&#39;Hero&#39; Holds Off Rivals at Weak US Box Office
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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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&quot;Superman Returns&quot; leapt in a  single bound to the front of the box office in its first  weekend, but the man of steel found the iron women of &quot;The  Devil Wears Prada&quot; standing next in line with a dazzling debut.
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The hit superhero cartoon "The  Incredibles" retained its lead at the weekend box office in  North America, while the costly Tom Hanks holiday movie "The  Polar Express" opened at a distant No. 2, according to studio  estimates issued on Sunday.
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The hit superhero cartoon &quot;The Incredibles&quot; retained its lead at the weekend box office in North America, while the costly Tom Hanks holiday movie &quot;The Polar Express&quot; opened at a distant No.
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The bawdy Team America: World Police fell short of expectations this weekend, taking in $12.3 million for third place, according to estimates from box office trackers Nielsen EDI.
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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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Nicolas Cage&#39;s new adventure flick claimed the box-office crown once again by burying the competition. Thanksgiving weekend moviegoers made &quot;National Treasure&quot; the #1 film at the box office for the second week in a row.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s thriller ``The Grudge,&#39;&#39; starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, opened as the top movie at US and Canadian theaters this weekend, with $40 million in ticket sales.
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Miramax Films, heading into the  weekend, aims to keep the Chinese-language martial-arts epic  "Hero" atop box office charts where it landed last week in a  surprise showing built on a novel marketing strategy.
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Animated autos retained the pole position as &quot;Cars&quot; came in No. 1 at the box office for a second weekend with &#36;31.2 million, holding off the wrestling comedy &quot;Nacho Libre&quot; and another car tale, &quot;The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.&quot;
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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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LOS ANGELES The acclaimed Jet Li martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; took in an estimated 17-point-eight (m) million dollars to rank Number One in the weekend box office.
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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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LOS ANGELES, Nov 1  - Horror flick &quot;The Grudge&quot; scared the life out of the competition at the North American box office last weekend, raking in 21.
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Septemberâs slow box office showed no signs of letting up this weekend. It had been hoped that the opening of âSky Captain and the World of Tomorrowâ would bring audiences to the movies.
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The Incredibles continues to rule the US box office.
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The haunted-house thriller &quot;The Grudge,&quot; starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, held on to the No. 1 slot at the North American box office, scaring up $22.