'Hero' Holds Off Rivals at Weak U.S. Box Office
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Chinese martial arts thriller  "Hero" logged a second weekend at the top of the North American  box office during the U.S. Labor Day holiday, while four new  entries failed to make much of an impression.
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The sci-fi thriller "Jumper" leaped to the No. 1 spot at the North American box office on Sunday as moviegoers ignored critics' dire warnings for a second weekend.
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Hollywood is only marginally ahead of its lackluster 2005 in terms of dollars and cents. Studios are miles ahead in terms of summer hits and misses, though.
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The much-anticipated &quot;House of Flying Daggers&quot; (Shimian Maifu), a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; has met with a mixed market response.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES  - Disney's "Invincible"   edged out newcomers "Crank" and "The Wicker Man" at the North   American box office during the Labor Day holiday weekend,   according to final data issued Tuesday.
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Warner Bros.' costly new movie "The Polar Express" failed to catch fire at weekend box offices, putting major pressure for success on the studio's five other films waiting in the wings this holiday movie season.
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Chinese martial arts thriller &quot;Hero&quot; continued to reign at North American box office during the US Labor Day holiday for the second week, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
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Hollywood's box office record books have been transformed. The sci-fi adventure "Transformers" had an unprecedented Tuesday haul of $27.4 million in its official debut, beating a record of $15.7 million set last year by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
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TORONTO--Despite the buzz surrounding Hollywood-backed   blockbusters like Brad Pitt's Babel and Sean Penn's All the   King's Men, audiences and film jurors gave their top praise to two   indies--one that flew in virtually under the radar, the other which   squawked its way to the headlines.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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Miramax Films, heading into the weekend, aims to keep the Chinese-language martial-arts epic "Hero" atop box office charts where it landed last week in a surprise showing built on a novel marketing strategy.
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"Evan Almighty" did not live up to its name at the weekend box office in North America.
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&quot;Superman Returns&quot; leapt in a  single bound to the front of the box office in its first  weekend, but the man of steel found the iron women of &quot;The  Devil Wears Prada&quot; standing next in line with a dazzling debut.
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Jet-Li&#39;s action flick &quot;Hero&quot; beat out &quot;Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid&quot; as the weekend&#39;s most-watched movie, according to media reports.
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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.