Once all the dust settled, the battling warriors of Warner Bros. Pictures' "300" claimed a major victory at the North American boxoffice, planting their flag on a record-setting $70.9 million. Playing 3,103 theaters, the visually arresting action movie from director Zack Snyder conquered a formidable per-theater average of $22,844.It laid waste to other recent openings for sword-and-sandal movies like "Troy" and "Gladiator." It set a new record for a March opening, outdistancing the $68 million that 20th Century Fox's "Ice Age: The Meltdown" took in last year. And it notched the third-biggest opening ever for an R-rated movie, behind only "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Passion of the Christ."More...
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