“Star Trek Beyond” boldly went to the top of the box office in its weekend debut, sending “The Secret Life of Pets” to the doghouse in the number two spot.
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The film starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto reunites the Enterprise crew as they encounter an alien warrior race. So far, Star Trek has earned $30 million internationally to bring its current worldwide gross to $89.6 million in its first weekend. Here the film Star Trek Beyond is featuring more of the unbelievable stars of Hollywood and which is having a great fan following and includes Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto will be shown in the film as their role of Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock respectively.
The animated comedy “The Secret Life Of Pets” took second place with $29.3 million in its third weekend of release.
On the plus side, foreign audiences still love Manny the mammoth, Sid the ground sloth and Diego the sabre toothed tiger, voiced respectively by Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. Both films opened domestically this weekend, with the latest Star Trek topping charts with a $59.6 million debut.
Of note on the charts this weekend, is that Finding Dory’s $7.9 million has now helped it to become the 9th highest grossing domestic release of all time with $460.1 million.
There’s no other way to spin this than great for the studio, who spent just $4.9 million on production costs for the Teresa Palmer-led movie.
In an interview with IGN, the actor discusses not only why he nearly turned down the chance to return for Star Trek Beyond, as well as what it was that ultimately made him come back. Lights Out represents another massive success for New Line’s line of horror movies.
Ghostbusters could still pull down $150 million in North America by the time it ends its domestic run, but the film is going to need really strong legs overseas to make a profit. But the film already has an global take nearing $180 million. Precisely, 77 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences were not as enthusiastic (the B grade on CinemaScore).
Coming in just behind that was ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’, the fifth entry in the should-be-extinct animated franchise.
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In the final two slots, the latest political documentary from Dinesh D’Souza, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party carried the top ten for its second week of release as it opened in over 1,200 new theaters, earning an estimated $3.7 million but the ire of the critical community. Before its United States debut, the film, which had a $105-million production budget, had already logged an impressive $127 million internationally.
