&#39;Hero&#39; rises to challenge in weekend box office
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LOS ANGELES The acclaimed Jet Li martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; took in an estimated 17-point-eight (m) million dollars to rank Number One in the weekend box office.
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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."
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Summer wound down with a yawn this weekend at the movie box office, where the Jet Li warrior epic &quot;Hero&quot; took the top spot over the scary-snake drama &quot;Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
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rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic, &quot;Ying xiong,&quot; or &quot;Hero.&quot; Miramax, Biskind says, hoped that &quot;Hero&quot; might become the next &quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&quot; It didn&#39;t, though. The company bungled the picture&#39;s release, reportedly ...
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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).
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The Chinese martial-arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li, has topped the US box office in its first weekend. The film, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2002, grossed $17.
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DreamWorks&#39; animated &quot;Shark Tale&quot; took another big bite at the boxoffice this weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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The hit superhero cartoon &quot;The Incredibles&quot; retained its lead at the weekend box office in North America, while the costly Tom Hanks holiday movie &quot;The Polar Express&quot; opened at a distant No.
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Superman may not be the world&#039;s greatest superhero at the box office, but the Man of Steel still flies high. &quot;Superman Returns&quot; took in &#36;52.15 million over opening weekend, lifting its five-day total since its debut Wednesday to &#36;84.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage&#39;s new adventure movie &quot;National Treasure&quot; unseated the animation hit &quot;The Incredibles&quot; over the weekend as the No.
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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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Studio estimates show Cage&#39;s &quot;National Treasure&quot; debuted as the top weekend movie with 35-point-three (m) million dollars.
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Miramax Films, heading into the  weekend, aims to keep the Chinese-language martial-arts epic  "Hero" atop box office charts where it landed last week in a  surprise showing built on a novel marketing strategy.
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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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Los Angeles -- Hero, director Zhang Yimou&#39;s acclaimed martial-arts epic starring Jet Li, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and superbabies to debut as the top weekend film, earning $17.
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It was another incredible weekend for âThe Incredibles.â The Disney/Pixar animated feature about a family of superheroes took in an estimated $51 million over the weekend placing it well ahead of the just released Tom Hanks animated feature âThe
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Warner Bros. Pictures' costly new entrant "The Polar Express" goes up against reigning champ "The Incredibles" at the weekend box office, but is unlikely to dislodge the hit superhero cartoon.