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The North American Box Office's Top 10 Final Figures

July 17, 2006 10:07:19

The estimated ticket sales at the North American box office for July 14-16 period shows the dominance of the "Pirates". The adventure, action, comedy flick, tentatively titled "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", taking in another $62.2 million in ticket sales, thus rules the movie chart for a second weekend.

On top of that attainment, the movie also has quickly become the year's top-grossing film, rocketing past "X-Men: The Last Stand," which has taken in $232 million in eight weeks, with the "Pirates" sequel raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million. Meanwhile, The Wayans brothers comedy "Little Man" claims the 2nd spot with about $21.7 million, just one place ahead of "You, Me and Dupree" at 3rd with $21.3 million.

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The Top 10 Weekend Movies

July 10, 2006 09:07:05

The Walt Disney Pictures sequel of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" lands on the top position in North America box office, taking in a record $132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates Sunday July 9th. Such amount obviously makes the flick scores the record for best three-day opening of all time. That attainment, moreover, leads the highly anticipated movie to beat the record made by the 2002's "Spider-Man," which took in $114.8 million in its first weekend.

Back then to the Top 10 weekend movies, there we have "Superman Returns" at 2nd position with $21.8 million, followed after by "The Devil Wears Prada" at 3rd with $15.6 million and "Click" at No. 4 taking in $12 million. In the meantime, Disney's "Cars" taking in another $10.3 million to be at No. 5, just one place ahead of "Nacho Libre" at No. 6 scoring $3.3 million.

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Top 10 Highest-Grossing Movies in Box Office Week-List

July 03, 2006 11:07:47

Great is presumably the right word to describe the return of Man of Steel on big screen. The latest installment of the hero, "Superman Returns", has satisfyingly worked its charm toward the audience to top this week's box-office list with $52.15 million it has gathered over opening weekend, altogether making $84.2 million of its five-day total since its Wednesday debut.

Another new wide release, "The Devil Wears Prada", also resulted well on the chart, taking up the second position after successfully garnering $27 million which was beyond industry analysts' expectation that have assumed the movie to debut less than $20 million. Last week's number 1, "Click", secured the third with $19.4 million followed by "Cars" and "Nacho Libre" on number 4 and 5, respectively.

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Sneak Preview on the Top 10 Box Office

June 26, 2006 01:06:13

Recent up-date for this week box office!

The top place is "Click"ed to Adam Sandler in his high-concept comedy. The movie smashes all bad reviews blocking on the way. Estimating the gross of $40 million only in the premiere week, the movie grabs the average of $10,669 in 3,749 theatres. The movie might be Sandler's fourth highest opening screenplay since "The Longest Yard", "Anger Management", and "Big Daddy".

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The Box Office's 10 Best Bows

June 19, 2006 10:06:10

The Walt Disney animation, comedy flick "Cars" remains still at the very top position in the North America box office, remaining the 1st for a second weekend with $31.2 million. Meanwhile, Paramount's "Nacho Libre" debuts in 2nd place with $27.5 million, ahead of "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," which opens at No. 3 with $24.1 million.

The chart's next best bow is the Warner Bros. romantic drama "The Lake House," which taking in $13.7 only to secure the 4th place, just one place ahead of "The Break-Up" at No. 5 with $9.5 million in ticket sales. The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties" taking in $21.7 million opens at No. 6.

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Nacho Libre's Release Date Is Moved to June 16

March 28, 2006 01:03:28

Previously slated its comedy flick "Nacho Libre" for a June 2nd release date, Paramount Pictures has at last moved it to June 16th, 2006. While the studio has made such decision, there has yet any reasons given on why it has to be so.

"Nacho Libre" tells the story of Ignacio, played by Jack Black, a cook by day in a Mexican orphanage, who moonlights as a Lucha Libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans. The Jared Hess' direction also stars the likes of Ana de la Reguera, Hector Jimenez, Richard Montoya, and Peter Stormare.

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It's a great movie that i've seen this year, and I think that Ana de la Reguera was the best

posted by jarocha on Aug 15, 2006

With these types of movies I'm not suprised the critics hated it. As time moves on the older crowd becomes more and more confounded with reasoning behind comedy that the younger audiences enjoy. They're probably wondering what it was that we found so entertaining about the movie. Bland humor with none other that can be classified as just plain "Silly" is crowd pleasing. Silly antics and simple humor, paired with fresh faced cast make the movie a success. Jack Black was the lead role, but being backed up by people in their first "major" film is what truly gives this film character. Memorable lines, and dreams of achieving our goals in life is what makes this movie hilarious, and memorable for many years to come.

posted by hsoulette on Jun 30, 2006

Come on! have sense of humor, why few stars?, Good movie to have a funny time, Lucha Libre!!! fans is great!!

posted by Shaolin on Jun 24, 2006

A simple comedy of pure genius . Jack Black earns the title 'the great' in this movie. His conflicted Ignacio, torn between his desire for glory as a wrestler, his desire for the delectable Sister Encarnacion, and his wish to earn money for the orphans at his monastery, leaves us howling with laughter in scene after scene. Even the soundtrack is gently funny. The best comedy to come along in a long, long time.

posted by katya on Jun 19, 2006