Alexander loses box-office war
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With Alexander mortally wounded in the first round, and Christmas With The Kranks not tickling enough funny bones, last week&#39;s champ National Treasure held on to its position with an impressive $32 million over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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Greek lawyers are giving up efforts to  have a new Hollywood film banned and its makers sued for  depicting Alexander the Great as a bisexual.
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In this photo from Warner Bros., Angelia Jolie, Val Kilmer, background, and Collin Farrell, right, as Alexander the Great, appear in Alexander.
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A group of Greek lawyers angry at the portrayal of Alexander the Great as a bisexual in the Hollywood movie "Alexander" indicated late Thursday they had no plans to take legal action against the movie.
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Oliver Stone's epic Alexander enters the US box office at number six,  taking just $13.5m (Â£7m).
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Midway through a sentence, Jared Leto asked, &quot;How long is the movie now? Five or six hours?&quot;. Not quite. Oliver Stone&#39;s &quot;Alexander&quot; actually ended up clocking in at a meaty 173 minutes, but that&#39;s
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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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Controversy over Oliver Stoneâs depiction of Alexander the Great as a bisexual returns the filmmaker to the familiar role of historical revisionist.
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Oliver Stone says he thinks his historical epic Alexander will receive better press in Europe after poor US reviews.
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ALEXANDER the Greatâs Macedonian army conquered an area stretching from Greece to India in the 4th century BC, but he is poised to conquer the world a second time thanks to a $155 million film version of his life by Oliver Stone.
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OK, that&#39;s an exaggeration. But to say this has been a bad year for ancient Greek battle films would be an understatement. Still, those who thought the fortunes of sword-and-tunic epics would be salvaged by Oliver Stone&#39;s Alexander were sorely mistaken.
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Alexander the Great may have conquered millions in his march across the Persian Empire 2,400 years ago but moviegoers in North America easily repelled his advances over the weekend.
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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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Deepa Mehta's Water loses out to The Lives of Others in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie turn out for the premiere of the epic movie Alexander in Los Angeles.
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Deepa Mehta's film loses out to Germany.
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With lavish attention to detail and a powerful cast, director Oliver Stone&#39;s &quot;Alexander&quot; is a thought-provoking, although long-winded, film about a man who, by 32, had solidified a massive empire