"300" Slaughters Box Office Foes
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The epic novel-based film "300" is 2007's first blockbuster, opening this past weekend with $70.8 million -- more than the rest of the top 10 movies combined. The violent and visually arresting flick about the Battle of Thermopylae has broken the recor...
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With a massive  bloodletting at the climax of "The Departed" that left almost  no one standing, you'd think it would be hard to make a sequel.  A domestic take of $125.2 million is making Warner Bros.  Pictures and director Martin Scorsese think otherwise.
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A bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, â300â is about as violent as âApocalyptoâ and twice as stupid.
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The battle for Hollywood Entertainment is being fought with plastic swords.
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Blockbuster tries to remove Hollywood Entertainment from its list of ferocious competitors.
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God vs. Satan cast out space creatures at the box office.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios.
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One film had an unforgettable weekend at the American box office but, for the rest of the bunch, September continued to be something of a disappointment.
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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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Jackass: Number Two hits number one in the US box office, but Sean Penn's All The King's Men fares badly.
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Two new movies in  theaters boast grisly, disturbing violence that raises the  question: Where is the line between violent and too violent?
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When the violent video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" hits stores on Tuesday, its sales could eclipse Hollywood's most successful films, even as it draws the ire of critics.
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The ultra-bloody warrior film  "300," about a legendary battle between the Spartans and  Persians, seemed headed for U.S. box-office glory on Friday  with sell-out crowds flocking to early showings.
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A day after one of Hollywood's most  powerful men publicly scolded actor Tom Cruise, the film  capital began to think cost-conscious studios may finally be  fed up with giving stars the star treatment.
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Jason Stratham rampages through Los Angeles in this retread of ÂSpeed,Â but for a movie premised on unrelenting action, ÂCrankÂ proves fatally turgid.
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When the violent video game "Grand  Theft Auto: San Andreas" hits stores on Tuesday, its sales  could eclipse Hollywood's most successful films, even as it  draws the ire of critics.
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Epic war movie 300 lays claim to a US box office record with an opening weekend take of $70m (Â£36m).