Finding Dory leads the animated movies this year with Zootopia still in the top 40 for the weekend and a total gross of $341.23 million.
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Star Trek Beyond had created a buzz among the audience since the trailer of the film was released on the various social media platforms and on YouTube and really loved by the audience.
Paramount’s latest instalment in the 50-year-old franchise took US$59.3 million (RM242.181 million), according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations – a 15 per cent drop on the opening for 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness. The film Star Trek Beyond is based on the series Star Trek which is created by Gene Roddenberry.
For its part, Warner Bros. found another low-budget horror hit in “Lights Out”, but 20th Century Fox’s fifth “Ice Age” collapsed.
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.
“Star Trek Beyond”, the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (“The Fast and the Furious” franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her intrepid crew. “Lights Out” tied with “Ghostbusters” for third place with $21.6 million, while “Ice Age” debuted with $21 million.
Paramount has tried to acquaint overseas audiences with the franchise as its sequels have come out, said Mr. Moore.
Americans may be losing interest in the “Ice Age” characters, but the series has always been mostly a play for global sales. $63 million has been generated internationally, giving it a $323.7 million worldwide total. Despite critical praise, the beleaguered $144 million production of Ghostbusters is suffering worldwide, potentially from both a campaign against the film since the release of its first trailer and a lack of release in China…in any case, the estimated $21.6 million has added to a worldwide total of $122.9 million, far below its break-even point. With so many outrageously expensive films being DOA at the box office, could we see a change in the way Hollywood makes movies in general?
But how did the rest of the Top 10 do at the weekend box office?
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Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, a documentary about presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, debuted at number nine after taking $3.7m (£2.8m). From 313 locations, the Fox Searchlight picture made $1.8 million and a per-screen average of $6,006.
