'Ocean's Twelve' Rules Waves at Foreign Box Office
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LOS ANGELES  - "Ocean's Twelve" ended  the three-week reign of "The Incredibles" at the foreign box  office over the weekend, pulling in an estimated $29 million  from 27 countries.
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LOS ANGELES  - "The Golden Compass" sped towards the $100 million mark at the overseas box office, even as the costly family fantasy lost steam in North America.
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Don't look now but we may have a budding Ocean's Twelve   curse wreaking havoc on Hollywood's A-list.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" hauled in $142.1 million to commandeer the record for best Memorial Day weekend debut, capping a huge month that puts Hollywood on track for record summer business.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the foreign box office champ for
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"Ocean's Twelve," the heist caper that George Clooney, Brad Pitt and their A-list pals shot in their spare time while living it up in Europe, stole the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office.
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After a month of  high-octane, A-list tent poles, the North American box office  gets a breather of sorts this weekend as not one sequel enters  the marketplace. It will be a brief respite, however, as  &quot;Ocean&#39;s Thirteen&quot; hits theaters June 8.
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Paris - George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts may all be A-list celebrities used to top billing, but when it came to playing in Ocean&#39;s Twelve they brought fun, not egos, to the set, according to the movie&#39;s director Steven Soderbergh.
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The miracle of &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve&quot; isn&#39;t just that it&#39;s a sequel every bit as good as the 2001 production. It&#39;s that producer Jerry Weintraub was able to get some of the biggest stars in the industry
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ruled the seven seas with a record $139.8 million domestically over the long Memorial Day weekend, lifting its worldwide total to $404 million.
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Ocean&#39;s Twelve brings together an ensemble cast of uncommon magnitude for the second time. This may be the sequel&#39;s greatest achievement.
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The all-star caper film &quot;Ocean&#39;s  Thirteen&quot; made off with $37.1 million in North American ticket  sales during its opening weekend to steal the No. 1 spot at the  weekend box office, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - The competition got a little stiffer at the weekend box office as three wide releases entered the fray, led by new champ "Ocean's Thirteen."
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As a number of Oscar nominees sought to cash in on their early laurels, the future-in-laws farce "Meet the Fockers" topped the overseas market with a weekend take of &#36;18.3 million, thanks largely to a gigantic &#36;15.1 million bow in Britain.
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CANNES  - Rolling the dice for a third time in "Ocean's Thirteen," Steven Soderbergh and his team beat the odds. Final chapters of trilogies invariably suffer from lameness. This, of course, already transpired in "Ocean's Twelve," where subplots misfired and the script resorted to all sorts of sleight-of-hand trickery.
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Big stars. Even bigger premiere for "Ocean's Twelve."
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&quot;Shrek the Third&quot; led  the foreign box office with a weekend haul of $48.6 million  from 45 markets, according to studio estimates issued Sunday.