Captain Kirk makes checkout.

From the moth box to the Stars: The new, rejuvenated "Star Trek" by director JJ Crew Abrams was well received by the German and American audiences - and in the USA had the best start of a movie from the sci-fi series.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - The best start of the year managed
"Star Trek" but then not, but that would be maybe a bit much to ask was. The cult still revered, but in recent years arg betulich become franchised around the starship Enterprise was from
Director J.J. Abrams extremely rejuvenated and with a
new crew provide cool, but the prejudice against science fiction in general, and the universe Trekkies in particular weighed heavily in the mass audience.

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Kirk actor Chris Pine in "Star Trek" franchise from the ice free

All the more astonishing that "Star Trek" on the last Friday in U.S. cinemas started, according to industry magazine "Focus on Film" by Sunday evening recordings 76.5 million U.S. dollars - as much as yet no "Star Trek" movie earlier in the American cinemas. Apparently it's Abrams, of its reputation as a producer of cult series such as "Alias" and "Lost" earned, managed to include a completely new audience for the veteran Sternensaga to conquer. And the end of the triumph at the box office is likely not over yet, because in this case, word of mouth plays a big role: the more people with good thoughts come from the film, the more movie-goers, with "Star Trek" nothing else to do want to have, could have a look at the film is still a chance.

The best start of the year, but still
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" in the previous week. The comic book adaptation lost much of its expected sales launch a 68 per cent, but remained with 27 million U.S. dollars at the weekend in second place sound - despite the "Star Trek" Competition in a similar genre. After ten days, the mutant spectacle with Hugh Jackman in the U.S. alone already recorded 129.6 million U.S. dollars.

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The week started in the romantic comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (" The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends ") landed with 10.4 million U.S. dollars to rank three. The Stalking-thriller" Obsessed "is followed in fourth place with 6, 6 million U.S. dollars - in total, the surprisingly successful movie starring Beyoncé Knowles and Ali Larter after the third weekend already implemented 56.2 million U.S. dollars, much for a relatively small production. fifth went to "17 Again" with 4.4 million U.S. dollars. The newly launched comedy crooks "Next Day Air" with rapper Mos Def in 1138 film was only four million U.S. dollars in sales - enough only for the sixth place.

Even in Germany, fans and curious people flocked in droves to the new "Star Trek" movie, quite as successful as in the United States was the Abrams adventure but not here. Similar to "Wolverine" in the previous week saw themselves as "Focus on Film" roughly 400,000 visitors to the movie - a solid but not outstanding result. However, we must turn the good weather for books, the cinema at the weekend brought a turnover decline. Only around one million tickets have been resolved, 200,000 fewer than in the previous week.

Second place went to "Wolverine" on the second weekend clearly losing popularity, and only attracted nearly 160,000 viewers. This placed the long-running
"Slumdog Millionaire" and Tony Gilroys espionage thriller
"Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" with 55,000 visitors. "Crank 2: High Voltage" decided the German top five with 35,000 Kinogängern.