Friday Box Office: The Trek Begins

Star Trek had a fairly solid Friday figure -- $24 million to add to Thursday's $7 million -- though surely, Paramount would have liked a higher takeoff. Everyone in the industry is expecting good word-of-mouth and long legs for the reboot, but it remains to be seen if those will come in time to lift Trek's opening weekend out of the $60-70 million range. Still, at least that'll be more than double the previous highest weekend for the franchise: $30.7 million for 1996's Star Trek: First Contact.

1. STAR TREK: $24,000,000 (new)

2. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE: $8,500,000 ($111,124,000)

3. GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST: $3,135,000 ($22,931,000)

4. OBSESSED: $2,050,000 ($51,697,000)

5. NEXT DAY AIR: $1,425,000 (new)

6. 17 AGAIN: $1,260,000 ($51,022,000)

7. THE SOLOIST: $980,000 ($20,876,000)

8. FIGHTING: $686,000 ($19,129,000)

9. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS: $675,000 ($184,189,000)

10. EARTH: $670,000 ($24,268,000)

Figures courtesy of Box Office Mojo