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'Max Payne' Takes Aim At 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' For Box-Office #1
#1 "Max Payne" ($18 million)
#2 "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" ($11.2 million)
#3 "The Secret Life of Bees" ($11.1 million)
#4 "W." ($10.6 million)
#5 "Eagle Eye" ($7.3 million)
With only a couple of weeks left before the presidential election, director Oliver Stone was betting that audiences would want to look back on the nation's controversial leader of the past eight years. As it turned out, viewers were instead eager to relive a whole different kind of pain. Mark Wahlberg's "Max Payne" led the weekend box office with $18 million, putting it in first place. The moody, noir-esque adaptation of the best-selling video game series cast the former Funky Bunch leader as a disgruntled cop out to avenge the murder of his family. Mila Kunis, Chris O'Donnell and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges all played against type in the flick that was directed by hit...
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Thriller "Max Payne" Opens Atop At N. American Box Office
Cast members Chris ＂Ludacris＂ Bridges, Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis pose with director John Moore at the premiere of the movie ＂Max Payne＂ at Grauman＇s Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California October 13, 2008.
Starring action star Mark Wahlberg, "Max Payne" easily outdistanced competitions in theaters from a popular dog, bees and the current U.S. president, according to Los Angeles-based box office tracking firm Media By Numbers Sunday.
The 20th Century Fox release, based on a popular video game with the same name, chronicles a NYPD detective's revenge against a pharmaceutical company involved in a secret military project after his wife is murdered.
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Max Payne The Video Game At The Top Of The Movie Box Office
About Max Payne: The movie starts with Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) struggling to surface in a frosted river while also narrating. The film then cuts to one week earlier, showing Max working as a clerk in the cold-case unit and his obsession with finding the fleeing killer who brutally murdered his wife, Michelle, and newborn daughter. Max then attends a party run by his snitch, Trevor Duncan, where he meets...
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Ludacris' "Max Payne" Tops Alicia Keys, Latifah, & Jennifer Hudsons' A Secret Life Of Bees
According to Variety, the 20th Century Fox film, which also starred Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, secured the top position during a weekend of debuts and became the third best opening of the fall, following earlier releases Chihuahua and Eagle Eye. Company executives were pleased with the numbers.
"We're thrilled," Fox senior VP of domestic distribution Bert Livingston told Variety. "Fox had a great weekend. We had something for everyone."
Opening up at 3,376 theaters, the film portrays Wahlberg as the lead character violently searching to find the killer of his family.
Another big weekend debut was the highly-anticipated movie The Secret Life of Bees, which opened up at No. 3 with over $11 million in ticket sales....
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