Weekend Box Office
1)
Star Trek $72.5 million
2)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine $27 million
3)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past $10.4 million
4)
Obsessed $6.6 million
5)
17 Again $4.4 million
6)
Next Day Air $4 million
7)
The Soloist $3.6 million
8)
Monsters Vs. Aliens $3.3 million
9)
Earth $2.4 million
10)
Hannah Montana: The Movie $2.4 million
JJ Abrams' reboot of the
Star Trek franchise was firing on all thrusters this weekend as it warped into the top spot at the box office with $72.5 million. While the film opened to impressive numbers, it wasn't able to beat out
X-Men Origins: Wolverine debut take of $85 million from last weekend. The Marvel Comics adaptation starring Hugh Jackman took in extreme dip in ticket sales this week, dropping down into the number two spot with another $27 million to its name. Thus far, the franchise offshoot has collected an impressive $129 million, making it the first hit of the summer.
This weekend's only other major release was the Benny Boom action comedy
Next Day Air. Starring an ensemble cast of comedic actors, the film arrived at number six on the charts, taking in an estimated $4 million. It opened on just 1,138 screens, 1/3 of those shared by Captain Kirk and Spock. After home video sales, this will be a modest hit, and its possible that we will see a sequel sometime in the next year.
In a not so-surprising turn, both
Star Trek and
X-Men Origins: Wolverine held the top per-screen averages of the weekend as well.
Star Trek managed to take $18,836 from its 3,849 screens. While
X-Men Origins: Wolverine collected $6,582 from its 4,102 screens. New on the art house scene,
Little Ashes earned $6,417 from each of its 12 screens for a cumulative take of $77,000.
Adoration came in behind it with $43,700 from ten screens. And
Rudo y Cursi pulled a fairly week $211,000 from 70 screens.
Star Trek will have a hard time fighting for that number one spot next weekend, as the crew of the Starship Enterprise faces a great adversary in Tom Hanks and his
Angels & Demons. This sequel to the popular hit
The Da Vinci Code is the only major release headed our way next weekend.
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And thanks to the incorporation of a certain plot element explaining WHY this movie is different, the franchise no longer carries the anchor of everything the came before around its neck. Star Trek can now "boldly go" where no Star Trek movie or series has gone before.
Mr. Amazing, yes it will make over 140 million because worldwide it has already made $120 million.
The funny thing is even after "Terminator Salvation" comes out next week, a movie I'm REALLY looking forward to and am hopeful about, I wouldn't be surprised if "Up" turns out to be the best movie of the summer. Beyond what's already been released ("Wolverine" and "Star Trek") and what is yet to come ("Transformers" and "Harry Potter"). We're not talking the biggest money maker. We're talking a movie that has a great story, great characters, and some real depth. As well as being a fun summer popcorn flick.
and just wondering do u mean it won't make more then 140 mil world wide or domestic?
I can't really say that "Wolverine" was any better than "Star Trek". But at least I wasn't shaking my head during "Wolverine" wondering why they were doing some of the things they were doing in the script.
I thought it would make more, too. I was anticipating 90 million.
Well at least it broke the opening of x-men.
Last movie was Nemesis, which was boring and uneventful, and the last show was Star Trek: Enterprise, which did not feel like Star Trek.
-Bad pacing. Just one thing after the other that doesn't account for shit. They didn't develop the story just like they didn't develop the characters. Right when you think you might like a character, they get killed.
-Obvious CGI. Wolverine's claws looked far more real in the X-Men movies. I almost gagged when Wolverine pops his claws in the bathroom...it was atrocious. Other bad effects include any aircraft and the helicopter explosion as Wolverine is walking away
-Deadpool...isn't Deadpool. They only refer to him as Deadpool in a metaphorical way like a "pool" of mutant abilities...alright, cool concept. But don't fuck up an anticipated character to make it happen.
-Multiple endings that not everybody sees. What kind of bullshit was this? I hope movies aren't going down this path.
It was an okay movie in my eyes, but disappointing, too. It wasn't gritty enough to be called a Wolverine movie and I felt Fox forced a more kid friendly approach
the second one Wrath of Khan, is better though? is that right, cuz i've never seen anything of the original Star Trek, just Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and not even all of those just decent amounts
I read on another site that they believe the reason this didn't do better is the same reason Batman Begins didn't do better. After Forever and Batman & Robin, ppl were unsure if Begins would be good so they didn't see it, then it was awesome so they knew that Dark Knight would be awesome and that is y Dark Knight did SO good. they anticipate the same thing with Star Trek now, that last movies were lackluster so ppl were weary bout this one, now that this one is awesome and most ppl like it, the next one is expected to do way better.