User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Sees Imagination Helps Our Colmbiana Idiot Brother Don't Be Afraid Of Hurricane Irene

Amy Tammie's A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2 rescues films and itself from falling short of the results of last year from hurricane irene as it actually dominated Friday box office grossing an outstanding $19.4 million.

While it receieved mostly negative and postive reviews, it should be able to gross the $50 million mark total on opening weekend. The first film has made $33 million.

Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard's The Help return to second pulling in $4.4 million and should end the weekend just north of $10 million.

Zoe Saldana in Luc Besson's Colombiana took second place with $3.75 million, while Don't Be Afraid of the Dark starring Katie Holmes scared up $3.6 million for third place. Both films will need minimal impact from Irene in order to reach $10 million for the weekend.

The other newcomer this week, Our Idiot Brother starring Paul Rudd, scraped together $2.6 million. Expect a $6 million or so weekend from the R-rated comedy.

Ahead of Our Idiot Brother in fifth place is Fox's Rise of the Planet of the Apes with $2.6 million. Caesar and friends should also finish the weekend in the $6 million range. Amazon.com is already taking pre-orders for the prequel on Blu-ray and DVD.

The complete weekend box office studio estimates will be published Sunday afternoon. You can see our Prophet and reader predictions for the weekend on our Weekend Box Office Prophet Game page.