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It is Saturday, and Casino Royale has been in theaters now for a little over a day. The amount of buzz that the film has managed to generate has been unprecedented in the history of MovieSay (we started calculating film buzz early last summer). In fact, Casino Royale’s current buzz rating has broken all records, topping movies like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Snakes on a Plane, The Departed and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

This is especially impressive considering that the movie has only been in the cinemas for such a short while. The pre-release buzz, of course, was more than for any other film so far measured, but even then the film has been able to generate increasingly more and more buzz in the past two days. It will be interesting to see how far it will go come Tuesday, which is when the buzz rating usually peaks for new films. (This is due to the fact that buzz rankings for new movies are based on the previous three days.)

To see the current buzz standings, see buzz rankings for movies now in theaters.

The enormously successful opening of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed last weekend is, based on buzz calculations, by and large all that movie goers are talking about before this weekend. Not only has the film broken the 100 decibel line (see buzz ratings for movies now in theaters), but it has also left all the other movies far behind in the rankings: the second placed Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which led The Departed in pre-release buzz, is currently at only 51dB.

It is more than probable that this weekend’s major openers, The Grudge 2 and the Robin Williams starring Man of the Year will not be able to threaten the top spot. Indeed, it may well be until the opening of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette on October 20th that The Departed will remain the most talked about current movie.

In order to see the buzz rankings for movies now in theaters, see here. For more about Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, see IMDb.

The weekend box-office results are in, and it is again time to look at how they correspond with how much the movies are currently talked about on the Internet.

After the weekend buzz has now been counted in, Jackass: Number Two continues as the most talked about movie currently in theaters, which should not come as a surprise to anyone, as this weekend saw no real contenders for the top spot. The situation is expected to change, however, with next weekend’s release of the Martin Scorses movie The Departed, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other big-name Hollywood stars.

The controversial documentary Jesus Camp has, meanwhile, climbed up in the rankings, and currently finds itself third in the listings. With overall movie buzz currently being at its lowest for weeks, none of the top ten movies seems to have much going on for it.

Of the new movies, this weekend’s box office winnner, Sony’s animated Open Season, places 12th, while the currently highest ranking new film is School for Scoundrels, finding itself 11th and neck to neck with Open Season.

Top ten movies ranking by the weekend box-office, with current buzz data

1. Open Season - $24 million - Buzz: 27dB (#12)
2. The Guardian - $18 million - Buzz: 24dB (#15)
3. Jackass: Number Two - $15 million - Buzz: 39dB (#1)
4. School for Scoundrels - $9 million - Buzz: 27dB (#11)
5. Jet Li’s Fearless - $5 million - Buzz: 25dB (#14)
6. Gridiron Gang - $5 million - Buzz: 21dB (#18)
7. The Illusionist - $3 million - Buzz: 14dB (#24)
8. Flyboys - $2 million - Buzz: 32dB (#7)
9. The Black Dahlia - $2 million - Buzz: 3dB (#2)
10. Little Miss Sunshine - $2 million - Buzz: 33dB (#4)

Of the three movies opening wide this weekend, none seem to be stirring the imaginations of the movie-going public enough to create any real amount of pre-release buzz. In Movie Say’s buzz rankings, School of Scoundrels currently finds itself 28th, Open Season 40th, and Guardian 41st. The film can be found in the “now in theaters” list, which also includes the movies opening this week.

In fact, even two films on limited release this weekend fare better than the three wide releases: the controversial Jesus Camp (opened last week and adding more theaters now) is currently 8th in the buzz rankings, while the British film The Last King of Scotland (opening this week) that stars Forest Whitaker as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, finds itself 25th in the rankings.

It is, in the end, highly unlikely that come Monday any film can threaten Jackass: Number Two’s hold of the top position as the most talked about movie currently in theaters.