Star Trek Beyond, the third movie in the rebooted space franchise, proved that by beaming up a hefty $59.6 million in ticket sales this weekend, knocking The Secret Life Of Pets into second place, according to Box Office Mojo.
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So as people always wait for the new part of the film and here now Star Trek Beyond is on the big screens and have a great response from the audience.
Meanwhile, Paramount’s Star Trek Beyond led the weekend box office with an estimated $56-$60 million weekend.
It bested The Secret Life of Pets ($29.3 million), Ghostbusters ($21.6 million), and Ice Age: Collision Course ($21 million).
The third film in the reboot franchise, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise find themselves in yet another uncharted area of the universe where they face a new, enigmatic foe (Elba) who tests the most central of their beliefs as dutiful foot soldiers of the Federation.
Because everything around Lin seems to go soar, explode and leap, particularly in “Star Trek: Beyond”, the highly entertaining actioner/science-fiction film that stops only long enough to let the audience catch its breath.
Warner Bros.’ horror film “Lights Out”, making its debut in theaters, and “Ghostbusters” tied for third with 21.6 million dollars each.
Don’t get me wrong, it was an enjoyable film and I’m glad I saw it, but it doesn’t stand out when compared to the best “Star Trek” movies. Considering that the second film (‘The Meltdown”) had the series’ highest opening ($68 million) and each of the other three debuts in the $40 million range, it comes as a massive blow that “Collision Course’ opened in the #5 spot to just $21 million.
Bryan Fuller, Scott Bakula, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, William Shatner and Jeri Ryan attend the “Star Trek 50” press line during Comic-Con International on July 23, 2016 in San Diego, California. The film has made $86.8 million thus far and while those might be okay numbers for a comedy, they are awful for a film with such high expectations and huge production costs. Worldwide is at $323.7M now.
In its fifth weekend of release, “Independence Day: Resurgence” crawled over the 100 million dollars mark, earning less than 1 million dollars for the weekend.
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The most recent installment, 2012’s “Continental Drift”, did 81.6 per cent of its 877.2 million dollars global total overseas. You’ll also be amused to know that Uhura, McCoy and the rest of the gang consider the Beastie Boys “classical” music, which gives us more hope for the future than anything we’ve seen in the newspapers in months.
