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Overall summer business finished 12 percent stronger than last year's, with $2.5 billion and nine films making more than $100 million: "Armageddon," "Saving Private Ryan," "Deep Impact," "Dr. Dolittle," "Godzilla," "There's Something About Mary," "Lethal Weapon 4," "The Truman Show" and "Mulan." The fall season kicks off next weekend with "Rounders," starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, and "Simon Birch," a critically maligned adaptation of the John Irving novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany...
...Rubik's Cube is passe. In Hollywood, however, the colorful puzzle is just the bomb, having landed a supporting role in three films this year. In The Wedding Singer, left, Christine Taylor gets frustrated by the box and chucks it. But in There's Something About Mary and Armageddon, Mary's slow-witted brother and the unpolished Rockhound show their brain power by swiftly twisting the maddening thing into shape...
...course, those action-adventure staples contributed their share to the box office bonanza. "Armageddon" is the summer's biggest moneymaker at $180 million (although "Private Ryan," the No. 1 film for the past four weeks, has the asteroid flick in its crosshairs). Look at the rest of the top grossing movies of the season so far, though, and you'll see that the summer box office heroes came in all shapes and sizes...
...Armageddon," $180 million "Deep Impact," $139 million "Dr. Dolittle," $135 million "Godzilla," $133 million "Saving Private Ryan," $126 million "The Truman Show," $123 million "Lethal Weapon 4," $121 million "Mulan," $115 million "There's Something About Mary," $92 million "The X-Files," $82 million "The Mask of Zorro," $79 million "The Horse Whisperer,"$74 million
...format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of Deep Impact and Armageddon now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...