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CNN
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A martial arts dream team -- Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The tale of a modern American teen hurtled bac..
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CNN
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Teri Hatcher is being told to pucker up and pay $2.4 million to a skin-care products company that says she promoted the wrong lip gloss. Hydroderm's lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, claims that a 2005 agreement with ISBE Production..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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Pop star Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $US120 million (A$134 million) deal with concert promotion firm Live Nation, a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.
The story was first report..
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News.com.au
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MEL Gibson has poured a further $10 million into his controversial sect in the Malibu hills as he oversees the construction of a 400-seat church to expand his flock of followers.
A federal tax filing reveals that the troubled actor-director made the la..
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Variety
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Sony’s “Superbad” scored on Friday, chalking up an estimated $12 million in 2,948 theaters.
Among previous R-rated comedy bows in August, “Superbad’s” haul is in sync with the $12.2 million generated by 2003’s “American Wedding” on it..
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FOX News
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People rushed to theaters to see the buddy cop comedy "Rush Hour 3," making the last of this summer's big budget Hollywood films the top movie at the weekend box office.
The film from New Line Cinema took in $50.2 million according to studio estimates...
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FOX News
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Woo Hoo!
"The Simpsons Movie" turned doughnuts into dollars over the weekend, raking in $71.9 million to debut as the top movie this week.
The big screen tale of the lovable, if dysfunctional, family rolled over the competition, sending last week's..
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CNN
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Harry Potter remains a box-office charmer. The Warner Bros. fantasy sequel "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" conjured up a $77.4 million debut to lead the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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CNN
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Audiences anted up for the Warner Bros. caper "Ocean's Thirteen," the third of George Clooney and Brad Pitt's casino-heist romps, which debuted as the top flick with $37.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbea..
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Reuters
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Johnny Depp sailed to glory at the North American box office on Sunday with his latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, but the family adventure failed to match the performance of its predecessor last year.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" s..
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CNN
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Johnny Depp and his pirate friends pulled in a lot of plunder, but fell far short of a record opening day.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" raked in $43 million domestically Friday, well behind the $59.3 million opening day for "Spider-Man 3"..
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FOX News
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The big green ogre keeps getting bigger.
"Shrek the Third" took in $122 million in its first weekend, breaking the franchise's own record for best debut ever for an animated film, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The latest adventure of the ogr..
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FOX News
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Stars-on-ice Will Ferrell and Jon Heder took the box office gold for the weekend.
Paramount and DreamWorks' "Blades of Glory," with Ferrell and Heder playing figure-skating rivals who become the sport's first men's pair, debuted as the No. 1 movie with..
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FOX News
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Eddie Griffin crashed a rare Ferrari Enzo worth $1.5 million into a concrete barrier while practicing at a racetrack, destroying the car but escaping uninjured.
The 38-year-old actor-comedian was practicing Monday for a charity race to promote his upco..
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FOX News
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The ninja turtles are back, and they're winning.
The Warner Bros. adventure "TMNT," a computer-animated update of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" comics, cartoons and 1990s live-action movies, debuted as the top weekend flick with $25.45 million in..
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Yahoo News
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The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday.
The grim warr..
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ABC News
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The battle of Thermopylae took place 2,500 years ago, but a new film aims to place it squarely back in the public's mind.
Adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller, "300" is the underdog story of how 300 men held off a million (men).
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ABC News
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Do Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Britney Spears have anything in common? Maybe, maybe not. When the website buybritneyshair.com claimed to put the star's locks up for auction for a million dollars, Spears joined a club that is very elite, very o..
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New York Post
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December 24, 2006 -- RECORDS are dead and the iPod is king, but old-fashioned, full-length albums are still going strong. Americans bought more than 456 million CDs this year, even as digital music services such as iTunes racked up 480 million single-trac..
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Bloomberg
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Nintendo Co., loser of the last video- game console war, said it will spend more than $200 million to market its new Wii in a bid to wrest sales away from Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360...
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