{"id":458,"date":"2007-02-18T23:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/18\/ghost-rider-storms-us-box-office\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T00:04:13","slug":"ghost-rider-storms-us-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/02\/18\/ghost-rider-storms-us-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Rider storms US box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie adaptation of Marvel comic book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0259324\/\"><strong>Ghost Rider<\/strong><\/a> has topped the US box office.<\/p>\n<p>David Germain of the AP <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070218\/ap_en_mo\/box_office\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Satan&#8217;s bounty hunter has looted the wallets of movie-goers. &#8220;Ghost Rider,&#8221; Sony&#8217;s comic-book adaptation starring Nicolas C<span class=\"yqimgins\">age<\/span> 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. <span class=\"yqimgins\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/ghostrider\">lacklustre reviews<\/a>, the fact that February is usually a quiet month and <a href=\"http:\/\/defamer.com\/hollywood\/nicolas-cage\/nicolas-cage-calls-out-ew-for-its-snobbishness-over-works-of-art-featuring-hogs-and-flaming-skulls-236422.php\">Nicolas Cage&#8217;s problems with Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, it seems that the champagne corks will be popping tonight at Sony.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this an unusually massive opening for this time of the year but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/corp\/aboutsonypictures.html\">the folks at Culver City<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/spiderman3\/site\/\">another Marvel hit<\/a> awaiting release on May 4th.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghost_Rider\">Find out more about the Ghost Rider character at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070218\/ap_en_mo\/box_office\">Original AP story at Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie adaptation of Marvel comic book Ghost Rider has topped the US box office. David Germain of the AP reports: Satan&#8217;s bounty hunter has looted the wallets of movie-goers. &#8220;Ghost Rider,&#8221; Sony&#8217;s comic-book adaptation starring Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stunt driver moonlighting as a collector of evil souls for the devil, debuted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}