FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Mel Gibson's 'Passion' Pays Off at Box Office

FOXNews.com: "'The Passion' put up the second-best five-day figures for a movie opening on Wednesday, behind last year's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' at $124.1 million and ahead of 'Star Wars: Episode I ? The Phantom Menace' at $105.6 million.
The first movie released in 2004 to cross the $100 million mark, 'The Passion' easily passed the weekend's No. 2 flick, '50 First Dates' at $88.7 million, as the year's top-grossing film. "