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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.
Star Trek Into Darkness fared reasonably well in China back in 2013, grossing $25.8 million over its opening few days before ending with $57 million. The opening of “Beyond” dipped 15% from that and is poised to bow around $180 million.
British film Absolutely Fabulous has gone into the charts at number 14 after opening last week. With a price tag of $185 million, the space-based action movie has some ground to cover, but shouldn’t have too much problem doing so.
Sony’s Ghostbusters reboot fell to fifth place with £16.1 million in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to £66 million.
The animated film’s total in North America is now at $260.7 million, and its worldwide total stands at $323.7 million. It won’t be long now before Universal greenlights a sequel, which will probably steal the plot from “Toy Story 2′”. That suggests the film will also need to muster a strong worldwide performance, since ticket sales are shared with theater owners. Instead of the usual 30-something percent decline, their reboot dropped 53% and landed in the #3 spot.
Left to right: Anton Yelchin plays Chekov, Chris Pine plays Kirk and John Cho plays Sulu in “Star Trek Beyond”.
Ghostbusters is in a race for the actual numbers this weekend as it tied for third place with $21.6M and a new domestic total of $86.85M off of its $144M budget. “Pets”, which racked up an impressive $104.4 million in its debut weekend, took in $29.6 million. It’s all profit from here on out.
Ice Age: Collision Course had been expected to collect US$26 million to US$33.3 million on its debut for 21st Century Fox Inc’s film division.
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While animated features have cleaned up this year Ice Age: Collision Course had a disappointing $21 million take in its opening weekend. It opened in 46% of the marketplace at the weekend, grossing $30-M from 37 markets for a global bow of $89.6-M.
