Some good news on the box office front for Star Trek.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is outselling Iron Man 3:1 in online pre-sale tickets. A good sign for Wolverine considering that Iron Man made $582 million at the box office worldwide and $318 million at the domestic box office.
Now here comes the interesting part for Star Trek - Star Trek is outselling Wolverine in online pre-sale tickets by 25%. Hints at a strong opening for Star Trek and hopefully leads to a very successful box office which will provide more momentum for the next Star Trek movie (XII) which has already been announced.
Box office (and critical) success is important to keep the Star Trek franchise moving forward. The last four movies have had box office receipts as follows:
Nemesis: $67 million worldwide
Insurrection: $112 million worldwide
First Contact: $146 million worldwide ****By Far The Best Quality Movie Of These Four****
Generations: $118 million worldwide
I think that Paramount needs a big box office success to provide real credibility to the franchise going forward.
Early reviews have been fantastic, and that helps a lot!
Source - The information from that article is from MovieTickets.com
Box office information from
BoxOfficeMojo.com.