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rottenwatch box office:
87% Star Trek Into Darkness
78% Iron Man 3
50% The Great Gatsby
47% Pain and Gain
69% The Croods
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Sets Off With $84.1 Million Stateside. Fanboy-driven sequel improves overseas, grossing $165 million globally
With a softer-than-expected $84.1 million four-day Stateside tally, Paramount’s “Star Trek Into Darkness” reinforced this weekend where the franchise’s strengths lie — with fanboys — and with whom the series needs to improve — most everyone else.
Let’s be clear, however: The film’s domestic opening weekend (actually 6% better than its predecessor), added with an international gross of $80.5 million for a global cume of $164.6 million and counting, represents a truly solid number for the sequel. It’s only perhaps Paramount was a little too eager for a hit, setting its Stateside expectations too high at $100 million-plus.
The $190 million sequel, from Skydance Productions and Bad Robot, has done particularly well overseas, already doubling the lifetime cume of the 2009 original in many markets including Russia, Taiwan and Mexico. That’s reason for Par to be pleased, especially since the “Star Trek” franchise historically hasn’t traveled well outside the U.S.
Rob Moore, Par’s prexy and chairman, said the biggest coup this weekend was the film’s overseas growth.
“The one question that people kept asking us was, ‘People didn’t go see J.J.’s original reboot, why would they go see this film?’” Moore said. “So that’s why we spent so much time and effort in those markets and people are now showing up as movie fans.”
Stateside, though, the film played above average with fans, who contributed a higher-than-usual percentage of the pic’s total gross. For instance, Imax contributed 16% of the film’s bow (with $13.5 million), compared to “Iron Man 3,” which had less than 10% opening weekend come from Imax.
With franchise fans driving online chatter, “Star Trek Into Darkness” should develop strong word-of-mouth, with an ‘A’ CinemaScore rating.
However, a 27% Friday-to-Saturday increase vs. the last film, which grew only 1%, suggests “Into Darkness” had a much larger family turnout than the previous film. Moore said it’s most likely older Star Trek fans now taking their kids.
“Into Darkness” faced tough competition domestically, with “Iron Man 3” and “The Great Gatsby” still holding strong.
The Disney-Marvel film earned north of $35 million, down 52% in its third frame, while Warner Bros.’ “Gatsby” fell 53% in its second, with an estimated $23.4 million. “Iron Man 3″ has cumed $337 million Stateside; “Gatsby” crossed $90 million.
With a softer-than-expected $84.1 million four-day Stateside tally, Paramount’s “Star Trek Into Darkness” reinforced this weekend where the franchise’s strengths lie — with fanboys — and with whom the series needs to improve — most everyone else.
Let’s be clear, however: The film’s domestic opening weekend (actually 6% better than its predecessor), added with an international gross of $80.5 million for a global cume of $164.6 million and counting, represents a truly solid number for the sequel. It’s only perhaps Paramount was a little too eager for a hit, setting its Stateside expectations too high at $100 million-plus.
The $190 million sequel, from Skydance Productions and Bad Robot, has done particularly well overseas, already doubling the lifetime cume of the 2009 original in many markets including Russia, Taiwan and Mexico. That’s reason for Par to be pleased, especially since the “Star Trek” franchise historically hasn’t traveled well outside the U.S.
Rob Moore, Par’s prexy and chairman, said the biggest coup this weekend was the film’s overseas growth.
“The one question that people kept asking us was, ‘People didn’t go see J.J.’s original reboot, why would they go see this film?’” Moore said. “So that’s why we spent so much time and effort in those markets and people are now showing up as movie fans.”
Stateside, though, the film played above average with fans, who contributed a higher-than-usual percentage of the pic’s total gross. For instance, Imax contributed 16% of the film’s bow (with $13.5 million), compared to “Iron Man 3,” which had less than 10% opening weekend come from Imax.
With franchise fans driving online chatter, “Star Trek Into Darkness” should develop strong word-of-mouth, with an ‘A’ CinemaScore rating.
However, a 27% Friday-to-Saturday increase vs. the last film, which grew only 1%, suggests “Into Darkness” had a much larger family turnout than the previous film. Moore said it’s most likely older Star Trek fans now taking their kids.
“Into Darkness” faced tough competition domestically, with “Iron Man 3” and “The Great Gatsby” still holding strong.
The Disney-Marvel film earned north of $35 million, down 52% in its third frame, while Warner Bros.’ “Gatsby” fell 53% in its second, with an estimated $23.4 million. “Iron Man 3″ has cumed $337 million Stateside; “Gatsby” crossed $90 million.
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