The estimated $59.6 million opening for Star Trek Beyond is enough to take #1 for the weekend, but that's a 15% drop compared to the $70.1 million opening for Star Trek Into Darkness, and that's not including the $13.5 million it carried into the weekend after opening on a Thursday. Beyond has received strong reviews and opening day audiences gave it an "A-" CinemaScore, which is just off from the "A" both of the previous Trek installments received. The audience saw a demographic breakdown that was 57% male vs. 43% female and 73% of the audience was over the age of 25.

As for projecting an overall domestic performance, Star Trek Beyond is probably looking at a domestic haul around $180-190 million, a continued decline when compared to the $228.7 million Into Darkness delivered and $257.7 million 2009's Trek took in domestically. However, given Beyond's $185 million budget, all eyes will now turn toward the film's international performance.

In the end, Into Darkness came in below 2009's Star Trek reboot domestically, but outperformed the 2009 film internationally by $110 million. By comparison, with an estimated $30 million international debut in 37 overseas markets, Beyond is playing 35% above Star Trek, but 14% below Into Darkness.

In the UK it opened at #2 with an estimated $6.1 million, which is 15% below Star Trek and 37% below Into Darkness. In Germany the film opened in first with $4.5 million, 31% above Star Trek and 29% below Into Darkness and in Russia it opened #1 with $3.3 million, a 240% improvement over Star Trek and 13% above Into Darkness. It opened with $3 million in Australia as well as with $1 million in Taiwan, $932,000 in Italy, $912,000 in Thailand and $766,000 in Philippines. Upcoming key releases include France and Korea on August 18, Spain (Aug 19), Brazil (Sep 1), China and Mexico on September 2 and Japan on October 21.