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variety.com - 1/21/2008

'Cloverfield' devours box office - Entertainment News, Film News, Media

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'27 Dresses' finds fit with audiences Beauty and the beast made the weekend box office look more like summer than the heart of winter as Paramount's "Cloverfield" enjoyed a monstrous debut of $41 million -- the best January opening ever -- and 20th Century Fox's romantic comedy "27 Dresses" fit like a glove in bowing at $22.4 million. Brad Grey's Paramount needed a hit of its own, and ...

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