Â
"Star Trek" is on its way to a huge opening weekend.
Paramount's reboot of the classic franchise grossed between $7 million and $8 million from Thursday evening and midnight shows, according to knowledgeable industry source. That's bigger than last year's "Iron Man," which sold about $5 million of tickets on a comparable Thursday opening and went on to make $102.1 million by Sunday.
More notably, one person with access to box-office data said today that "Star Trek" had already sold about $3 million worth of tickets by this morning. That's twice as big as "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which opened to $85 million, at the same point last week.
However, given the franchise's devoted base of hard-core fans, sales for the earliest shows don't necessarily mean the movie will go on to be as big as "Iron Man." But it's now looking very likely it will warp past tracking that indicated it would make between $65 million and $75 million.
Even distribution executives at competing studios, who usually remain nonplussed about competitors' performances, were uniformly impressed by the early returns.
Paramount hasn't yet released an official gross or responded to a request for comment.
-- Ben Fritz
Photo: "Star Trek."Â Credit: Industrial Light & Magic / Paramount Pictures
Kenneth Branagh gives life to a dogged cop
It airs on Sundays and it concerns a detective in a foreign land, but don't look to "Wallander" (8 p.m. Central Sunday, WTTW-Ch. 11; three stars) to supply the kind of cozy, comfy crime-solving that can be found on HBO's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency."
This Masterpiece Mystery! offering from PBS stars Kenneth Branagh as an extravagantly rumpled Swedish detective. Kurt Wallender is the kind of detective who is frequently encountered in crime fiction: He's far too dedicated to his job, eats a bad diet and alienates those around him with his devotion to solving cases.
This dedicated detective was brought to life in a series of novels by Swedish author Henning Mankell, and Branagh does a fine job of giving texture and nuance to this haggard, haunted man.
It's unfortunate that the director of the first installment of this three-part series, which was shot in Sweden, saw fit to festoon the proceedings with self-indulgent, arty flourishes. However the strength of the script and Branagh's finely drawn performance -- not to mention the excellent scenes between Branagh and David Warner, who plays Wallander's dad -- make up for those kinds of missteps.
For an interview with Branagh on his new role, look here.
Ballet San Jose gives us the ol' 'Song and Dance'
Ballet San Jose performs some Puccini, some Sinatra and some Mahler.
Maria Shriver Turns Spotlight On Alzheimer's
The Alzheimer's Project, a new documentary airing on HBO, was inspired by Maria Shriver's book Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?.
ARTS-CUBA: Aura of Déjà Vu at the Biennial
HAVANA, May 8 (IPS)Too bold for some tastes and too dissident for others, some of the Cuban exhibits at the recent Havana Arts Biennial brought to mind the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the visual arts were in the vanguard of national culture.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar