The Vow Easily Beating Ghost Rider At The Box Office

There are some splashy new movies out in and yet neither of them are looking capable of tackling the monster hits from last weekend. Early box office numbers indicate that The Vow and Safe House are looking strong enough to top the box office, leaving no room for releases like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance or This Means War to make it to the top. That said, Spirit of Vengeance is at least going pretty well for itself, making $7 million on Friday, which put it in second place for Friday just behind The Vow, which made $7.4 million.

To see how strong the holdovers are, just look at what happened on Valentine's Day, when The Vow brought in a record-breaking $11.6 million from date night couples. According to the numbers at Variety, while Ghost Rider may be running ahead of the similarly male-centric Safe House right now, superhero movies like that one tend to be frontloaded, so it will probably drop down as the weekend goes on to land in the mid-$20 million range. By comparison, the first Ghost Rider movie opened to $45 million, leaving this highly touted sequel with less than half.