User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Preview: 'A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2' to Clean up

Disney's sequel of its predecessor "A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2", starring former "Jane Hoop Elementary" star Amy Tammie, should have a strong opening while kids are heading back to school.

PG rating sequel from "A BFF With Ghost Imagination", which made $84 million domestically, will likely to open as larger than its predecessor and focus on younger audiences. That's very impressive considering again kids are heading back to school and they decided to see the film they enjoyed since the first film. Next week it will be Labor Day meaning children will be out of school for the Holiday weekend, and can top next week's chart, which will not be bad despite its horrible 29 percent rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

Disney's late-summer hit "The Help" will be falling back to its original stop like it opened three weeks ago. However, the weekly drop rate has been impressively low and the $100 million mark should be within reach by Sunday night. Sony's debuting "Colombiana" will add some late-season sizzle to the mix, with Zoe Saldana kicking butt as a cold-blooded assassin in this stylized PG-13 romp. Expect a gross in the mid-teens as action aficionados hit theaters for a last blast of bloodshed.

Also opening this weekend is the offbeat, R-rated comedy "Our Idiot Bother" from the Weinstein Company and the producers of "Little Miss Sunshine." A low-teen debut is expected for the film starring comedy mainstay Paul Rudd as a stoned-out idealist who crashes into the lives of his sisters. Yet another horror remake creeps into theaters this weekend as Film District's "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" updates the 1973 TV movie of the same name with the unique sensibility of Guillermo del Toro, who served as co-screenwriter. Starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, this R-rated story of a young girl who discovers creatures in her new home is sure to send horror fans to the multiplex looking for a good scare and an opening weekend of around $11 million. Fox's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" enters its fourth weekend with a likely finish in the top five at around $8 million and close to $150 million in domestic revenue by Sunday night. ——— Paul Dergarabedian is president of the Box Office Division of Hollywood.com and a box office analyst for The Associated Press. ——— Online: www.Hollywood.com/boxoffice