Los Angeles: "Star Trek Beyond" topped the box office in its opening weekend, data showed Monday, but with underwhelming receipts that left analysts wondering whether it can live long and prosper.
Paramount´s latest installment in the 50-year-old franchise took $59.3 million, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations -- a 15 percent drop on the opening for 2013´s "Star Trek Into Darkness."
Box Office Mojo analyst Brad Brevet projected a final domestic haul of around $180 million for Justin Lin´s science-fiction adventure, which sees the USS Enterprise crew shipwrecked on a hostile planet.
That would be a marked decline on the $228.7 million take for "Into Darkness" and an even bigger drop on 2009´s "Star Trek," which delivered $257.7 million.
"However, given ´Beyond´´s $185 million budget, all eyes will now turn toward the film´s international performance," Brevet wrote.
"In the end, ´Into Darkness´ came in below 2009´s ´Star Trek´ reboot domestically, but outperformed the 2009 film internationally by $110 million."
"Star Trek Beyond" dislodged "The Secret Life of Pets" from two weeks in the top spot. "Pets," which racked up an impressive $104.4 million in its debut weekend, took in $29.6 million.
The Universal Pictures animated comedy follows two pet dogs let loose in New York City, featuring the voices of comedian Louis CK and actor Eric Stonestreet.
David Sandberg´s "Lights Out," a horror movie about a creature that only attacks in the dark, debuted in third place, taking in $21.7 million at the box office.
Close behind was "Ice Age: Collision Course" with a $21.4 million take in its debut.
The 3-D animated film -- with the slogan "Kiss your ice goodbye" -- features animals trying to fend off a meteor strike that would destroy the world.
"Ghostbusters" -- a remake of the 1984 supernatural comedy that replaces the male leads with women -- dropped to less than half of its opening weekend box office, taking in just $21 million.
Rounding out the top 10 films of the weekend were:
-- "Finding Dory" ($7.2 million)
-- "The Legend of Tarzan" ($6.6 million)
-- "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" ($4.4 million)
-- "Hillary´s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" ($3.7 million)
-- "The Infiltrator" ($3.3 million)
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