‘Star Trek Beyond’ soars with $59M at weekend box office

This weekend, 50 years later and audiences are still lining up to see the Kirk-Spock bromance.

The box office numbers are in, and Star Trek Beyond has delivered one of the best openings of the summer so far, taking the No. 1 spot with $59.6 million.

Critics liked Star Trek Beyond, with the website RottenTomatoes.com registering 84% positive reviews. Paramount announced last week it was making a fourth “Star Trek” movie.

“That left Justin Lin, who made his bones on the “Fast & Furious” series, manning the Enterprise“.

SEE MORE: You Ruined It! The opening of “Beyond” dipped 15% from that and is poised to bow around $180 million. Fuller refrained from revealing exactly where on the timeline Discovery will be set (such as in relation to The Original Series), but fans are sure to be excited about the reveal that he did have at the panel. Finding Dory was in 6th place for the weekend, and with a total global take of $460.2 million, it is now the 9th highest grossing film of all time. That number is 14% less than what its predecessor managed in the same handful of territories, meaning that Beyond could feasibly fall short of the $238.6 million foreign gross of Into Darkness.

“We’re telling stories in a brand new way, not so much episodic”, he told a rapt Comic-Con audience. A rebound could be coming with next weekend’s Jason Bourne followed a week later by the buzzworthy Suicide Squad which is generating tremendous heat.

But how did the rest of the Top 10 do at the weekend box office?

The movie earned an A from Cinemascore and an 85% fresh score from Rotten Tomatoes. The drop still puts it on par for around a 3.5 multiple, which is typical for big-budget fanboy-based franchises. A finish in the $485-500M range seems likely.

The animated film’s total in North America is now at $260.7 million, and its worldwide total stands at $323.7 million. Though its parent studio, Warner Bros., had struggled of late, fielding duds such as “The Legend of Tarzan” and “The Nice Guys” New Line is enjoying a hot hand at the multiplexes. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates passed $40 million and Central Intelligence continues to have an impressive run by going past $120 million domestically.

A week after debuting in a handful of theatres, “Hillary’s America” expanded to 1,217 locations, picking up 3.7 million dollars.