Did you know that 300 had the third-best start for an R-rated movie, ever? It did! Learn this and other amazing facts by perusing the weekend box office numbers:

1. 300—$70.025 million
A what-the-fuck run at the box office featuring a $44 million opening for Nic Cage art film Ghost Rider and $38 million for critic-proof John Travolta leather-daddy road-trip picture Wild Hogs just got what-the-fuckier with 300 setting the record for the best-ever March debut. Even the president of Warner Bros. distribution dared to dream of a $35-$40 million first weekend, underestimating the public's appetite for epic, CGI-enhanced Greek bondage flicks (sweaty six-packs really pop with computer highlighting) by about half.

2. Wild Hogs—$28.021 million
We keep referring to Hogs as a John Travolta vehicle, which unfairly neglects the important falling-off-of-motorcycles and struck-in-the-genitals contributions of co-stars Martin Lawrence, Tim Allen, and William H. Macy. Their sacrifices shall no longer go unheralded.

3. Bridge to Terabithia—$6.865 million
4. Ghost Rider—$6.8 million
We're actually starting to look forward to Dead Silence and Premonition cracking the top five next week.

5. Zodiac—$6.773 million
We finally got around to seeing Zodiac, and now we think we feel Jake Gyllenhaal's pain; it must have been frustrating for the actor to endure dozens of takes of pounding on various locked doors during mood-setting downpours knowing that his pneumonia-induced shivering might never look authentic enough for his notoriously exacting director.

• March 9-11, 2007 Studio Estimates [Box Office Mojo]

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