‘Star Trek Beyond’ brings in $59 million box office

While it has a lot of ground here and overseas to cover for its $185 million budgetary costs, Star Trek Beyond still took the weekend with an estimated $59.6 million, and with critical praise it appears to have enough positive buzz to keep afloat for long enough to turn a profit.

“Ice Age: Collision Course” was fifth with 21 million dollars.

However, the real victor was horror film Lights Out, which cost Warner Bros £3.8 million to make and landed in third place with £16.6 million out of the gate, studios said on Monday. But Star Trek Beyond’s $59.9m was enough to knock off last week’s number one, The Secret Life of Pets, which fell to number two after taking $29.3m. The studio was projecting sales in the high US$50 million range, with a chance of topping US$60 million. Expect sequels aplenty over the next several years. That’s led to a fight for control of the parent company.

In this image provided by Paramount Pictures, Sofia Boutella, left, plays Jaylah and Simon Pegg plays Scotty in Star Trek Beyond. At current projections, Lights Out’s domestic run alone should net somewhere in the region of about $55 million, which combined with whatever it makes internationally should make it one of the most profitable films of the year.

Here are the rest of the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at United States and Canadian theaters, according to comScore: 1.

Although Nimoy is gone, he’s a part of Star Trek Beyond, Quinto explains.

USA television network CBS celebrated the 50th anniversary of Star Trek at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, revealing that the keenly-awaited new series is to be called Star Trek Discovery.

Producer J.J. Abrams, who directed the previous two instalments in the sci-fiction franchise, led the cast and fans in a moment of silent reflection ahead of the film’s US premiere. “Star Trek Into Darkness” earned about million while the “Star Trek” reboot that premiered in 2009 brought in over million and cost less to make than the third installment.

20th Century Fox’s “Ice Age: Collision Course” has a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 13 percent and an unfavorable Metacritic score of 33. The fifth film in the series is apparently beginning to show its age with domestic audiences, but worldwide the film is approaching break-even numbers, with nearly $200 million in total. All of these were critical and box office successes warranting renewed interest in the franchise which lasts until today.