Star Trek Beyond has blasted to the top of the North American box office with a healthy $59.6 million (£45.3 million) debut.
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The Secret Life of Pets finished in second-place with $29.3 million, dropping 42% from last weekend. Here the film Star Trek Beyond is featuring more of the wonderful 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. For its part, Warner Bros. found another low-budget horror hit in “Lights Out”, but 20th Century Fox’s fifth “Ice Age” collapsed.
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary Clinton doc cracked the Top 10 in its nationwide expansion and “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” won over older women in its limited debut.
It took two weekends to know for sure, but Sony/Village Roadshow’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot bombed hard in its second weekend, taking in $6.2M on Friday (-63%) for an estimated three-day of $21 million and a total drop of around 55 percent.
Overseas, “Star Trek Beyond” has brought in $30 million.
It also bowed in a number of foreign markets, adding $30m to its take for a global figure of $89.6million. The film had one of best United States openings of summer to date, however it failed to match the opening of Star Trek: Into Darkness which debuted with $70m in 2013. “Star Trek Beyond” opened in line with industry expectations. Star Trek Beyond directed by the very awesome and the very talented Justin Lin and he had done a great job here in the film as well by his great experience. Lucky for the producers, Paramount Pictures’ tracking puts the movie’s performance as the same as its Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which ultimately grossed $682 million internationally previous year.
Domestically, the film will probably match its $185 million budget by the end of its run but because films typically need to make 2.5 times their budget to break even black (due to theater-studio profit splits and marketing spending), Beyond will have to perform especially well overseas to justify the already-announced fourth installment of the franchise.
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Jennifer Lopez band together in “Ice Age: Collision Course”.
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The Secret Life of Pets and Ghostbusters bested the weekend’s other new releases.
