&#39;Forgotten&#39; leads box office amid weak theater turnout
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It&#39;s been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like &quot;The Forgotten,&quot; which claimed the No.
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LOS ANGELES Just as the trailers for &quot;The Forgotten&quot; show creepy images of people being sucked into the atmosphere, the movie sucked people into theaters over the weekend.
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The debut flight of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" landed the No. 1 weekend box office spot with an estimated &#36;16.2 million amid an overall lackluster turnout at theaters.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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Late August generally is a time when Hollywood's studios dump movies for which they have low box office expectations, and this week continues that old philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.
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&quot;Transformers,&quot; the big-budget  movie about alien robots battling on Earth, crushed the  competition in theaters over the weekend, racking up $67.6  million in three days to land at No. 1 on box office charts,  according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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Since the box office hit rock bottom last weekend, there's no place to go but up. And two films targeting very different audiences are looking to take advantage of the usual seasonal slump this weekend.
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It&#39;s that spooky time of year when movies with even the mildest of scares have a great chance of breaking out at the box office.
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na summer when many of the studios&#39; biggest bets failed to pay off, it was familiarity in the form of sequels and low-budget comedies that resonated with movie audiences.
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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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A box-office surprise, the movie jabs hard at Americans' biases.
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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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Mira Nair&#39;s 19th-century class-warfare film &quot;Vanity Fair&quot;, starring Reese Witherspoon, had lacklustre showings when it opened in the theatres last week.
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North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees:
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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-expected seasonal slump.
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The haunted-house thriller &quot;The Grudge,&quot; starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, held on to the No. 1 slot at the North American box office, scaring up $22.
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Proving that bad reviews don't necessarily bury you National   Treasure dug up an estimated &#36;35.2 million to top the nation's   weekend box-office.