The Star Trek franchise is still box-office gold.
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As for next week, Jason Bourne is back, and he knows everything. again.
Despite Star Trek Beyond Box Office raking up an awesome $59.6 million during its opening weekend, doubt has been raised as to the current series would deserve a fourth movie.
But making matters more dire: “Star Trek Beyond”, which was distributed by Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, had a costly budget of about $185 million.
“I think Star Trek in general has been about individual rights and about respecting everyone, no matter who or what the are”, said Brett Spiner, who played the android Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television and film series.
There really wasn’t anything at the box office this weekend to beat it.
“The third entry to J.J. Abrams” “Star Trek” universe took the top spot this weekend. ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ dropped 7% with a $70.1 million opening and closed with $228.7 million. Fox’s animated “Ice Age: Collision Course” debuted with $21 mn. Warner Bros.’ low-budget horror “Lights Out” opened with $21.6 mn – more than quadrupling its reported $5 mn budget – to tie with “Ghostbusters” for third place. Sure that was behind its predecessors, 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’sStar Trek Into Darkness, but it was solid enough. That’s not all that is happening in the world of Trek, and that’s why Star Trek has launched its first official Trek podcast: Engage with Jordan Hoffman. Globally it stands at $323.7M.
Other new entries in this week’s U.S. top 10 included Indian gangster film Kabali, which took $4.1m (£3.1m) to land at number eight. The Y 2009 film earned $129-M internationally.
Collision Course, marked a 5th-place finish, is faring better overseas, grossing another $30-M this weekend from 60 markets for a foreign take of $178-M and global box office of $199-M.
In other box office news, Indian gangster drama Kabali (Tamil & Telugu), from director Pa. Ranjith, landed at No. 9 with $4.1 million, while Dinesh D’Souza’s new Hillary Clinton documentary, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, landed at No. 10 with $3.7 million.
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Year-to-date box office is up 2.3%, according to comScore.
