Mayans, miners vie for box office supremacy
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LOS ANGELES  - It's likely to be a photo finish at the box office this weekend when three wide releases targeting adults -- "Blood Diamond," "Apocalypto" and "The Holiday" -- are sent out into the marketplace.
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When the violent video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas hits stores on Tuesday, its sales could eclipse Hollywood&#39;s most successful films, even as it draws the ire of critics.
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LOS ANGELES  - The ancient epic "300" came out fighting at the North American box office during its first day of release, and immediately staked out what's shaping up as a potentially record-breaking weekend.
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Find out how the movie Apocalypto's take on the mysterious collapse of Maya civilization stretches far beyond the truth.
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Hollywood players pick sides in the competition between the HD DVD and Blu-ray standards.
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Alien vs. Predator. Whoever wins, the rest of the   box-office contenders lose.
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Hollywoodâs glamour machine has gotten stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next monthâs Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away.
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Hollywood studios are expected to take record box office figures this year, beating 2002's $9.3 billion.
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CHANDLER, Ariz.  - From a wind-swept  industrial  site in the Sonoran Desert, Intel Corp. INTC.O, appears to be  gearing up for battle.
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Much like his bloody epic about  the death of Christ, a new Mel Gibson production about the  collapse of the Mayan civilization is angering members of the  culture it depicts even before it hits the screen.
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Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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There just might be  blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter  mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a  competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and  Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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These are some of the  curious  Friday clashes lined up for this December. Shah Rukh KhanÂs long-awaited film about reversed brain-drain Swades is eagerly awaited.
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With the competitive Bollywood movie industry making hundreds of films a year, new releases need a selling point -- and the people behind India and Pakistan's first co-production hope they're onto a winner.
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I Am Legend, starring Smith as a plague survivor who may be the last living human, debuted with $76.5 million, the biggest December opening ever and a personal best for one of Hollywood's top box-office champs
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After last weekend's take ran 10% behind the comparable number for the preceding year, distributors are hoping that the national boxoffice will begin to stage a rally this weekend. And hopes are riding highest on Sony Pictures' supernatural thriller "The Forgotten."
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Carlos Chex knows well the struggle of indigenous tribes to control their land, resources and destiny &#151; a battle his fellow Mayans in Guatemala have fought for years.