“Star Trek Beyond” pulled in $23 million the first full week of September, according to film industry consulting firm Artisan Gateway. The movie earned $31.5 million in three days the previous week, when it beamed into the country.
The 13th “Trek” film should beat the Chinese box office of “Star Trek Into Darkness,” which came out in 2013 and grossed $57 million, about 12% of its $467-million haul. This time, Paramount
Pictures got help from Chinese backers Pictures and Huahua Media. Total sales already have reached almost $55 million.
The fantasy-adventure movie brought in nearly three times as much as its new runner-up, Columbia Pictures’ “The Shallows,” a survival thriller about a female surfer pursued by a great white shark.
The man vs. animal film, which features Blake Lively, came out Friday in China and made $8.5 million.
Source: Los Angeles Times by Jessica Meyers