Summer Movie Season 2012 Preview
Seeing as we now know the release date for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek 2 is May 17, 2013 that’s too far in the future for any real box office speculation as many movies are going to be juggling release dates till the last moment. However, I’ll do a quick box office analysis in a later post but for something a bit closer let’s take a gander at the summer 2012 blockbuster season (all USA/Canada release dates) which has a lot of tentpole franchises but only one real title that has a shot at obliterating the rest of the field.
But Star Trek films never do well in the cinemas*
People who know me realize I’ve been trying to predict (yes call if guessing is you want) box office numbers since high school. For all those who remember “Entertainment News and Views” the quarterly magazine we published you know who I am! Or maybe not. Anyways, here I go again and unlike twenty years ago (it’s been that long) I now have at my disposal a whole wealth of numbers to showcase so let’s begin with the myth that Star Trek films don’t really do too well.
Box Office -Top Grossing Movies 2001
| Rank | Movie | Domestic | International | Total Gross |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 317,575,550 | 657,179,821 | 974,755,371 |
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 313,364,114 | 555,985,574 | 870,761,744 |
| 3 | Shrek | 267,665,011 | 216,744,207 | 484,409,218 |
| 4 | Monsters Inc. | 255,873,250 | 269,493,347 | 525,366,597 |
| 5 | Rush Hour 2 | 226,164,286 | 121,161,516 | 347,325,802 |
| 6 | The Mummy Returns | 202,019,785 | 230,993,489 | 433,013,274 |
| 7 | Pearl Harbor | 198,542,554 | 250,678,391 | 449,220,945 |
| 8 | Ocean’s Eleven | 183,417,150 | 267,300,000 | 450,717,150 |
| 9 | Jurassic Park 3 | 181,171,875 | 187,608,934 | 368,780,809 |
| 10 | Planet of the Apes | 180,011,740 | 182,200,000 | 362,211,740 |
| 11 | A Beautiful Mind | 170,742,341 | 142,800,000 | 313,542,341 |
| 12 | Hannibal | 165,092,268 | 186,600,000 | 351,692,268 |
| 13 | American Pie 2 | 145,103,595 | 142,450,000 | 287,553,595 |
| 14 | The Fast and the Furious | 144,533,925 | 62,750,000 | 207,283,925 |
| 15 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | 131,168,070 | 143,535,270 | 274,703,340 |
| 16 | Dr. Dolittle 2 | 112,952,899 | 63,151,445 | 176,104,344 |
| 17 | Spy Kids | 112,719,001 | 35,215,179 | 147,934,180 |
| 18 | Black Hawk Down | 108,638,745 | 64,350,906 | 172,989,651 |
| 19 | The Princess Diaries | 108,248,956 | 57,086,197 | 165,335,153 |
| 20 | Vanilla Sky | 100,618,344 | 102,769,997 | 203,388,341 |
© 2001 The Galactic Pillow
