As this weekend proves, you don’t have to be a nerd to be a ‘Star Trek’ fan.
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I’ve been waiting for the day that a ‘Star Trek’ movie opens north of $100 million. While early predictions made claims that we could see that happen this weekend, sadly, even with a fantastic sequel and the extra profit from 3D and IMAX showings, ‘Star Trek into Darkness<\/strong>‘ couldn’t pull it off.<\/p>\n Tony Stark and Jay Gatsby put up a strong fight, but J.J. Abrams’ second ‘Star Trek’ film pulled through. Playing on 3,868 screens across North America, ‘Darkness’ earned a healthy $70.5 million over the three-day weekend. $13.5 million of that came from its 336-screen IMAX release. If you include the totals from the Wednesday night IMAX-exclusive opening and Thursday’s wide release, Paramount has already earned $84 million domestically from the 12th motion picture in the ‘Trek’ series. Combined with the overseas totals, the film has already made $164.6 million.<\/p>\n To no one’s surprise, ‘Iron Man 3<\/strong>‘ finished in second place with a great $35.1 million. The Marvel movie has now earned $337 million domestically and $698.9 million overseas, pushing its worldwide haul well over the $1 billion milestone.<\/p>\n Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby<\/strong>‘ also held over very well, adding $23.4 million to its $90.1 million domestic total. It has been said that ‘Gatsby’ actually upset ‘Star Trek’ overseas, but no numbers for the international debut have been announced.<\/p>\n After the #3 spot, the remainder of the Top 10 totals drop between $3.1 million and $1.1 million. There are no surprises found within those seven titles.<\/p>\n The only of the indie releases to have box office numbers announced (so far) is Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha<\/strong>‘. Co-written by Baumbach and star Greta Gerwig, the dry dramedy earned $134,000 from just four screens, giving it a per-screen average of $33,500.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ (Paramount) – $70,555,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Iron Man 3’ (Buena Vista) – $35,182,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘The Great Gatsby’ (Warner Bros.) – $23,415,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Pain & Gain’ (Paramount) – $3,100,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘The Croods’ (Fox) – $2,750,000<\/p>\n 6. ’42’ (Warner Bros.) – $2,730,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Oblivion’ (Universal) – $2,222,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Mud’ (Roadside) – $2,160,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Peeples’ (Lionsgate) – $2,150,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘The Big Wedding’ (Lionsgate) – $1,100,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As this weekend proves, you don’t have to be a nerd to be a ‘Star Trek’ fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":51339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[178,6418,5133,188,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51454,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336\/revisions\/51454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n