"300" slaughters box office foes
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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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The battle for Hollywood Entertainment is being fought with plastic swords.
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Hollywood players pick sides in the competition between the HD DVD and Blu-ray standards.
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Five studios, 37  directors and scores of movie stars threw themselves at Zach  Helm's script.
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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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The Hollywood studios  have figured out how to counterprogram against the behemoth  weekend television event that is Super Bowl Sunday. Sony  Pictures and Universal Pictures both scored this frame at the  North American box office with two releases aimed specifically  at audiences not typically interested in the big game.
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LOS ANGELES  - The director of the upcoming ancient epic "300" is developing an action fantasy titled "Sucker Punch," a project he described as "an 'Alice in Wonderland' with machine guns."
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This week's Hollywood releases don't look promising at the box office.
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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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This weekend was to be one of Hollywood&#39;s fiercest showdowns between animated films. Then Jerry Bruckheimer blew the weekend to bits.
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SEAN HARRIGAN has a talent for making powerful enemies. Warren Buffet, the legendary investor, Michael Eisner, Disneyâs boss, Sanford Weill, the Citigroup chairman, and Richard Grasso, the former New York
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Oliver Stone, America&#39;s most controversial, Oscar-winning filmmaker, is waging war on the box office this weekend with ``Alexander,&#39;&#39; a violent, sexually combustible, nearly three-hour epic.
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As writers negotiate with producers for a bigger slice of online-distribution revenues, the possibility of actors and directors joining with disgruntled scribes for a megastrike rears its ugly head. It could simultaneously shutter the production of movies, TV and videogames.
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The violent video game &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas&quot; could eclipse Hollywood&#39;s most successful films, even as it draws the ire of critics.
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One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot and a brutal, operatically violent finale.
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Those darn aliens and  predators upset the box office hierarchy established during the  weekend before Christmas.
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U.S. director Zack Snyder uses cutting  edge technology to tell an ancient tale in his new film "300,"  an ultra-violent depiction of the legendary battle between  Spartans and Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.