• Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 06/06/2008
  • Running Time: 120 mins
  • Director: Sergei Bodrov
  • Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Khulan Chuluun, Amadu Mamadakov, Odnyam Odsuren, Amarbold Tuvshinbayar
  • Producer: Sergei Bodrov, Bulat Galimgereyev, Philip Lee, Anton Melnik, Sergei Selyanov
  • Writer: Arif Aliyev, Sergei Bodrov
  • Distributor: Picturehouse
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Box Office

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  3. Nights in Rodanthe, 13.4 million, 13.4 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
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  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
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  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Igor, 5.4 million, 14.2 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. My Best Friend's Girl, 3.9 million, 14.6 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Righteous Kill, 3.7 million, 34.7 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Miracle at St. Anna, 3.5 million, 3.5 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, 3.1 million, 32.8 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Mongol

You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI tumult of 300, Alexander, and Troy look like sissy-boy slap parties. "Do not scorn the weak cub; he may become the brutal tiger," the opening title card reads, and Russian director Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains) shrewdly casts this reverent retelling of Genghis Khan: The Early Years not as the rise of an emperor, but as a classic underdog tale. Using mostly real extras, stuntwork, and staggering locations, Bodrov recounts the 13th-century conqueror's path from childhood enslavement to tender lover, doting dad, all-around square dealer, and—oh yeah—builder of the Mongol Empire. As storytelling, aside from its unobtrusive flashback structure, the movie's as straight as the arrows that fly in close-up—a CGI trick that, like most of the movie's limited digital effects, is more effective for being seldom used. It's powered by a quietly commanding lead performance by Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano, and by the forceful evocation of its physical details: horses traversing a field of boulders, the heft of its bulky costumes. Last year's Academy Award nominee from Kazakhstan for Best Foreign Film, Mongol is purportedly the first in a multi-film saga on the wrath of Khan; as such, it's probably the last thing you’d expect—great fun. — Jim Ridley

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