'Covenant' leads weakest box office in three years
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The new supernatural thriller "The   Covenant" conjured up the lead at a sluggish weekend box office   in North America with the lowest sales for a No. 1 movie in   three years.
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Nicolas Cage logged a third weekend atop the North American box office on Sunday with his action-adventure "National Treasure," but overall ticket sales slid as movies competed for attention with shopping in the post-Thanksgiving holiday period.
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Marking the worst sales year on record, new home sales dropped by 26.4% last year to 774,000.
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.
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Fifth Third Bancorp, the ninth largest US bank, on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit will fall well short of analyst forecasts, as it takes $340 million of
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It was another down weekend at the box office, although moviegoers helped Sony Pictures and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson score with the football flick "Gridiron Gang."
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The penguin cartoon "Happy Feet" and the James Bond movie "Casino Royale" led a lackluster North American box office for a third weekend, while the new Jesus film "The Nativity Story" was stillborn.
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"The Bourne Supremacy" tried its best, but not even Matt Damon could kick "I, Robot" from the United Kingdom's top spot this weekend.
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The Will Smith sci-fi  fantasy "I Am Legend" pulled in $33 million at the foreign box  office last weekend, while "The Golden Compass" tallied $23.1  million, two hefty totals reflecting strong post-holiday  business in many parts of the world.
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"Meet the Fockers" dominated the box office last weekend, but the end-of-year period was a disappointing one in general for Hollywood.
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LOS ANGELES - It's been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like "The Forgotten," which claimed the No. 1 box office spot over the weekend, scaring up $22 million...
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The final curtain came down on the summer movie season with box office watchers on Tuesday reporting a near &#36;4 billion record haul led by sequels "Shrek 2" and "Spider-Man 2," even as admissions slipped 1.5 percent.
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&quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At  World&#39;s End,&quot; the third film in the Walt Disney Co&#39;s  multi-billion franchise, took in $58 million at worldwide box  offices in limited showings before its wider record-breaking  release on Friday, Disney said.
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The chemical maker reported a quarterly profit that was lower than expected, in part due to weak demand from the housing and auto markets.
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Retail sales in December were unexpectedly weak with the three month figure at its lowest since November 2006.
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Film industry forecasters were unanimous that &quot;The Grudge&quot; would wrestle the box-office crown away from three-time champ &quot;Shark Tale.
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The short has enjoyed a year of mainstream attention in movie theaters.