Going into the weekend, there was speculation that Trek might actually have the warp power to beat out the newly debuting Angels & Demons to hold onto the top box office spot for a second weekend, becoming the first Trek to do so since First Contact. The results are in, and it didn't happen.

Angels & Demons, sequel to The Da Vinci Code, debuted with a $48 million opening weekend. Star Trek was a close second, with $43 million and lost only 42% of its audience for last weekend.

Even though it missed repeating at number one, Star Trek's numbers are still quite an accomplishment. Most summer blockbusters lose at least 50% of their audience in their second weekend. Trek beat the numbers and came extremely close to beating out a newer film in Angels. Moral victory goes to Star Trek and sci-fi nerds everywhere.

In the process of winning that moral victory, Trek has already become the biggest grossing Star Trek movie of all time. The previous Trek champ was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which earned $109 million domestically. Add in this weekend's totals and this new Trek has already earned an impressive $147 million.

Star Trek is back, and bigger than ever. JJ Abrams reboot of the original fanboy franchise opened this weekend and scored bigger audiences than any Trek movie ever has before. No previous franchise entry has ever opened to more than a $30 million opening weekend, until now. Star Trek grossed $72 million in it's first three days of release.

To put that in perspective, that's significantly more than the last film, Star Trek: Nemesis grossed in its entire theatrical run. Nemesis, the franchise's worst performing entry only earned $43 million total.

Before this weekend, the biggest Star Trek film of all time was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which earned a total of $109 million during its theatrical run. Adjusted for inflation, in 2009 dollars that's $212 million. Star Trek has a long way to go before it'll cross that high water mark, but with such a massive, opening weekend it's off to a great start. It's suddenly cool to be Trekkie.
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Nobody's likely to mention it in this context, since science fiction is now a dirty word in Hollywood, but science fiction is exactly what Monsters vs. Aliens is. And whether they call it sci-fi or not, America clearly loves it.

The animated comedy was #1 at the box office this past weekend, with big numbers. The film earned $58 million from Friday through Sunday, easily trouncing #2 horror movie The Haunting in Connecticut.

Meanwhile last week's top finishing science fiction movie Knowing held on to land in third place. In fact all of the year's highest grossing films, with the exception of Paul Blart: Mall Cop have been flat out science fiction. So here's my question: Science fiction seems to be what America wants. When are we allowed to stop hiding our heads, pretending it's something else, and admit we're a nation of geeks? Or are we all still afraid of being pantsed?

For detailed weekend box office results click over to our sister site Cinema Blend.

It's been savaged by critics and attacked from all sides, but Knowing, the new sci-fi film from genre master Alex Proyas is the number one movie in America. We nerds still have a little mojo.

The movie earned nearly $25 million to capture the number one slot ahead of the hilarious new comedy I Love You, Man and even further ahead of the new Julia Roberts/Clive Owen spy flick Duplicity. Granted $25 million isn't exactly a world beating box office number, but it's respectable, in March, for a movie that hasn't exactly received Watchmen level advertising.

Here's the full weekend box office breakdown. For more details check out the chart on our sister site Cinema Blend.

After delays, controversy, and years in development hell, the much anticipated geek movie Fanboys hit theaters this weekend. See it fast, it may not be there for long.

The movie opened in an extremely limited run. Only 44 theaters, mostly in New York and Los Angeles,. Granted with such a limited release you don’t expect big box office, but to have any hope of expanding into a wider release it probably needed to make more than $164,000. more...

Wall-E scraped together approximately $63 million in its opening weekend to take the number one spot at last weekend's box office. The $63 million made Wall-E the third highest opening weekend ever for a Pixar film just after The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. So far, Wall-E is garnering universal praise from the likes of Cinema Blend, Rolling Stone, an, hell, even the Wall Street Journal loved it. High praise indeed! With the five day long Independence Day weekend beginning today, expect Wall-E to take in an additional $60 million by Sunday evening.