&#39;SpongeBob&#39; Squeezed Out Of Top Spot By &#39;National Treasure&#39;
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The positions of the two new films in this week&#39;s box-office top 10 were easy to predict: #1 if by land, #2 if by sea. New releases &quot;National Treasure&quot; and &quot;The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie&quot; took spots one and two, respectively.
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Buena Vista&#39;s National Treasure grossed $35 million its premier week, topping the US box office, boxofficemojo.com estimated Sunday.
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The $150-million epic film "Alexander" lost the box office battle, bringing in a lowly $13.5 million to land in the No. 6 spot. Nicolas Cage's "National Treasure" held on to the No. 1 spot for the second week with $33.1 million, while "The In...
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More moviegoers used the Thanksgiving weekend to catch up with the hits &quot;National Treasure&quot; and &quot;The Incredibles&quot; than to see the year&#39;s two biggest holiday-theme flicks or the new epic &quot;Alexander.
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The animated sea animals of DreamWorks&#39; latest project have been out for blood since they first dove into the box-office waters, and they still haven&#39;t had their fill.
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Three years ago, &#36;654 million smash  hit movie &quot;Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl&quot;  handed its Hollywood makers a devil of a dilemma: How the heck  to top it?
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If you&#39;re going to tell a wildly implausible tale of fortune hunting and unlikely heroes, you could do worse than &quot;National Treasure.
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The Founding Fathers keep earning interest on their loot. Nicolas Cage's "National Treasure," about a race to find a fortune hidden by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was the top movie for a third straight weekend with &#36;17.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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Despite mediocre reviews, &#39;National Treasure,&#39; the action adventure film starring Nicolas Cage, took home first place at the box office this weekend with a take of $35.3 million.
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&quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s a Series of Unfortunate Events,&quot; based on Daniel Handler&#39;s offbeat children&#39;s books and starring the suitably bizarre Jim Carrey, raked in $30.2 million to leave both &quot;Ocean&#39;s
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By Mike Duffy, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 18--It's no secret that "SpongeBob SquarePants" soaks up young viewers.
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The inflatable cartoon character was taken from a Burger King in northeast Ohio last week. Police in Vermillion say they found SpongeBob at a house down the street.
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'Ocean's Thirteen' hits it big at No. 1 LOS ANGELES, June 10 (UPI) -- Ocean's Thirteen beat the house in its debut, as the ensemble caper claimed the top spot in U.S. box office receipts with an estimated $37 million.  Danny Ocean and Co. knocked Capt.
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, strikes gold at the US and Canada box office.
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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage&#39;s new adventure movie &quot;National Treasure&quot; unseated the animation hit &quot;The Incredibles&quot; over the weekend as the No.
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Nicholas Cage's adventure flick 'National Treasure' kept discovering gold at the North American box office this weekend, beating out a slate of animated and holiday releases for the third week in a  row, early figures showed on Sunday.