James Cameron’s 'Avatar' is on a course to sink 'Titanic' at the box office.

'Bruno' had a fabulous first weekend at cinemas across America, taking the number one spot at the US box office.

BATMAN has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box office superheroes.

The new Batman film 'The Dark Knight' lit up cash registers during its midnight US debut, earning a record $18.5m (€11.7m) from 3,040 cinemas, distributor Warner Bros said.

Heath Ledger’s death has boosted sales and interest in the late actor’s films.

FOR the last man on Earth, Will Smith has a lot of friends.

Owen Wilson, in hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, has dropped out of the upcoming ensemble comedy Tropic Thunder, film industry trade papers reported today.

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix took in more than £22m (€32m) in its first day, the best single-day gross ever for a movie on a Wednesday.

THE shape-shifting robots of Transformers have taken on a new form: huge piles of cash.

MOVE over Darth Vader. Captain Jack Sparrow is king for a day.

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible III took an estimated $48m (€37.8m) in the US on its opening weekend, but the figure was lower than anticipated.

Terry Gilliam’s Hollywood comeback was held off the top spot at the US box office by a 40-Year-Old Virgin this weekend, forcing The Brothers Grimm into second place.

Jessica Simpson and her Dukes of Hazzard co-stars stomped to the top of the US box office chart this weekend.

JK Rowling’s new Harry Potter book sold an astonishing 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours – averaging better than 250,000 sales per hour and smashing the US record held by the previous Potter release.

OFF-SCREEN couple or not, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had enough on-screen chemistry to lift their assassin tale Mr and Mrs Smith to a robust $51 million (€42m) opening in the US last weekend.

Will Smith wooed Valentine’s Day audiences this weekend with his first romantic comedy Hitch shattering US box office records.

FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Michael Moore’s assault on US President George W Bush, is on track for an opening weekend that would surpass the $21.6 million (€17.7m) total gross of Mr Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, the 2002 film that earned him an Academy Award for best documentary.

RECORD-BREAKING Shrek 2 cast a bigger box-office spell than first imagined, convincing distributor DreamWorks SKG that even grumpy green ogres can live happily ever after — at least for two more sequels.

Disney has banned its film company subsidiary from distributing controversial director Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticises President George Bush’s handling of the September 11 terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden’s.

With Starsky and Hutch opening in America, and the success of the Charlie’s Angels films, it’s clear that remakes of TV shows are now enormously profitable.

THE final instalment of the Matrix sci-fi trilogy has set a new record in its first weekend, making it the biggest global opening film of all time.

Spider-Man has become the fastest film to take $200m (€218m) in the US - beating Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

Harry Potter is laughing all the way to the bank - after the boy wizard conjured up record takings over the Thanksgiving weekend.