UPDATE: 'Star Trek' Adds Another $24 Million… How High Will It Boldly Go?
This one looks to live long and prosper
UPDATE: Early estimates proved to be $2 million high for Star Trek as new estimates show it pulling in $24 million on Friday, giving it a total of $31 million so far, including Thursday's $7 million. Wolverine's estimate was also lowered by $0.6 million to $8.5 million for Friday and all other numbers related to the weekend have been updated. Also, thanks to 'RAMA' who pointed out I was looking at First Contact opening day numbers and not opening weekend when comparing to the new Trek.
Steve Mason at Big Hollywood brings us Friday estimates and the predictions for Star Trek continue to rise as Mason was at one point predicting the film to make approximately $65 million, but has now raised that total to $77 million following a stellar Friday at the box.
Star Trek opened early on Thursday to the tune of $7 million and on Friday, estimates show it pulled in an additional $24 million. Our very own Laremy Legel went out on a limb with a $92.4 million prediction for the sci-fi reboot that has earned amazing reviews from critics with a 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes holding strong. Should word-of-mouth continue to grow, so could the box-office take for the feature that must have Paramount execs jumping for joy.
In only 31 hours, Star Trek has already bested the previous best opening weekend for a Star Trek film by $1 million as Star Trek: First Contact in 1996 was the previous holder of the crown with $30 million. Perhaps its the right movie at the right time, critical reviews, trailers, marketing, J.J. Abrams or whatever, but this one is hitting on all cylinders.
Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, however, isn't exactly enjoying a great weekend following up its $87 million from last week. Friday estimates give it a $8.5 million total and Mason is predicting the film will finish with $30 million for the weekend, and while that is a nice number and will send the feature over the $100 million mark after only 10 days it remains a sharp 65% drop — not a number you want to see associated with your blockbuster feature no matter how big the opening.
The week's other wide release, Summit's Next Day Air, isn't exactly finding much of an audience at all with only $1.4 million on Friday and estimates expecting a $3.55 million weekend. I guess that's what happens when you say "Critics agree" in your trailer and then begin quoting Source Magazine.
I have included all the early Friday estimates below and Laremy will be here on Sunday for the complete recap. It should be interesting to see just how high Star Trek can boldy go.
- Star Trek (Paramount) – $24 million
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Fox) – $8.5 million
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Warner Bros) – $3.1 million
- Obsessed (Sony) – $2 million
- Next Day Air (Summit) – $1.4 million
- 17 Again (Warner Bros) – $1.15 million
- The Soloist (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $1.2 million
- Monsters vs. Aliens (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $980,000
- Earth (Disney) – $686,000
- Hannah Montana: The Movie (Disney) – $690,000
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