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...they've already enjoyed it and want to return. This weekend, obligation was represented by Angels & Demons, a sequel of sorts to the 2006 superhit The Da Vinci Code, with the same star, Tom Hanks, and director, Ron Howard; and pure movie pleasure, by last week's winner, Star Trek, which has enjoyed enthusiastic reviews and word of mouth. Angels beat Trek, but not quite in the way a debuting blockbuster should steamroll a movie that opened the previous weekend. (See TIME's photos of Star Trek's most notorious villains...
...movie version earned $77 million its first weekend. Angels, actually a prequel, didn't generate the kind of heat that spurs audiences to see it immediately. Also, Dan Brown, the author of both Da Vinci and Angels, is a powerhouse literary name but not yet a megamovie franchise; Star Trek, the latest in a series of film spin-offs that date back 30 years, has brand recognition few can match. And the target audience for best-selling novels made into movies is older than the action-fantasy crowd, and typically slower to get into theaters...
...Angels & Demons, $48 million, first weekend Star Trek, $43 million; $147.6 million, second week X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $14.8 million; $151.1 million, third week Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $6.8 million; $40.1 million, third week Obsessed, $4.6 million; $62.6 million, fourth week 17 Again, $3.4 million; $58.4 million, fifth week Monsters vs Aliens, $3 million; $190.6 million, eighth week The Soloist, $2.4 million; $27.5 million, fourth week Next Day Air, $2.3 million; $7.6 million, second week Earth, $1.7 million; $29.1 million, fourth week...
...TIME's top 10 Star Trek moments...
...Among the effects you won't see in Star Trek (the sensitive reader may wish to skip the rest of this paragraph, or story): a brief glimpse of sexual penetration, the whacking of an erect penis by a plank, the snipping off of a clitoris, in surgical closeup, and the boring of a hole through a man's leg, to which a heavy grinding wheel is attached. (Though the lead actors gave their all to the movie, the closing credits list stunt doubles, body doubles and special-effects artists...