“Star Trek” becomes the biggest opening for a Star Trek movie and is on its way to being the 2nd to crack $100 million

(Updated 5/12/09) With $72.50 million “Star Trek” becomes the biggest opening weekend ever for the franchise and if you add in the $4 million on Thursday, its already the 5th highest grossing movie in the franchise, and easily on track to be just the 2nd to crack the $100 million mark. (See more on the Star Trek franchise at the box office below)

The comedy “Next Day Air” opened in 6th with just $4 million at the box office.

Returns for “The Chaos Experiment”, were limited at just two Grand Rapids area theaters over the weekend with just 225 tickets sold for the R-rated thriller.

Overall, the weekend offerings were actually down 6% at the box office from last weekend’s huge $150 million weekend.

 TOP MOVIES AT WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (estimated results):
1. “Star Trek” – $76.50 million (includes $4.0 million Thursday) (1st week)

2. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” – $27.00 million
(2nd week, was #1 last week, lost 68% of audience from last week)

3. “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” – $10.45 million
(2nd week, was #2 last week, lost 32% of audience from last week)

4. “Obsessed”  – $6.60 million
(3rd week, was #3 last week, lost 45% of audience from last week)

5. “17 Again” – $4.41 million
(4th week, was #4 last week, lost 30% from last week)

6. “Next Day Air” – $4.00 million (1st week)

7. “The Soloist” – $3.61 million
(3rd week, was #6 last week, lost 36% from last week)

8. “Monsters vs. Aliens” – $3.38  million
(7th week, was #5 last week, lost 42% from last week)

9. “Earth” – $2.49 million
(3rd week, was #7 last week, lost 43% from last week)

10. “Hannah Montana The Movie” – $2.41 million
(5th week, was #9 last week, lost 42% from last week)

—

Breakdown of Star Trek movies historically at the box office:

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE  (December 7, 1979)
Opening Weekend:  $11,926,421
Domestic Total Gross: $82,258,456

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN  (June 4, 1982)
Opening Weekend:  $14,347,221
Domestic Total Gross: $78,912,963

STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK  (June 1, 1984)
Opening Weekend:  $16,673,295
Domestic Total Gross: $76,471,046

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME  (November 26, 1986)
Opening Weekend:  $16,881,888
Domestic Total Gross: $109,713,132* Highest grossing for franchise

STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER  (June 9, 1989)
Opening Weekend:  $17,375,648
Domestic Total Gross: $52,210,049

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY  (December 6, 1991)
Opening Weekend:  $18,162,837
Domestic Total Gross: $74,888,996

STAR TREK: GENERATIONS  (November 18, 1994)
Opening Weekend:  $23,116,394
Domestic Total Gross: $75,671,125

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT  (November 22, 1996)
Opening Weekend:  $30,716,131
Domestic Total Gross: $92,027,888

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION  (December 11, 1998)
Opening Weekend:  $22,052,836
Domestic Total Gross: $70,187,658

STAR TREK: NEMESIS  (December 13, 2002)
Opening Weekend:  $18,513,305
Domestic Total Gross: $43,254,409

STAR TREK  (May 5, 2009)
Opening Weekend:  $72,500,000* Biggest opening for franchise
Domestic Total Gross: $76,500,000* so far

CLICK HERE FOR LAST WEEK’S BOX OFFICE REPORT 

“Star Trek” poster courtesy Paramount Pictures

Box Office numbers courtesy Box Office Mojo