"Gridiron," "Dahlia" take the field at box office
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Hollywood is counting on  "Gridiron Gang" and "The Black Dahlia" to provide a much-needed  lift at the box office, which dropped last weekend to levels  unseen in several years.
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Carrying a scoreless streak deep into October isn't one of the easier tasks to carry out on a gridiron.
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By Gary Levin  NBC has high hopes for Friday Night Lights, a new drama about a Texas high school football squad based on a best-selling book and feature film. Viewers will see some familiar names on the sidelines -- and not just the actors.
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Every medical decision the Giants make is funneled through a risk- reward assessment. If Jason Schmidt took his regular start in Florida on Tuesday, the potential reward would be one victory.
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LOS ANGELES  - The threat of Super Bowl  Sunday falls upon the box office this weekend.
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For many spectators at Gillette Stadium, the big battle was not the Patriotsâ 20-10 victory, but merely reaching their seats.
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The defending AFC North champs found their stride Sunday, and it had a lot to do with the broad-shouldered back who leaves tacklers wide-eyed and empty-handed.
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The ultra-bloody warrior film  "300," about a legendary battle between the Spartans and  Persians, seemed headed for U.S. box-office glory on Friday  with sell-out crowds flocking to early showings.
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The summer box office season in North America ended on an "Invincible" note during the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend as the Mark Wahlberg football movie scored a
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Apparently movie fans are ready for some football...and little   else.
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"Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason" was the No. 1 film at the international box office over the weekend with an estimated haul of &#36;26.7 million.
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The National Football Leagueâs pioneer globalizing expedition went even better than the leagueâs slick marketers could have anticipated.
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The new Mark Wahlberg football  drama "Invincible" lived up to its immodest name at the weekend  box office in North America but overall ticket sales resumed  their decline as the lucrative summer moviegoing period drew to  a close.
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Sony Pictures, riding  high at the box office with the comedy "Talladega Nights: The  Ballad of Ricky Bobby," has narrowly edged out Walt Disney Co.  to become the first studio to sell more than $1 billion worth  of tickets at the domestic box office this year.
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Talk about your hurry-up offense. During early scenes in &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; of a match between the 1988 Permian Panthers football team of Odessa, Texas, and some other high school&#39;s varsity
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LOS ANGELES  - For many films, this weekend will play like a two-day frame because of Sunday's Super Bowl -- which could carry a little gal named Hannah Montana to box-office glory.
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The robot aliens of âTransformersâ have sold $152.5 million in tickets at American theaters since that filmâs debut last Monday.