As reported by Airlock Alpha, Tuesday’s domestic take of &_#36;538,205 was enough to catapult Star Trek XI over Star Trek: The Motion Picture, to take the title of the original highest grossing Star Trek film. Star Trek: The Motion Picture earned &_#36;82.3 million in 1979, which would equate to about &_#36;240.9 million today. Star Trek XI‘s domestic earnings stand at &_#36;241,361,911 as of yesterday.

Star Trek XI is expected to conclude its run earning almost &_#36;250 million dollars in domestic sales, far surpassing the last Star Trek movie (Star Trek: Nemesis) which earned &_#36;43.1 million back in 2002.

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As reported by Variety, Star Trek XI has earned &_#36;311 million dollars in a little less than four weeks and is now the top domestic film of 2009. Domestic sales add up to 209.5 million dollars.

As reported by Variety, the first quarter for Paramount was a dismal one, with the studio posting a &_#36;123 million operating loss. “We were in a situation where we weren’t fully in control of our release slate,” said Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman. “We now have full control of our slate. We won’t be in a position where our big, franchise pictures are offset” by a handful of smaller, less successful films.”

“That’s why Star Trek is so important,” he added. “We greenlit Star Trek 2 several weeks before the release of 1 because we knew what we had.”

Star Trek XI continues to do well at the box office. It has earned &_#36;193 million in three weeks and is well on pace to become the highest grossing film of 2009. That position is currently held by Monsters vs. Aliens, which has been running for nine weeks.

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As reported by Variety, Angels and Demons was expected to have a strong opening, but Star Trek XI proved to be tough competition, earning only three million dollars less domestically for the weekend than Angels and Demons. Star Trek XI had a better opening weekend than Angels and Demons, earning thirty million dollars more.

Star Trek XI has raked in &_#36;147 million domestically since its release on May 7th, outperforming X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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As reported by Variety, Star Trek XI continues to rake in the money, easily outpacing X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which has grossed 136 millions dollars overall but has taken two weeks to reach that level.

The daily breakdown for the first week is as follows:

Friday, May 8: 30.8 million
Saturday, May 9: 27.2 million
Sunday, May 10: 21 million
Monday, May 11: 7.5 million
Tuesday, May 12: 6.5 million
Wednesday, May 13: 5.79 million
Thursday, May 14: 5.6 million

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Chris Pine Explains Kirk

2theadvocate.com, has posted a video of Chris Pine, where he talks about playing James T. Kirk.

“James Kirk is everything you’d want to be,” he said, listing all of Kirk’s personality traits. “The process of the movie is how is this guy going to take all of this disparate energies and kind of mold them into the form of a Captain?”

Smith a Pine Fan

Director Kevin Smith credits Star Trek XI‘s success to Chris Pine, as reported by MTV, “I think what makes that movie work chiefly, aside from, of course, the talents who all came together behind it, is Chris Pine,” he said. “That dude is astounding. To be able to invoke Kirk without doing a Shatner impression? That performance was so electric and so wonderful to watch. That dude is an instant movie star. That dude is gonna work forever. He’s so good and effortless in his delivery”

Cho Talks Sulu

As reported by BlackBook, getting out of the bridge chair was satisfying for John Cho. “I was excited about that,” he said. “If I had one small complaint about the original series I wanted to see my man get out of the chair, beam down, mix it up and get into some tussles. That’s exactly what Sulu does in this movie, and I was really thrilled when I read it. It was a revelation.”

Cho had to learn some martial arts to prepare for his fight with some of Nero’s Romulans. “Ironically, I have spent my career trying to avoid martial arts parts because I thought that my time would be better served doing things that people didn’t expect from Asians,” he said. “Come to find I really enjoyed myself. I started from ground zero. I learned Tae Kwon Do. The stunt guys are brilliant. They really tailor our movements to our characters.”

Spock: Reflections

Spock: Reflections, a comics miniseries produced by IDW Publishing, will debut in July. This new series of comics is a follow-up to Star Trek: Countdown, but will be set prior to that series in the original timeline. Spock: Reflections will explain why Spock ended up on Romulus.

Several examples of artwork from the forthcoming comic have been posted at TrekNews.de.

Star Trek Parody Comic

Speaking of comics, a new parody comic series has begun at MotionPicturesComics.com.