Comments on: The Profits and Prophets of Star Trek http://www.showbits.net/2009/05/26/star-trek-profits/ A blog of news, reviews, commentary, and quirks from Hollywood and Broadway, with a focus on quirky, geeky stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek, and superheroes. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Gagne http://www.showbits.net/2009/05/26/star-trek-profits/#comment-9477 Ken Gagne Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:28:35 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=452#comment-9477 <em>Star Trek</em> is coming back to IMAX theaters starting tomorrow, September 4th. Among <a href="http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/15047/-star-trek-gets-us-imax-re-release" title="Dark Horizons | News | "Star Trek" Gets US IMAX Re-Release - September 2nd 2009">that news</a> was a sobering tidbit regarding my previous reflection on the film's box office returns. Apparently its success is contextual: "Though it fared a lot better than previous <em>Trek</em> films have, the movie's foreign box-office tally sits at $126 million — one of the lowest tallies of this summer's tentpoles." Hat tip to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/gened5" title="Gene | MySpace">GeneD</a>. Star Trek is coming back to IMAX theaters starting tomorrow, September 4th. Among that news was a sobering tidbit regarding my previous reflection on the film's box office returns. Apparently its success is contextual: "Though it fared a lot better than previous Trek films have, the movie's foreign box-office tally sits at $126 million — one of the lowest tallies of this summer's tentpoles."

Hat tip to GeneD.

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