&quot;Transformers&quot; grabs $8.8 million at box office
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; director  Michael Bay&#39;s screen interpretation of the Hasbro toy line,  rolled into theaters Monday and quickly amassed $8.8 million in  North America.
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&quot;Harry Potter and the Order of the  Phoenix&quot; whisked its way to No. 1 at movie box offices with  weekend ticket sales of $77.4 million and a five-day total of  just over $140 million, according to studio estimates on  Sunday.
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Animated film The Incredibles takes $44.3m on its first weekend on release outside the US and Canada.
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The animated comedy took in $31.7 million to hold the No. 1 spot for a second straight weekend. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place with $20.
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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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"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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Sci-fi action film &quot;Transformers&quot;  smashed another box-office record by grossing $29.1 million on  its second full day of release -- the most ever for a July 4  holiday, according to figures released on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Transformers," director Michael Bay's screen interpretation of the Hasbro toy line, rolled into theaters Monday and quickly amassed $8.8 million in North America.
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LOS ANGELES  - By the standard box  office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box  office derby with domestic ticket sales of $440 million. And  Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success,  was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic  gross to date of $119 million.
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The animated comedy held on to the number spot for a second weekend, taking in 31-point-seven (m) million dollars. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s high school football drama &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place, earning 20-point-six million dollars.
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LOS ANGELES Jet Li&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; fought off the competition to top the weekend box office. &quot;Hero,&quot; which was nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award for 2002, took in 17-point-eight (m) million dollars.
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Animated superheroes crushed the competition at the box office as &quot;The Incredibles&quot; debuted with a $70.5 million opening weekend.
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Fashion Wire Daily - There was only one place to be on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, and it wasn&#39;t Hollywood. Instead, the hot ticket in town was in Westwood, where Michael Bay introduced the world to his latest insane cinematic vision known simply as &quot;Transformers.&quot;
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Adam Sandler's comedy "Click," about a man whose universal remote takes over his life, debuted at #1 bringing in $40 million. "Click" bumped Disney-Pixar's "Cars" into second place with $22.5 million, raising its domestic total to $155.9 million. Jack ...
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&quot;Transformers&quot; is a  dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien  robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military  hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls  who love Popular Mechanics.
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While HD DVD may be trumpeting the success of Transformers, the format is still struggling to take the lead back from rival Blu-ray. Sony's format has seen sales of 2.6 million discs from January 1 to September 30, compared with 1.4 million discs sold on HD DVD.
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Sci-fi action film "Transformers" smashed another box-office record by grossing $29.1 million on its second full day of release -- the most ever for a July 4 holiday, according to figures released on Thursday.