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By: USShawk (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:29:26 on Jul 05, 2009

Probably alot more than Paramount expected for a domestic gross. I had read way back that paramount expected a 40 to 50 million opening weekend and a 175 to 185 million domestic total. They went far beyond it and did what they set out to do, re-energized Star Trek.

ST09 will hang around in the theaters another 8 to 10 weeks, probably generating another 6 to 9 million before it closes. My guess is it ends up around 257-259 million. This is why I love boxofficemojo. I look at how it trended next to Iron Man, and it's easy to get an idea where it will land by the time it ends it's run.

It might have done better in foreign markets if there were better marketing outside the US. Looking at other blogs it was easy to see, by reading what others overseas had to say, that Paramount didn't do the greatest job promoting this film outside the countries they expected to do business in with this movie.

Bring on Star Trek 2011 !!!!

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