&#39;Hero&#39; crushes the &#39;Anacondas&#39; at the box office
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Action thrillers seem to be ruling the roost in Hollywood these days with &#39;Hero&#39;, a Chinese film that raked in 17.8 million dollars to top the charts last week.
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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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"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 -- Hero, director Zhang Yimou&#39;s acclaimed martial-arts epic starring Jet Li, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and superbabies to debut as the top weekend film, earning $17.
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Well, the clash of the titans turned not to be not quite so titanic after all. After Pixarâs latest animated fest, The Incredibles, blitzed to the top of the US box office charts last week with a company
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The most expensive film in French history is released to scathing reviews but is proof that there remains a market for its hero
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; the big-budget  movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6  million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and  bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according  to studio estimates on Sunday.
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The computer-animated family movie &quot;The Incredibles&quot; struck a resounding chord this weekend, taking in an estimated $70.
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Los Angeles: Super-hero spoof &#39;The Incredibles&#39; overpowered the competition at North American box offices, taking $70.4 mn in its opening weekend, final figures showed on Monday.
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Chinese martial arts thriller &quot;Hero&quot; logged a second weekend at the top of the North American box office during the US Labor Day holiday, while four new entries failed to make much of an impression.
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Disney/Pixar&#39;s The Incredibles has taken $70.7 million (Â£38.1m) in its opening weekend in the US, making it the best ever three-day weekend total for film released by Disney.
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Hollywood's box office record books have been transformed. The sci-fi adventure "Transformers" had an unprecedented Tuesday haul of $27.4 million in its official debut, beating a record of $15.7 million set last year by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
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In a case of life imitating art, a Houston movie theater has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake spotted by a maintenance worker.    Among the movies playing at the 16-screen Tinseltown theater is the horror-thriller "Anacondas."    Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc., said the worker saw a snake about a week ago that he described as thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall...
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Chinese martial-arts thriller &quot;Hero,&quot; directed by acclaimed director Zhang Yimou and starring action star Jet Li, snatched the No.
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The cartoon favorite makes a killing at the box office.
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An unexpected victor emerged in a weekend that pitted family-focused films at the box office, as &quot;National Treasure&quot; from Walt Disney Pictures - about a treasure
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with