'Star Trek' Grosses $7 Million Thursday Night

[Stephen of Borg 2]

'Star Trek' grosses $7 million Thursday night

May 8, 2009, 03:09 PM | by Nicole Sperling

 

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek is on its way to boldly going where no Star Trek movie has gone before: to a huge opening weekend. The film bowed at 7 p.m. Thursday night and grossed an impressive $7 million in 3,849 locations. Sure, those numbers were boosted by the geeky fanboys who were salivating to catch the movie as soon as possible. Still, such a great start should help propel Star Trek's weekend gross to as high as $75 million. Quite impressive for a franchise that was considered dead a few years ago.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/05/star-treks-open.html

Edited May 9, 2009 by Stephen of Borg

[Eratosthenes 0]

Yay!!! Hooray!!! Huzzah!!!! Can you post a link to the source article? This is so great!!! :P

[A l t e r E g o 9]

I found a site with conformation of Stephens info but I cannot say how "official" it really is.

 

FRIDAY 10:50 AM: Sources tell me that Thursday screenings starting at 7 PM, including midnight shows, made approximately $7 million for Star Trek. "There was a big core fan turnout," one of my insiders says, "so you can't extrapolate to weekend numbers." Nevertheless, it's a great start.

 

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/week...-star-trek-65m/

 

Edit: Here is a Variety conformation. http://www.startrekfans.net/index.php?show...st&p=495450

[Stephen of Borg 2]

link added in post :P