&#39;National Treasure&#39; Drowns &#39;Spongebob&#39;
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Spongebob Squarepants probably wouldn&#39;t have been out of place in Touchstone&#39;s National Treasure, but the equally cartoon-inspired Nicolas Cage actioner narrowly defeated the good-hearted animation at the box office this weekend.
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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage&#39;s new adventure movie &quot;National Treasure&quot; unseated the animation hit &quot;The Incredibles&quot; over the weekend as the No.
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It&#39;s sad when it looks like the actors and crew are having way more fun on the set than the audience is having, and that&#39;s what it seems like with &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve.
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Overcoming ordinary reviews, comic adventure National Treasure found quite a fortune across North America, digging up an estimated $35 million in three days.
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Nicolas Cage found box-office bullion with &quot;National Treasure,&quot; which took in $35.1 million over opening weekend to debut as the top movie.
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The positions of the two new films in this week&#39;s box-office top 10 were easy to predict: #1 if by land, #2 if by sea. New releases &quot;National Treasure&quot; and &quot;The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie&quot; took spots one and two, respectively.
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Two new films, National Treasure and SpongeBob SquarePants, and the expansion of Bridget Jones took on The Incredibles and The Polar Express this weekend in a race to the top.
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Disney&#39;s treasure-hunting thriller &quot;National Treasure&quot; continued to rule North America box office for the third week in a row at the post-Thanksgiving weekend, according to preliminary studio estimates released Sunday.
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&gt;&quot;National Treasure&quot; continued to strike box-office gold, taking in an estimated $33.1 million from Friday to Sunday to retain the No.
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Disney's uneven procession  of theatrical adaptations of its beloved film properties hits a  sour note with this charmless rendition of its smash 1989  animated film. Especially disappointing coming after the recent  superb version of "Mary Poppins," "The Little Mermaid" should  manage to attract its target audience through its title alone,  but longtime hit status seems far from assured.
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&#39;&#39;National Treasure,&quot; with Nicolas Cage hunting a hidden fortune, continued to strike box-office gold, taking in $33.1 million from Friday to yesterday to retain the No.
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Last night&#39;s 43-39 loss to the Dallas Cowboys before a Qwest Field-record crowd of 68,093 and a national &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; audience ebbed and flowed, but it was the Seahawks who drowned in their own mistakes and ineptitude.
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&quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead  Man&#039;s Chest&quot; sailed into more than 4,000 U.S. movie theaters on  Friday seeking a box office treasure that industry watchers  think could beat the &#36;114.8 million record opening of  &quot;Spider-Man.&quot;
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Peter Pan was the boy who would never grow old, but even the magical powers of Neverland can&#39;t stop time from running out on his copyright.
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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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When DreamWorks announced that it had a fish movie called &quot;Shark Tale&quot; slated for a fall release, the thought probably crossed more than a few minds that it might be too soon after the phenomenal success of &quot;Finding Nemo&quot; for another animated underwater
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CP) - Evil Plankton is the obvious suspect, but landlubbers are more likely to blame for a rash of thefts of 2.7-metre-tall and 2.7-metre-wide SpongeBob SquarePants inflatables propped on the roofs of Burger King restaurants.