Robots and ogre power Paramount to box office lead
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LOS ANGELES  - From menacing Spartan warriors to chipper singing chipmunks, 2007's boxoffice attractions spanned the gamut. Following a heated summer, there was a cooling-off spell during the fall, but the year still saw the domestic box office gross climb to a record $9.62 billion.
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The third Shrek film featuring the voices of Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake goes top of the UK box office.
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; the big-budget  movie about alien robots battling on Earth, crushed the  competition in theaters over the weekend, racking up $67.6  million in three days to land at No. 1 on box office charts,  according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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Sci-fi saga Transformers tops the North American box office chart, with takings of $68m in its first weekend.
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Sci-fi film Alien vs. Predator grosses $38.3m (Â£20.8m) at the US box office during its debut weekend.
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&quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow&quot; took the top spot at the weekend box office -- a rarity for an original science fiction film.
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While unleashing  &quot;Transformers&quot; onscreen this week, Paramount also lifted the  lid on a top-secret project in the form of a teaser trailer for  a new film, &quot;Cloverfield.&quot;
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The big-big-screen movie house gives the Hasbro robots another run for their money.
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Movie tie-in games tend to suck. Hope springs eternal, though, and the allure of giant transforming robots is keeping me at least a little bit hopeful for the Transformers games.
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Pixar Animation Studio reported on Thursday strong third-quarter results that were lifted by solid home video sales of its older blockbuster hits &quot;Finding Nemo&#39;&#39; and &quot;Monsters, Inc.
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After raking in millions at the box office, everyone's favorite ogre is headed for Broadway. Several noteworthy producers and writers are set to work on the musical including Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, and Jason Moore, who directed the Tony-win...
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Horror film Cloverfield goes straight to the top of the North American box office, with takings of $41m (Â£21m).
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Shares in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the producer of the Shrek movies, rose as much as 41 percent as investors bet the company can use $700 million of proceeds from its initial stock sale to challenge Pixar Animation Studios.
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'Transformers' bears the hallmarks of its executive producer, Steven Spielberg. The robotic story feels more human as a result.
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Animated film Shark Tale remains at the top of the US and Canada box office chart for a second week.
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Horror film Alien vs Predator: Requiem goes to the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart in its opening weekend.
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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."