Jet Li's 'Hero' Tops Box Office in Debut
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"Hero," Jet Li's acclaimed martial-arts epic, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and a gang of superbabies to debut as the top weekend film with &#36;17.8 million.
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LOS ANGELES Jet Li&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; fought off the competition to top the weekend box office. &quot;Hero,&quot; which was nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award for 2002, took in 17-point-eight (m) million dollars.
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"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" caught a wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates as of Sunday morning.
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After 2 years&#39; long wait, the Zhang Yimou movie &quot;Hero&quot; has nabbed the chance to make its debut in US. Featuring Chinese martial art and ancient love story, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung, star the movie.
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The dragon fantasy  "Eragon" sold an estimated $30.3 million worth of tickets  during its first weekend of foreign release, propelling the  youth-slanted adventure to the No. 1 slot overseas.
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The much-anticipated &quot;House of Flying Daggers&quot; (Shimian Maifu), a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; has met with a mixed market response.
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The Forgotten had a memorable debut, dominating the weekend box office with an opening take of $22 million, according to preliminary numbers Sunday.
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âI Am Legendâ hauled in an estimated $76.5 million in its debut to capture first place in the weekend box-office rankings compiled by the tracking company Media by Numbers.
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Animated superheroes crushed the competition at the box office as &quot;The Incredibles&quot; debuted with a $70.5 million opening weekend.
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HERO With Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen. Director: Zhang Yimou(1:36). With English subtitles. PG-13: Stylized martial-arts violence and a scene of sensuality.
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Jet Li wants to touch your soul before he kicks your butt. The Hong Kong action star says too many martial-arts movies ignore heart and emotion in favor of vengeance and gore.
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Jet Li's Chinese martial-arts epic "Hero" relegated four new movies to the nether regions of the box office in what ended up as one of the most feeble Labor Day weekends in memory.
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Sci-fi thriller I Am Legend starring Will Smith scores a record opening in the US and Canada box office chart.
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Nicholas Cage received the best opening weekend in his career so far with the number one box office movie in North America, Ghost Rider.  With over $44 million, this number one hit is the biggest blockbuster opening this year.  Coming in at numb...
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Two years after opening in China, the martial arts thriller &quot;Hero&quot; set a record for an Asian film in North America, kicking off at No.
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&quot;Harry Potter and the  Order of the Phoenix&quot; opened a powerful No. 1 on the  international circuit during the weekend, setting a record for  the franchise by grossing an estimated $190.3 million from more  than 12,000 screens in 44 territories.
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All it took to beat back Satan and an army of oversized snakes at the box office was some Zen-like concentration. Quentin Tarantino may be the real hero of the #1 Jet Li film &quot;Hero.