&#39;Fockers&#39; Fuels Christmas Box Office
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Just in time for the annual rite of difficult family moments, the comedy sequel &quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; topped the Christmas weekend box office in North America with a record
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&#39;MAN IS WHAT he believes,&quot; wrote Russian playwright Anton Chekhov at the end of the 19th century. And every Christmas movie has been beating that idea into the ground ever since.
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LOS ANGELES  - Those darn aliens and predators upset the box office hierarchy established during the weekend before Christmas.
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Meet The Fockers continues its amazing run.
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Here are some of the toys expected to be top sellers this Christmas. The list is based on Toy Wishes&#39; editorial board&#39;s review of thousands of toys and interviews with parents, children and retailers.
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Ticket sales at the US box office reached a record high in 2004, despite a fall in the number of moviegoers.
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&quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; debuted with a sweet $30.1 million to take first place at the box office on the weekend before Christmas.
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Warner Bros. Pictures&#39;  &quot;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&quot; worked its magic at  the box office Wednesday.
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Millions of Americans went shopping for comedy this weekend, giving the star-studded "Meet the Fockers" the record for the best single Christmas Day box office take. The sequel, reuniting Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro and adding Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Stiller's parents, earned &#36;44.7 million over the holiday weekend according to studio estimates.
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Universal Pictures&#39; ``Meet the Fockers,&#39;&#39; a sequel to the 2000 comedy ``Meet the Parents,&#39;&#39; opened at No. 1 movie in US and Canadian theaters with $44.7 million in ticket sales, the biggest Christmas weekend opener ever.
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After having been released for only 12 days, "Meet the Fockers" has made its place on the list of the highest-grossing films of 2004. It has beat the top New Year's Eve box office gross (previously held by "Castaway") and the top New Year's Day box off...
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North American box office champ  "Meet the Fockers" helped push overall movie sales to a new  record in 2004, and the sequel film earned almost as much after  two weekends as the original, "Meet the Parents," drew in its  entire run, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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The drawing power of &quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; was no joke at theaters this weekend, where the comedic sequel was tops in box office receipts.
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LOS ANGELES  - The family audience is  in high demand on the final weekend before Thanksgiving as two  new films and two holdovers clamor for its attention.
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Top 5 Movies of the Week(As on December 23rd, 2004)
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com. When you hear the clichÃ© &quot;It&#39;s the most fun you&#39;ll have at the movies all year!&quot; that&#39;s usually a good sign to avoid that particular film like Cool Springs at Christmastime.
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If you are the sort of magnanimous or insane person who worries about the steadily declining state of Ben Affleck&#39;s career, Surviving Christmas is not going to set your mind at ease.