&#39;Hero&#39; Conquers Satan, Snakes To Take Top Box-Office Slot
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All it took to beat back Satan and an army of oversized snakes at the box office was some Zen-like concentration. Quentin Tarantino may be the real hero of the #1 Jet Li film &quot;Hero.
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The demon thriller &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; debuted at No. 1 with $18.1 million, displacing &quot;Alien vs. Predator,&quot; which tumbled from the top spot to No.
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&quot;Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver  Surfer&quot; caught a wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the  weekend North American box office, according to studio  estimates as of Sunday morning.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic, &quot;Ying xiong,&quot; or &quot;Hero.&quot; Miramax, Biskind says, hoped that &quot;Hero&quot; might become the next &quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&quot; It didn&#39;t, though. The company bungled the picture&#39;s release, reportedly ...
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Following are the top 10 movies at  the North American box office for the three-day weekend  beginning March 9, led by the new release "300," according to  studio estimates released on Sunday.
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; the big-budget  movie about alien robots battling on Earth, crushed the  competition in theaters over the weekend, racking up $67.6  million in three days to land at No. 1 on box office charts,  according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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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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"Transformers," the big-budget movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6 million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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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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[Hollywood News]: Washington, Oct 25 : Horror flick &quot;The Grudge&quot; emerged as the highest grossing film this weekend after earning a total of 40 million dollars, while the &quot;Shark Tale&quot;which has been reigning at the box office for the past three weeks has
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Nicolas Cage's comic book movie Ghost Rider holds top spot at the North American box office for a second week.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; the big-budget  movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6  million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and  bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according  to studio estimates on Sunday.
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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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Chinese martial arts thriller &quot;Hero&quot; logged a second weekend at the top of the North American box office during the US Labor Day holiday, while four new entries failed to make much of an impression.
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Hollywood is dealing  moviegoers a wild card this weekend. Industry experts are all  over the map as to how well, or not so well, New Line Cinema's  Internet phenomenon "Snakes on a Plane" will do at the domestic  boxoffice.