"Ghost Rider" set to speed past box office rookies
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LOS ANGELES  - "Ghost Rider" and "Bridge to Terabithia" could lead the box office for a second weekend, despite the arrival of three new wide releases, including Jim Carrey's first thriller, "The Number 23."
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The horror prequel Exorcist: The   Beginning grabbed possession of the top box-office spot with an   estimated &#36;18.1 million.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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Exorcist: The Beginning, a film that had to be reshot because the first version was not scary enough, led the box office over the weekend, as moviegoers flocked to the resurrection of an aging franchise.
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Satan's bounty hunter has looted the wallets of movie-goers. "Ghost Rider," Sony's comic-book adaptation starring Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stunt driver moonlighting as a collector of evil souls for the devil, debuted as the top weekend movie with $44.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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While Hollywood  celebrated the finest achievement in film last weekend,  moviegoers across North America rewarded the critically  maligned mass-market entry "Ghost Rider."
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The Nicolas Cage action  movie &quot;Ghost Rider&quot; blasted its way to the top of the national  DVD sales and rental charts, according to data issued  Wednesday.
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After last weekend's take ran 10% behind the comparable number for the preceding year, distributors are hoping that the national boxoffice will begin to stage a rally this weekend. And hopes are riding highest on Sony Pictures' supernatural thriller "The Forgotten."
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Movie-goers showed that they weren't afraid of the "Boogeyman," pushing the horror flick to the top of the weekend box office with a &#36;19.5 million debut.
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LOS ANGELES  - Domestic champion "Ghost Rider" also led the weekend box office overseas, after earning $16.4 million from 25 markets.
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LOS ANGELES - It's been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like "The Forgotten," which claimed the No. 1 box office spot over the weekend, scaring up $22 million...
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The demon thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning" opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing "Alien vs. Predator," which tumbled to No. 4 with $12.5 million, studio estimates showed.
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Mark Wahlberg remained invincible at the box office over the long Labor Day weekend. Disney's "Invincible," with Wahlberg as a pro football rookie who makes the team in open tryouts, was the No. 1 movie for the second straight weekend, taking in $15.2 million from Friday through Monday, according to studio estimates. The movie lifted its 11-day total to $37.8 million.
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LOS ANGELES  - Wes Bentley has signed  on to play the bad guy opposite Nicolas Cage in the Marvel  Comics adaptation "Ghost Rider."
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Overseas boxoffice tends to slacken at this time of the year, but two newcomers -- "Shark Tale" and "Wimbledon" -- showed early promise in kickoff dates over the weekend, while M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" topped &#36;100 million in international gross and "Garfield" neared membership in the &#36;100 million club.
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The film will go as an independant entry.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Nicolas Cage action movie "Ghost Rider" blasted its way to the top of the national DVD sales and rental charts, according to data issued Wednesday.