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Angels blessed the U.S. box office

Da Vinci Code Angels and Demon result is a rose to the top of the U.S. and Canada box office chart, taking $ 48m (£ 31.4m) in its first weekend.

The companies from Friday to Sunday put Ron Howard's thriller well before Star Trek, last week's number one movie.

However, his haul was dwarfed by the $ 77.1m (£ 50.6m) The Da Vinci Code, in its first weekend, when it opened the North American cinemas in May 2006.

Overall Angels made $ 152m (£ 99.6m) worldwide ticket sales over the weekend.

Based on the new Dan Brown, the Tom Hanks film believes his Harvard on academic evidence of the deadly conspiracy.

Although the movie again features dismal settlement with the Catholic Church, but its release has largely been free from controversy that surrounded its predecessor.

Star Trek second weekend saw JJ Abrams' prequel to the original TV series to take $ 43m (£ 28m), the U.S. and Canada.

This gives it a pre-X-Men origins: Wolverine, the third weekend of $ 14.8m businesses (£ 9.7m) saw it fall in one place to three.

On the whole it was another robust weekend at North American cinemas - supported by the fact Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracker Media count.

"We have a name on a record-breaking summer," he said. "If you have a blockbuster with the pipeline, you're very lucky."

This week sees the other effects, Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum 2, to make its debut on both sides of the Atlantic.

Since the U.S. and Canada, however, it has stiff competition from Terminator Salvation, the last payment, which futuristic franchise.