Friday night Estimates:

1. GHOST RIDER SONY 1,777 15,859,000 8,925 n/a 15,859,000
2. BRIDGE TO TERABETHIA BVI 2,284 6,345,000 2,778 n/a 6,345,000
3. NORBIT PARAMOUNT 3,136 4,520,000 1,441 -56% 46,625,000
4. MUSIC AND LYRICS WARNER BROS. 2,929 4,147,000 1,416 n/a 9,667,000
5. DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS LIONS GATE 2,111 2,981,000 1,412 n/a 8,651,000
6. BREACH UNIVERSAL 2,806 2,961,000 1,055 n/a 2,961,000
7. HANNIBAL RISING MGM 3,003 1,617,000 538 -66% 18,287,000
8. BECAUSE I SAID SO UNIVERSAL 2,529 1,438,000 569 -48% 30,091,000
9. MESSENGERS, THE SCREEN GEMS 2,529 1,129,000 446 -52% 28,327,000
10. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,702 845,000 313 -34% 234,748,000

Wow, those are big numbers for Ghost Rider. I did not expect that since he's one of the "lesser" Marvel superheroes.

Nice to see Ghost Rider do well. I haven't caught it yet so hopefully I don't change my mind and think it should have done worse At this point i'm glad to see comic book movies continue to have success.

I caught Ghost Rider yesterday at 12:30 and it was packed, not surprised at the big number. Wish I liked the movie a little more though...

Wow, that's a damn huge number for Ghost Rider. Maybe $40+ mil for the three-day.

Not a bad start.

Hannibal Rising doesn't seem to be faring too well. More like Hannibal Falling.

wow! i am really surprised at the GR #'s. the trailers made it look horrible, but i think the Cage cache is still working for him. hell, i'd see it just for him as well.

Oh...if Daddy's Little Girls ends up 4th or 5th this weekend, I will be a happy man.

As expected dumb teenagers are lining up to see ghost rider this weekend.

dumb? or horny? Eva Mendes

With that take, it's more then just teenagers. And i'm planning on seeing it and consider myself neither dumb, nor a teenager

What does that have to do with anything? Have you seen it? I am not a teenager I am probably what is considered middle age and I saw it and actually enjoyed it.

It always a head scratcher when bad movies do beter than good/great films. Last King of Scotland came and went but a dumbass film like Norbit stays hot.

Ghost Rider has done really well, to bad it sucks. Maybe it will finally spur a Werewolf by Night film...

I'm not suprised Ghost Rider is pulling in big numbers this weekend, but the real test will be whether it can sustain any of this into the next weekend, or if it'll have a Daredevil or Hulk style drop-off.

Maybe this will finally put an end to the idiots will still think February is a "dumping ground."

It'll be the latter.

I really, really loved Bridge to Terabithia so I am glad it is doing well too.

I meant to see Ghost Rider as well, but it was sold out the whole day at my local theater so I hadn't a chance. I don't think they planned on it doing quite that well.

Wow. Someone else who knows of this comic? Sweet.

Why? McDonalds is the leader in Fast Food and their food isn't steller. AOL was a popular internet provider and their service is pretty low quaility. Folks go to Olive Garden for Italian food... Clearly, what the masses do doesn't equal quality.

Besides that, it's no surprise that GOOD films don't do all that well. Folks generally go for the easy pleaser. The film that will automaticlly offer laughs or a means to escape the daily life they live.

Ghost Rider may suck but it's a film you leave your brain at the door and open up those Harley Davidson desires that you always liked but never had the balls to live. That and it's a flaming fuck'n skeleton on a bike. How bitchin' is that shit, yo! see.. you can tell the mentality there and why they are excited over that over some real life event that may not be very "bitchin'" in the last king of scottland.

Well said!! It always amazes me when people bitch about movies making money just because THEY think the movie is crap. I have seen all kinds classics and stinkers, and am glad they make money so more movies can be made. It is weird that some get so pissed when a movie they feel has no value makes more money than one they feel is a classic... And don't give me the argument that movies like Ghost Rider will keep movies that are more dramatic, better quality etc... from being made, it won't.

I guess delaying the opening paid off. I think this is the only major movie that had a panel at Comic-Con two years in a row.

Nic Cage is such a teen heartthrob.

I'm not going this weekend, but I do want to see it (I'm 31, btw). More because of some misguided obligation to see every film adaption of comics that I used to collect, but still...

Saturday:

1. GHOST RIDER SONY 1,777 17,699,000 9,960 n/a 33,558,000
2. BRIDGE TO TERABETHIA BVI 2,284 9,037,100 3,957 n/a 15,382,100
3. NORBIT PARAMOUNT 3,136 7,042,000 2,246 -52% 53,667,000
4. MUSIC AND LYRICS WARNER BROS. 2,929 5,104,000 1,743 n/a 14,771,000
5. DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS LIONS GATE 2,111 5,041,000 2,388 n/a 13,692,000
6. BREACH UNIVERSAL 2,806 4,333,000 1,544 n/a 7,294,000
7. HANNIBAL RISING MGM 3,003 2,210,000 736 -56% 20,497,000
8. BECAUSE I SAID SO UNIVERSAL 2,529 2,106,000 833 -49% 32,197,000
9. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,702 1,589,000 588 -44% 236,337,000
10. MESSENGERS, THE SCREEN GEMS 2,529 1,521,000 601 -53% 29,848,000

Wow...huge numbers for Ghost Rider!