Hollywood had another monster weekend without a single piece of talent warming a late-night host’s couch. Business was up 33 percent from the same weekend a year ago and yearly ticket sales have edged up 1.47 percent from the same point in 2006 after a rocky fall season, Exhibitor Relations says. “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” is Nicolas Cage’s second monster opening of the year with an estimated $45.5 million over three days, around $200,000 better than “Ghost Rider” Holdovers “I Am Legend” dropped 56 percent to $34.2 million and “Alvin in the Chipmunks” held extremely well at $29 million. “Charlie Wilson’s War” edged fellow newcomer and Best Picture aspirant “Sweeney Todd” out of fourth place with $9.6 million to $9.3 million, but “Charlie” has to be rated a disappointment at best because it was playing on twice as many screens as the Johnny Depp musical. “P.S. I Love You” was deader than Gerard Butler’s character with $6.5 million while the Judd Apatow-produced “Walk Hard” was even more DOA in eighth place (behind the month-old “Enchanted”) at $4.1 million. “The Golden Compass” plummeted another 55 percent to ninth place and $3.9 million for its third weekend, losing 575 screens and no doubt lots more next Tuesday, when three more titles open in wide release — a record eight new titles for the holiday weekend. “Juno” impregnated the top 10 with $3.9 million from only 304 screens and the second-best per-theater average out there, after “National Treasure.” Coming in at No. 11 and No. 12 were a pair of other Best Picture hopefuls, “Atonement” at $1.9 million and “No Country for Old Men” at $1.6 million.

