Wanna Trade?

There may be four new films opening on this Friday, but given the breaking news about the foiled airline terror plot, movie industry watchers are talking about Oliver Stone's World Trade Center--in theaters since Wednesday, making $7.8 million in its first two days.

While Ben Fritz of Variety wonders Will terror take toll on 'Trade'? Recent events could affect Par pic's B.O. Joshua Rich of Entertainment Weekly feels, despite headlines of the terror plot and war in the Middle East , Americans will be ready for "World Trade Center" . His prediction: Oliver Stone's tribute to the heroes of 9/11 will be No. 1, doubling the opening-weekend take of "United 93"

Here's a rundown of the other openers:

Step Up (reviews) This film looks like it travels down a very familiar road ala 1987's Dirty Dancing; Publicity for Half Nelson (reviews) may be non existent--but critics love it; As a film with a "kids as superheroes in training "plot Zoom (reviews) looks very much like last year's Sky High (hey, I thought it was a lot of fun!); At first the horror film Pulse (reviews) looked pretty dumb---that was until I found out that genre favorite Wes Craven wrote the script...now at least I'm interested. The film stars TV's Veronica Mars herself--Kristen Bell, so you know fans of the The CW Television Network series will turn out to support her.