‘Star Trek Beyond’ boldly goes to top of weekend box office

It has grossed about $30 million in markets that represent about half the global box office.

The latest “Ice Age” installment came in fourth and features quite an array of vocal talents. However, Beyond will face tough competition for male audiences in the coming weeks from Jason Bourne and Suicide Squad.

Nearly tripling the grosses of Ice Age: Collision and Lights Out, Star Trek Beyond earned an estimated $59.6 million on about 3,928 screens in its opening week.

He likes to write a lot, as you can see. Sure that was behind its predecessors, 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’sStar Trek Into Darkness, but it was solid enough. The opening of “Beyond” dipped 15% from that and is poised to bow around $180 million. It still brought in $7.2 million, raising its gross to over $460 million.

The third film in the reboot franchise earned $59.6 million, far more than any other film over the weekend. Below it, the much kindlier reviewed The Infiltrator has not proven to be a widespread moneymaker (an estimated $3.3 million for a second weekend, $12.2 million in total), but with an unreported budget, its success has yet to be determined.

It earned another $178.9 million for a massive global take of nearly $200 million. It won’t be long now before Universal greenlights a sequel, which will probably steal the plot from “Toy Story 2′”. The low-cost movie also has strong reviews in its corner. Instead of the usual 30-something percent decline, their reboot dropped 53% and landed in the #3 spot. Here’s William Shatner as Capt. Kirk on the original TV and film “Star Trek” productions. It’s all profit from here on out.

Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Jennifer Lopez band together in “Ice Age: Collision Course”.

Meanwhile, the new horror movie “Lights Out” and the comedy “Ghostbusters”, which opened last week, reportedly tied for third place, both grossing $21.6 million. On the flip side, now a few weeks in, the movie’s worldwide returns are huge.

But how did the rest of the Top 10 do at the weekend box office? If the foreign returns remain strong, we’re bound to see a sixth one of these.

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.

Fox Searchlight’s Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, based on the hit British TV series, took in $1.9-M from 313 theaters.