"Promise to the Dead" faces exile at box office
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LOS ANGELES  - "A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman" starts with a reminder that the terrorist attacks of 2001 were not the first time that the date of September 11 was burned into a nation's collective memory.
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"The Covenant," a tale of super-powered teen warlocks brawling with each other, drew $8.9 million in ticket sales this weekend &#151; enough to grab the top box-office spot but with one of the lowest opening tallies posted by a No. 1 film in years.
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Supernatural thriller "The  Forgotten" soared to the top of the U.S. box office over the  weekend with better-than-expected ticket sales during a  worse-than-usual seasonal slump.
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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 blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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LOS ANGELES  - It's likely to be a photo finish at the box office this weekend when three wide releases targeting adults -- "Blood Diamond," "Apocalypto" and "The Holiday" -- are sent out into the marketplace.
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The real-life murders of hundreds of Mexican women in a grim industrial city on the U.S. border get a religious twist in a new Hollywood film, one of the movie's stars said on Wednesday.
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Movie studios, usually pegged as disciples of Mammon, are now trying to reach the faithful
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Supernatural thriller The Forgotten has gone straight to the top of the US box office chart, taking $22m (Â£12m). The film stars Julianne Moore as a mother who is told the son she lost in a plane crash never
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The announcement promises to be a significant break in the entertainment industryâs troubled labor situations.
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"Eastern Promises," a Russian mob thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize on Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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The new zombie thriller "30 Days of  Night" took a commanding early lead at the North American box  office on Saturday, while the serious dramas "Gone Baby Gone,"  "Rendition" and "Things We Lost in the Fire" were on track for  disastrous debuts.
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It's an odd choice for Egyptian popular entertainment: a bleak movie about corruption, torture and political stagnation in a country where cinematic happy endings are the norm. But audiences are packing the theaters.
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The dead have risen. In a  sale that once seemed as slow as a zombie, the Weinstein Co.  snapped up North American and Mexican rights to &quot;George A.  Romero&#39;s Diary of the Dead.&quot;
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LOS ANGELES - It's been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like "The Forgotten," which claimed the No. 1 box office spot over the weekend, scaring up $22 million...
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Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg's latest film, depending on which way you look at it, is either a horrifyingly cool exposition of the uncaring value system in a modern day mafia family or a devastating thriller with internalised ramifications for all us 'ordinary' people.