Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. Angels & Demons - $46,204,168
2. Star Trek - $43,034,547
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $14,702,425
4. Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past - $6,653,384
5. Obsessed - $4,588,973
6. 17 Again - $3,368,189
7. Monsters Vs. Aliens - $3,182,085
8. The Soloist - $2,402,801
9. Next Day Air - $2,244,878
10. Earth (2009) - $1,697,956
11. Hannah Montana The Movie - $1,613,180
12. Fighting - $1,113,525

Overall, the Box Office was down 8.4% on last weekend's total gross.

Leading the pack this weekend is the new Dan Brown novel adaptation ANGELS & DEMONS which took in $46.2M. This is a decent start for a film whose predecessor, THE DA VINCI CODE, was poorly regarded by the audience and left no desire for a follow up. Where it goes to from here is anybody's guess; although it is considered a better film than its predecessor, ANGELS & DEMONS is still dogged by claims of by-the-numbers plotting and ridiculous moments that can make you laugh. Given its $150M budget, it's a fair chance that the film will not recoup its budget back domestically and will have to rely on overseas grosses to get in to the black.

Not phased by the opening of ANGELS & DEMONS is the new sci-fi powerhouse STAR TREK which earned an incredibly strong $43M in its second weekend. The film lost only 43% of its audience which is unusual for a film of this genre and franchise, and is a testament to the film's spectacular word-of-mouth. The franchise is over 40 years old and it is only now that the film is reaching the mainstream audience, thanks largely to J.J. Abrams unique take on the material. STAR TREK is already the highest grossing film of the franchise, doing the feat in ten days and is be a big winner for distributor Paramount, ensuring that the series will now prosper well in to the future. The film currently stands with $147.6M in box office.

Holding reasonably well in face of the strong competition it faces is the number three film X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, which managed to drop only 44% to earn $14.7M in its third weekend. The film has now recouped its $150M budget domestically this weekend, although this is still disappointing given the huge opening it had. More thought will need to be put in to the inevitable sequel to make it a far superior product than this insipid entry in order to bring in movie-goers.

One other interesting story of the weekend is MONSTERS VS ALIENS, which is still bringing in a decent return despite having been in the market place for eight weeks. The film actually jumped from eighth spot last weekend to seventh spot this weekend, dropping only 2% and earning a solid $3.1M. Figures like these are highly unusual for normal films but the CG-animated variety have a tendancy to hold extremely well and despite this film's high budget of $175M, the film has now earned $190.7M and has a good shot at reaching $200M domestically before ending its run.

The US Box Office took in a total of $130,806,111 for the whole of the weekend 15-17 May 2009.