Newcomers ignored as summer box office fades
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood attempted to squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the North American box office during the weekend.
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Hollywood's summer of event movies  starts winding down on Friday with two new films joining  Disney's "Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement," but gone are  the days when each weekend brought a major new movie with a  big-name star.
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Hollywood attempted to  squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching  a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the  North American box office during the weekend.
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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 second week at No. 1.
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Summer wound down with a yawn this weekend at the movie box office, where the Jet Li warrior epic &quot;Hero&quot; took the top spot over the scary-snake drama &quot;Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
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Late August generally is a time when Hollywood's studios dump movies for which they have low box office expectations, and this week continues that old philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.
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By the standard box office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box office derby with domestic ticket sales of &#36;440 million. And Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success, was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic gross to date of &#36;119 million.
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LOS ANGELES  - The first fall weekend   is sometimes a surprise at the North American box office.
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In the late days of summer, while still mostly unencumbered by any actual experience of the fall releases, The Times's chief film critics chatted about the season to come.
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Hollywood delivered an unprecedented number of sequels this summer. But only three films combined critical approval with box office success.
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The thriller starring Julianne Moore takes the top seat at the box office this weekend. Regardless of lukewarm reviews, Julianne Mooreâs thriller, âThe Forgottenâ, scared audiences this weekend, earning $22 million.
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One might imagine, similarly, that teenage moviegoers would see less television than their more movie-averse peers.  But that is not so, according to data from IMMI.
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Small-budget movies are making bigger hits than big-budget movies.
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This week's Hollywood releases don't look promising at the box office.
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Three new movies make U.S. debuts  and one independent film, shark tale "Open Water," expands  nationwide on Friday as the summer winds down to what should be  a record box office haul fueled by hit sequels.
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LOS ANGELES Just as the trailers for &quot;The Forgotten&quot; show creepy images of people being sucked into the atmosphere, the movie sucked people into theaters over the weekend.
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A series of low-budget, quirky Bollywood movies have emerged as surprise hits this summer as Indian audiences shun the traditional musical and action blockbusters.