The latest Star Trek film has seen off Iron Man 3′s challenge at the UK box office with a gigantic opening weekend.
According to official figures Star Trek Into Darkness, which features Benedict Cumberbatch as bad guy John Harrison, opened last Thursday and took an impressive £8.4m in its first four days of release.
And although it fell far short of the £13.7m opening weekend scored by Iron Man 3 two weeks ago, it still managed to knock the Robert Downey Jr blockbuster from the top spot.
That film fell to number two after a fortnight in pole position, but still took £3.2m to bring its total so far to £32m.
Elsewhere it was a relatively quiet week at the box office as the two early summer hits dominated – with last week’s number two, 21 And Over, falling to three with £580,981.
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All Stars, with takings of £498,334, and The Croods, with £383,502, completed the top five.
The only other new entry in this week’s charts was the Matthew McConaughey drama Mud, in which he stars as a fugitive who befriends two teenage boys after they discover him living on a remote island.
The film, which opened in a fairly limited release of 71 screens, took £237,000 in its first weekend to finish in seventh place.
Next weekend will see Star Trek face competition from Baz Luhrmann’s much-hyped adaptation of The Great Gatsby, as well as action sequel Fast And Furious 6.
