'Ghost Rider' scares up &#36;44.5 million
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Satan's bounty hunter has looted the wallets of movie-goers.
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The ghosts came out at Disneyland  on Friday to help Walt Disney Co. bump up park attendance and  scare up a piece of the nearly $5 billion U.S. consumers are  expected to spend this year on Halloween.
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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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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-expected seasonal slump.
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The fright film "The Messengers," about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.
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The demon thriller &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing &quot;Alien vs.
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August 23, 2004 -- LOS ANGELES - &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning,&quot; a film that had to be reshot with a new director because the first version was not scary enough, led the box office over the weekend, as moviegoers once again flocked to the resurrection of an
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Critics weren&#39;t kind to it, but audiences took a shine to The Forgotten, which topped another weak movie weekend. The Julianne Moore thriller scared up $22 million, according to
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The monster thrill ride "Van Helsing," the first big movie of the summer, sold more than 2.5 million combined DVD and VHS units during its first day on store shelves Tuesday, generating an estimated &#36;50 million in gross consumer spending, according to sources.
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"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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Horror movie The Messengers tops the North American box office chart, according to studio estimates.
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Despite halfhearted  reviews, Nicolas Cage's "Ghost Rider" led the foreign box  office for a second weekend, according to final sales data  issued Monday.
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Halloween audiences were in the mood to be spooked this weekend. &#39;The Grudge,&#39; starring Sarah Michelle Gellar continued as the top grossing movie of the weekend for the second week in a row.
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"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" caught a wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates as of Sunday morning.
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Following are the top 10 movies at  the North American box office for the three-day portion of the  U.S. Presidents Day holiday weekend beginning February 16, led  by the new Nicolas Cage movie "Ghost Rider," according to  studio estimates released on Sunday.
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The comic-book adaptation "Ghost Rider" burned the competition at the weekend box office, fending off a rush of new movies to rake in $19.7 million in its second week, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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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.