Star Trek didn't fall flat on its face and put up some respectable numbers (kind of cheating over a 4-day weekend...but we won't get into that). The people involved should be more than happy considering how troubled the franchise's history has been. But I could have told you ahead of time that it was not going to be the top movie at the box office this year.
However, it may have trouble making back its $150 million budget until the DVD/Blu-Ray release comes out. Studios generally only make back 55% of the gross box office receipts as the rest has to go to theaters, etc. But it will turn a decent profit.
http://www.themovieinsider.com/m71/3/star-trek/
Terminator 4, Harry Potter, and Transformers 2 are the ones to watch in terms of which movie is going to be the box office king. Angels and Demons might surprise some people and dethrone Wolverine or Star Wars.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
