Presidents Day weekend is feeling a little like Christmas at the box office, with studios getting the gifts: Five movies — "Safe House," "The Vow," "Journey 2," "Ghost Rider 2" and "This Means War" — closed the four-day weekend with more than $20 million each.
It's the first non-summer weekend with five movies grossing more than $20 million — and the first such weekend at all since 2004.
Overall, the weekend is up 12 percent compared to the same weekend in 2011 — the seventh week in a row that the box-office has outperformed last year's.