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Last Thursday, I predicted that Star Trek would earn $81 million over its first four days. Most projections had it in the $65 - $70 million range, but I had a hunch it would do significantly better than that. The estimates came out yesterday, and the number was closer to my prediction, around $76 million, but the Sunday numbers pointed to a much bigger drop-off than the evidence would indicate.

So now the official numbers are out, and Star Trek did come much closer to $80 million since its Thursday night debut - $79.2 over the first four days. The rest of the top five was mostly unchanged; none of the films adjusted by more than a couple hundred grand, and that's pretty typical of the official tallies.

The difference for Star Trek was, in fact, those Sunday numbers, which actually only dropped about 22% from Saturday, a really strong hold. To put that in perspective, only two movies from 2008's top ten had smaller drops on the opening Sunday - The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones - and only The Dark Knight did it on a standard non-holiday weekend. So, that means that outside of the biggest anomaly in the last decade, Star Trek outgunned every movie that made over $150 million in 2008 on the slowest box office day of the weekend.

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