Box office: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ debuts at #1
It’s a winning weekend for “Star Trek Beyond” with a $59.6 million finish and an 84% thumbs up on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The weekend’s other new sequel, “Ice Age: Collision Course” drastically underwhelmed with $21 million in fifth place. That is by far the worst opening of the series.
Star Trek Beyond premise: A surprise attack in outer space forces the Enterprise to crash-land on a mysterious world. The assault came from Krall (Idris Elba), a lizard-like dictator who derives his energy by sucking the life out of his victims. Krall needs an ancient and valuable artifact that’s aboard the badly damaged starship. Left stranded in a rugged wilderness, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the crew must now battle a deadly alien race while trying to find a way off their hostile planet.