Maybe the movie should’ve been called The Bourne Treasury.
Jason Bourne, which marked Matt Damon’s fourth turn as the character, topped the box office this week, gunning its way to an estimated $60 million in North America to finish well ahead of the pack.
This new Bourne kicked poor Star Trek Beyond right out of the box office’s No. 1 crib. Kirk, Spock et al throttled the Enterprise down to impulse power, losing nearly 60% of their weekend-over-weekend audience and collecting just a mere 24 million in galactic credits. And while Star Trek’s weekend did push its overall domestic gross to $105.7 million, give or take, it seems that the franchise may be losing a bit of thrust.
Bad Moms suffered a bad debut, mopping up $23.4 million and finishing slightly below most prognosticators’ expectations. The movie did finish in third place, however, and like our mother always told us, winning isn’t everything.
The Secret Life of Pets slipped to fourth place and $18.2 million, bringing its total haul of Kibble to $296.2 million. That puts it seventh on the year’s list of highest-grossing movies—one of four animated films to qualify thus far for the Top 10. (The others include Finding Dory at No. 1 with $469 million; Zootopia at No. 5 with $341.3 million; and, at No. 9, Kung Fu Panda 3, with $143.5 million.)
Lights Out closed out the Top Five, flickering dimly with $10.8 million. Meanwhile Nerve, the third wide release of the weekend, could only muster a $9 million, eighth-place finish, trailing both Ice Age: Collision Course ($10.5 million) and Ghostbusters ($9.8 million).
Final figures update: 1. Jason Bourne, $59.2 million; 2. Star Trek Beyond, $24.8 million; 3. Bad Moms, $23.8 million; 4. The Secret Life of Pets, $18.9 million; 5. Ice Age: Collision Course, $11 million.
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