'Ocean's 12' takes top haul at N America
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Crime caper 'Ocean's 12' took the top ticket haul at the North American box office, grossing $40.8 million to claim the weekend's top movie title, according to prelimary figures on Sunday.
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Variety - The wannabe shark slayer caused a feeding frenzy at U.K. cinemas and propelled takings by more modest levels in France and Germany last week. Hitman Tom Cruise in "Collateral" scored solidly in Italy and Spain but not enough to arrest a B.O. slide in both territories.
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Legions of moviegoers have been waiting for &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve,&quot; the follow-up to 2001&#39;s &quot;Ocean&#39;s Eleven.&quot;.
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Walter Salles' "The Motorcycle Diaries," Alejandro Amenabar's "The Sea Inside" and Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" received top honors at the Hollywood Film Festival's 8th annual Hollywood Awards ceremony Monday night at the Beverly Hilton.
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Two new films, National Treasure and SpongeBob SquarePants, and the expansion of Bridget Jones took on The Incredibles and The Polar Express this weekend in a race to the top.
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"Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the foreign box office champ for  the past eight weekends, has helped Walt Disney Co. pass the $1  billion mark overseas for a 12th consecutive year.
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Following are the top 10  films at the North American box office for the weekend  beginning September 7, led by the new release "3:10 to Yuma,"  according to estimates compiled on Sunday by Reuters.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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The all-star caper film "Ocean's Thirteen" 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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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 first question everyone asks about &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twleve&quot; is, &quot;Is it as good as &#39;Ocean&#39;s Eleven&#39;?&quot; Well, no, not really, but &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve&quot; still stands on its own and has enough wit, fun capers, intact storyline and gorgeous people that two hours will go
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&#39;OCEAN&#39;S Twelve&quot; is like gum after the flavor wears off; you keep chewing, out of habit and out of hope -- for a final flavor burst that might be waiting patiently for its moment.
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"Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" led the foreign box office for the  11th time in 12 weekends Sunday with estimated sales of $7.6  million from 36 territories.
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âPirates of the Caribbean: At Worldâs Endâ set new industry benchmarks with its aggressive global release on Memorial Day weekend.
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Rolling the dice for a third  time in &quot;Ocean&#39;s Thirteen,&quot; Steven Soderbergh and his team beat  the odds. Final chapters of trilogies invariably suffer from  lameness. This, of course, already transpired in &quot;Ocean&#39;s  Twelve,&quot; where subplots misfired and the script resorted to all  sorts of sleight-of-hand trickery.
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Nicholas Cage's adventure flick 'National Treasure' kept discovering gold at the North American box office this weekend, beating out a slate of animated and holiday releases for the third week in a  row, early figures showed on Sunday.
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Nicolas Cage&#39;s National Treasure manages for fight off an underwater sea sponge to take the top spot at the national box office this weekend.