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.
Update: Star Trek beams up $24 mil more at the box office on Friday
Yay!
Star Trek was AWESOME! 90 million opening weekend easily.
I went with some friends. I’ve never really liked Star Trek before, but this movie was a ton of fun!
Hopefully they will invest in future Trek adventures.
The force is strong with this one
OOPS SORRY
Live Long And Prosper
75 million isn’t that impressive anymore. Not for a $200+ film.
The movie was so good the execs at Paramount greenlit a sequel about THREE WEEKS AGO, before the movie made a penny. And since the film’s budget was 125-150 mil (not 200) it is definitely feasible that this movie will bring a hefty profit and secure at least a trilogy if not more. Great movie, I LOVED it!!!
(140 million, not 200)
Reviews are exceptional, and do not dare doubt the power of the Trekkie. They will see the movie 3-5 times this weekend, and next. It might not break the wolverine first bow, but it has a chance to stick around the top ten for a while.
A fun movie to watch but a severe dissapointment if you’re a Star Trek fan.
It is a $130M film, not $200M. I am betting it’ll be over $100M for this opening weekend.
I loved this movie. As a very loyal Star Trek fan I was impressed with the movie plot and the characters! I will probably see it another 5 times!
Not a great movie, but a thoroughly enjoyable one. They took just a wee bit too much poet license on Kirk’s youthful indiscretions, but like I said, quite a fun movie. Actually, I was rather surprised that traditionally cheap Paramount dumped as much money into this film as reported.
btw, I’d give it a solid 3/4 stars.
Certainly a bit cheesy…Mr. Pine was excellent casting. He’s got most of Kirk’s affectations down cold. I love the dynamic between Spock and Ohura.
the movie was an all out fun rollecoaster ride that’ll probably only be top by Pixar’s UP and Harry Potter in quality.
http://theninthdragonking.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/quality-assesstment-star-trek/