Hero&#39; rises to challenge with $17.8 m
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&quot;Hero,&quot; Jet Li&#39;s acclaimed martial-arts epic, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and a gang of superbabies to debut as the top weekend film with $17.
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The Chinese martial-arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li, has topped the US box office in its first weekend. The film, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2002, grossed $17.
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Already having set a single-season record for prizemoney, he became the game&#39;s first $10m man as the $900,000 first prize pushed his 2004 earnings to $10.
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On Saturday, the 31-year-old can claim a piece of the world heavyweight crown with a win over Vitali Klitschko, capping a Rocky-like rise to the top.
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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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The world needs sporting heroes. They provide inspiration, a person whose feats others can seek to emulate. Twenty years ago, in a small village in Morocco with a magnificent view, a small
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A comic book hero mounts a comeback in the footsteps of many others.
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LOS ANGELES Jet Li&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; fought off the competition to top the weekend box office. &quot;Hero,&quot; which was nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award for 2002, took in 17-point-eight (m) million dollars.
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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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TORONTO -- Zhang Yimou&#39;s masterful film Hero brought Jet Li and Donnie Yen together for the first time in a decade. For martial arts fans, that is history in the making.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &quot;Hero,&quot; a two-year-old foreign language, martial arts film from China topped the national domestic box office this weekend earning nearly $18 million, according to estimates from distributor Miramax Films.
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The upstart miner has won a huge round as part of its hostile takeover bid for Gold Fields. It&#39;s not money in the bank yet, though.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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The good-hearted superhero satire &quot;The Incredibles&quot; soared to a skyscraping $70.7 million opening at the movie box office this weekend - a record for a Disney release.
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In the news release, Moniker Brings Multi-Milli
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.