&quot;Superbad&quot; leads box office past $4 billion
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Comedy &quot;Superbad&quot; proved to be  super good at North American box offices, holding onto the No.  1 slot for the second straight weekend and pushing summer  ticket sales above $4 billion for the first time ever,  according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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By the standard box office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box office derby with domestic ticket sales of &#36;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 &#36;119 million.
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Grossness and sweetness  seem to be the oddly winning combo animating many successful  recent comedies, such as &quot;The 40-Year-Old Virgin,&quot; &quot;Knocked Up&quot;  and current box office hit &quot;Superbad.&quot;
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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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Hollywood's superhero foursome is still fantastic at the box office. The 20th Century Fox sequel "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" debuted as the No. 1 weekend flick with $57.4 million in sales, slightly surpassing the $56.1 million opening of "Fantastic Four" two years ago, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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&quot;The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie&quot; soaked up much of the US box office cash over the weekend, but &quot;National Treasure&quot; earned the most gold, according to final studio figures released Monday.
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&quot;Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver  Surfer&quot; caught the nationwide wave of moviegoers to the No. 1  spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates.
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Pfizer Inc , the world's  biggest drugmaker, on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter results  that beat expectations.
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The Super Bowl may be four months away but ad sales are already hotter than Janet Jackson at last year&#39;s halftime show. Fox, which will broadcast the big game on Feb. 6, has sold out two
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>Veer-Zaara continues its victorious march in the Overseas territory. After setting new records in U.S.A. and U.K., the love story of epic proportions has taken the Australian box-office by storm.
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NEW YORK -- Blockbuster appears to have kicked off a bidding war for Hollywood Entertainment on Thursday after the No. 1 video retailer said it&#39;s prepared to offer about $742 million for its closest, albeit still distant, rival.
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Comedy "Superbad" proved to be super good at North American box offices, holding onto the No. 1 slot for the second straight weekend and pushing summer ticket sales above $4 billion for the first time ever, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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2004 was the second-biggest box office year ever, according to estimates from box office trackers Nielsen EDI. The year's box office revenue was estimated to be &#36;9.23 billion, up 0.7% over 2003's &#36;9.17 billion. But 2004 is second to 2002's all-time record of &#36;9.27 billion. Final numbers come out today.
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Hollywood notched its first $4 billion summer as teen geeks helped Hollywood end the season in record fashion.  Sony's "Superbad," the comedy about three dorky high-schoolers trying to score booze for a party, was the No. 1 movie for a second st...
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DreamWorks Animation, creator of box-office smashes including Shrek and Shark Tale, has raised $812m (Â£444) from its floatation in New York.
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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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North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees: