a reimagining? I know it focuses on the future war, something we have seen only in glimpses, and that it is supposed to be a trilogy in the sense that the first three could be thought of as a trilogy, but a reimagining? That is something you do when a franchise has been dead for a long time like Batlestar Galactica or Planet of the Apes. All 3 Terminator movies thus far have been very successful (although Judgement Day more than the other two), and it hasn't been that long since Rise of the Machines, so a reimagining or a reboot is hardly necessary.

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That's assuming Terminator doesn't flop like a lot of people are expecting. Personally I'm glad they've started a new trilogy and reimagined it, but I'm doubtful as to how successful it will be, actually. Where are you guys seeing these numbers? Are my cookies getting inmyway or something? I don't see the Monday estimates anywhere yet.

Is it really a reimagining? I know it focuses on the future war, something we have seen only in glimpses, and that it is supposed to be a trilogy in the sense that the first three could be thought of as a trilogy, but a reimagining? That is something you do when a franchise has been dead for a long time like Batlestar Galactica or Planet of the Apes. All 3 Terminator movies thus far have been very successful (although Judgement Day more than the other two), and it hasn't been that long since Rise of the Machines, so a reimagining or a reboot is hardly necessary.

 

I thought Eratosthenes was talking about Star Trek... Here is how I cleaned his post up in my mind.

 

That's assuming Terminator doesn't flop like a lot of people are expecting. <In response to Jack saying:

 

I think Star Trek is destined for third the next weekend behind Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum 2 but will hold better than Angels and Demons.

 

Then, regarding Trek: Personally I'm glad they've started a new trilogy and reimagined it, but I'm doubtful as to how successful it will be, actually.

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Eratosthenes, here's a link to Box Office Mojo which has daily updates, totals-to-date and other information on a movie's box office.

 

One thing to keep in mind, the $86.7 million number does not include the international box office. That number just reflects the US and Canadian box office numbers. International numbers of rather slow to come in.

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Eratosthenes, here's a link to Box Office Mojo which has daily updates, totals-to-date and other information on a movie's box office.

 

One thing to keep in mind, the $86.7 million number does not include the international box office. That number just reflects the US and Canadian box office numbers. International numbers of rather slow to come in.

According to what I've read, Star Trek pulled in $35.5 million from its international opening weekend (or there abouts) in 54 countries.

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Hahahahaha, wow am I that out of it today?! I was referring to the new Terminator trilogy! I only called it a re-imagination of the franchise because of all of hte new techniques, takes, actors, and styles they're using, although it does fit completely within established Terminator canon. Sorry for not being clear about that earlier...I'm running on 1 hour of sleep, a bottle of muscle milk, two 5 Hour Energy drinks, a bottle of Kool Aid, and some unhealthy snacks for the day (I have three final exams today!) I wrote my previous post in a very short break from writing a paper and painting a 3x4 FOOT painting, both of which were due today.

 

Takara: Thanks for the link! :superhappy: Box Office Mojo has actually been my primary source all along (I posted it in the top of this thread actually), but when I was checking it they hadn't yet updated the total domestic gross to include Monday. :spock:

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Takara: Thanks for the link! :spock: Box Office Mojo has actually been my primary source all along (I posted it in the top of this thread actually), but when I was checking it they hadn't yet updated the total domestic gross to include Monday. ;)

 

D'OH! And I don't have the excuse of running on 1 hour sleep, etc. for not noticing that. :superhappy:

 

I am glad the movie is doing so well. Hopefully this will get people interested in earlier Trek as well.

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Box Office Mojo has Tuesday box office numbers listed and Star Trek pulled in just of $6.5 million so the total to date (without international numbers) is now just over $93.2 million. They have some limited numbers internationally with the UK, Ireland and Malta at just over $9 million, Russia at almost $2 million, New Zealand and Fiji at almost $500,000 and the Ukraine at just over $190,000.

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It's just south of $100 million domestic not including Thursday, which will put it at about $105 million to start its second week. Any guesses about its Friday performance? I know it's going to have much better legs than Wolverine did, but it's also going up against the Angels and Demons Friday release. I'm expecting it to still do really well...so I'm going to say that tomorrow (Friday the 14th) it'll bring in about $18 million.

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Box Office Mojo has international box office figures now. As of Thursday, the domestic box office is just over $104.6 million and the international box office is just over $49.2 million. The total box office to date is $153,875,505.

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Box Office Mojo has international box office figures now. As of Thursday, the domestic box office is just over $104.6 million and the international box office is just over $49.2 million. The total box office to date is $153,875,505.

Interesting that you say "Domestic" there when it is for both the U.S. and Canada but a few years ago you were ready to throw a live grenade at me when I said that Canadians were Americans... :superhappy:

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Interesting that you say "Domestic" there when it is for both the U.S. and Canada but a few years ago you were ready to throw a live grenade at me when I said that Canadians were Americans... :spock:

 

Calling it "domestic" is not my terminology but the terminology of the mostly US-based movie industry. And I would still be ready to throw a live grenade at you for saying that. :superhappy:

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