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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As Hollywood's labor dispute continues and rancor between the two sides grows,  some are looking to the directors to shout, "Action"
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Hollywood is counting on the impending arrival of a naughty chipmunk, a treasure hunter and Will Smith to reverse a lingering box office malaise that deepened over the weekend with disappointing sales for âThe Golden Compass.â  The movie business is ...
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.
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Ace director Steven Spielberg's version of the H G Wells classic, The War of the Worlds, is all set to overtake Titanic as the most expensive movie ever made.
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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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The characters in the western âDisappearancesâ speak in biblical cadences. The movieâs code, however, is the same kill-or-be-killed law of the jungle.
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Since the box office hit rock bottom last weekend, there's no place to go but up. And two films targeting very different audiences are looking to take advantage of the usual seasonal slump this weekend.
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By Goh Thean Eu  TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant Maxis Communications Bhd is expecting some 10,000 gamers to sign up for its latest mobile phone game called "Master of Maya" by year's end.  It has to date already achieved half the target set.
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The ancient battle of Thermopylae stars in 300, which debuts with opening-weekend ticket sales of $70 million. By the Associated Press. Plus: A gallery of photo stills from the film homage to Frank Miller's graphic novel.
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Business & money: Merger fever is sweeping the macho, cash-rich mining sector, but there are more than just egos involved
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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"Apocalypto" arrives in theaters Friday with an incongruous challenge &#151; its auteur, Mel Gibson, is both its biggest asset and biggest problem.
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Mel Gibson's bloody epic "Apocalypto" debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.
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Computer animation pioneers Pixar and Dreamworks have set the stage for a potentially bruising box office battle after both studios changed their schedules this week
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The Will Smith sci-fi  fantasy "I Am Legend" pulled in $33 million at the foreign box  office last weekend, while "The Golden Compass" tallied $23.1  million, two hefty totals reflecting strong post-holiday  business in many parts of the world.
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