'Million Dollar Baby' Tops With Critics
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"Million Dollar Baby," the story of a woman trying to rise above her hard-knock life by training as a boxer, was voted best film and earned awards for actress Hilary Swank and actor-director Clint Eastwood at the National Society of Film Critics awards Saturday.
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IN what is widely regarded as the curtain-raiser to Oscar season, a movie about the creator of Peter Pan, author JM Barrie, has been named Best Film by the US National Board of Review.
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Here is a list of the top five movies that are topping the charts.
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The little film with a big heart, Sideways, that cost a mere $15 million got more (seven) Golden Globe nominations than the $100 million plus The Aviator (six).
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A test-marketed film turns into a long-running hit
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Captain Jack Sparrow is Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby.
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Samuel L Jackson's Coach Carter tops the US box office in its opening week.
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Best picture contender  "The Departed" rode Oscar buzz to take the top spot on the  latest national DVD sales and rental charts.
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SYDNEY  - "Ocean's Twelve" sailed to  the top of the international box office this weekend, and "The  Incredibles" flew past $300 million during a busy period that  also saw encouraging debuts for "Ray" and "The Aviator."
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Ratings are based on the box office collections and the cost of the film.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jay Baruchel, hot off  his role as a deluded boxer in the Oscar-nominated "Million  Dollar Baby," has been tapped to star as a young prodigy lawyer  in an untitled drama pilot at the WB Network.
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Critics heaped lavish praise on the  world theater premiere of Mary Poppins on Thursday after it  took nearly $20 million in advance sales.
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(CBS/AP) Nicolas Cageâs fourth collaboration with mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer opened much stronger than expected this weekend.
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Proving that bad reviews don't necessarily bury you National   Treasure dug up an estimated &#36;35.2 million to top the nation's   weekend box-office.
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A group of leading U.S. film critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion drama "Vera Drake."
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The Oscar-nominated drama "Ray" grossed nearly &#36;80 million in its first week on home video, surpassing the biopic's &#36;74 million haul at the domestic box office, industry sources said.
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Cate Blanchett won the supporting actress honor Saturday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator." Morgan Freeman took the supporting actor prize for "Million Dollar Baby," playing a sage-like ex-prizefighter.