As predicted, Star Trek debuted in the number one spot this weekend, grossing $72.5 (just $7.5 mil off my prediction).  It was enough for the second-highest debut of 2009, behind Wolverine‘s $85.1 million take last weekend.  Wolverine, meanwhile, landed in number two with $27 million, a 68% decline from its first weekend.   Matthew McConaughey’s Ghost of Girlfriends Past was number three with $10.5 million, and if you saw that movie, let’s never hang out.

The good news is that this week, the weekend number one actually deserved its success.  I saw Star Trek over the weekend, and it’s probably the best summer movie I’ve seen since Jurassic Park.  Actually, it’s probably better than Jurassic Park.  It’s tracking 94% on RottenTomatoes, and I imagine it will eventually overtake Wolverine on the strength of people seeing it two and three times.  Though admittedly, stupid people are hard to predict.  Or as I like to call it, the Paul Blart effect. Unrelated but also important, I think Wolverine and Spock would make a great gay couple.  Wolverine could be freaking out: “GAAAAARRGGGHHH! THE THROW PILLOWS DON’T MATCH THE DUVET!!” and then Spock would be all, “Come on, sweetie, let’s be logical about this..”   They’re opposites, but Wolverine can’t get enough of the Vulcan death grip.

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Touché, Asian guy, touché.  Also: I enjoy that his only movie-related props were made of foam.

[Thanks to RoboPanda for the tip]

These pictures of a naked Lucy Pinder dressed as Wolverine don’t really make any sense or have anything to do with anything, but on the internet, boobs = $, and daddy needs whiskey money.  I mean, uh, money to pay for my niece’s cancer operation.  See?  Bet you feel bad for calling me a pervert now, don’t you.  Also, I know this is off-topic, but what kind of underpants are you wearing?

[via HollywoodTuna. Wait, they don't have tuna in Hollywood, do th- oh.  I think I get it now.]

Variety today reports that Fox is planning a Deadpool movie, a spinoff of Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds’ character, making semi-official the speculation based on the ending of Wolverine.  What the hell does that mean?  See the spoiler-y explanation after the jump (though keep in mind this is Wolverine we’re talking about here, it’s kind of hard to spoil a movie about a guy with claws).

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^{MichelleRod can’t help but join in when she hears yelling – she’s like a coyote like that.}

Terminator Salvation isn’t out yet and Wolverine is currently tracking lower than X3 on rottentomatoes, but haha, no one cares about that!  We’re gonna make ten of each of these!

“I strongly suspect the next [Terminator] is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be f*cking awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.” [FilmJournal]

Dude, naked dudes everywhere?  That does sound awesome!  (*air guitar*)

Fox, Hugh Jackman and Seed Productions are in development on a Wolverine sequel, which will likely take place in Japan. The classic Claremont/Miller four-issue [comic-book] miniseries detailed how Wolverine trained as a samurai and ninja, fell in love with a woman named Mariko, and basically plotted his life as James Clavell fanfic [meaning tough, I guess]. [CHUD]

One of the best things about the first two X-Men was that we didn’t have to watch anyone train as a ninja or samurai.  Honestly, how many of those gd montages can Hollywood make?  I swear, you drop an atomic bomb on someone and you spend the next 60 years telling anyone who’ll listen “No, but really though, those guys were tough.”