LOS ANGELES – Star Trek: Into Darkness has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it’s not setting any light-speed records with a debut that’s lower than the studio’s expectations.
The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009’s Star Trek, which opened with $75.2 million.
Since premiering Wednesday in huge-screen IMAX theatres and expanding Thursday to general cinemas, Into Darkness has pulled in $84.1 million, well below distributor Paramount’s initial forecast of $100 million. The film added $40 million overseas, pushing its total to $80.5 million since it began rolling out internationally a week earlier.
The Star Trek sequel bumped Iron Man 3 down to second place after two weekends on top. Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero saga took in $35.2 million domestically to lift its receipts to $337.1 million. Overseas, Iron Man 3 added $40.2 million, raising its international total to $736.2 million and its worldwide tally to nearly $1.1 billion.
While Iron Man 3 and Into Darkness did well overseas, they were outmatched by the debut of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, which followed its domestic debut a week earlier with a wide rollout internationally. Gatsby pulled in $42.1 million overseas, coming in a bit ahead of both Iron Man 3 and Into Darkness.
Domestically, Gatsby held up well at No. 3 with $23.4 million, lifting its total to $90.2 million.
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