"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 action film holds on to the top box office spot.
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Three new movies make U.S. debuts  and one independent film, shark tale "Open Water," expands  nationwide on Friday as the summer winds down to what should be  a record box office haul fueled by hit sequels.
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Maybe script rewrites aren&#39;t such a bad omen after all. Despite a story overhaul and having been almost entirely reshot, Exorcist: The Beginning surprised analysts by taking the top spot at theaters over the weekend.
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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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It took a little magic and a lot of   money, but "The Illusionist" has steadily moved up box office   charts in recent weeks with the backing of an upstart   distributor for a movie that Hollywood had refused to touch.
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Nicolas Cage has been officially confirmed as aboard the Ghost Rider project.
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Supernatural thriller "The  Forgotten" soared to the top of the U.S. box office over the  weekend with better-than-expected ticket sales during a  worse-than-usual seasonal slump.
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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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Nicholas Cage received the best opening weekend in his career so far with the number one box office movie in North America, Ghost Rider.  With over $44 million, this number one hit is the biggest blockbuster opening this year.  Coming in at numb...
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"Ocean's Twelve" sailed to the top of the international box office this weekend, and "The Incredibles" flew past &#36;300 million during a busy period that also saw encouraging debuts for "Ray" and "The Aviator."
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LOS ANGELES  - 20th Century Fox has  moved up its Dennis Quaid adventure film "Flight of the  Phoenix" by five days to Dec. 17 to fill the hole left by "The  Aviator," which Miramax has moved to Christmas weekend.
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Nicolas Cage's action movie "Ghost Rider" broke the record for the U.S. Presidents Day holiday weekend with ticket sales of $51.5 million, while four other movies also opened strongly, according to studio estimates issued on Monday.
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The supernatural thriller &quot;The Forgotten&quot; scared up the biggest bucks at North America box office over the weekend, according to preliminary studio estimatesreleased Sunday.
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Hollywood is dealing  moviegoers a wild card this weekend. Industry experts are all  over the map as to how well, or not so well, New Line Cinema's  Internet phenomenon "Snakes on a Plane" will do at the domestic  boxoffice.
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"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" caught the nationwide wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates.
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The first fall weekend  is sometimes a surprise at the North American box office.