It didn’t take long for J.J. Abrams’ reboot of “Star Trek” to become the highest grossing film in the franchise’s long history. The film crossed the $200 million mark in domestic box-office grosses a few weeks ago and continues to do solid business at the box-office.
However, until Monday the film wasn’t the highest grossing “Trek” movie when the actual box-office figures was adjusted for inflation. That honor went to the original “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”
But with the latest round of receipts, the film has “boldly gone where no one has gone before” and become the highest grossing “Trek” film of all-time.
Ain’t It Cool News ran the adjusted figures and they are as follows:
$51.4 Nemesis (2002)
$89.5 The Final Frontier (1989)
$92.2 Insurrection (1998)
$108.4 Generations (1994)
$116.8 The Undiscovered Country (1991)
$149.4 First Contact (1996)
$156.4 The Search for Spock (1984)
$176.0 The Wrath of Khan (1982)
$212.7 The Voyage Home (1986)
$240.7 The Motion Picture (1979)
$240.8 Star Trek (2009)
This will add more fuel to the *reboot* disease that is spreading through Hollywood … it won’t be long until we get the reboots of ‘The Dick VanDyke Show’ and ‘I Love Lucy’.
Maybe it’s time to start a campaign . . .
“Just say NO to reboots!”
Wow, and I thought *I* was the cynical one.
Abrams’ Trek is the best thing to happen to sci-fi in general in many, many years. I haven’t felt that good coming out of a film in a long time.
Reboots are not the problem, badly written ones are. Writers who make bad assumptions about the source material and/or its fan base will surely kill a franchise in cold blood before they know it.
that list is exactly as I would have guessed.
I would like to see production costs on this list, just to compare.
The problem with reboots of science fiction is that science fiction is a genre about new ideas. I loved Star Trek, but I still want to see the exploration of new ideas not just rehashing of things that we’ve already seen.