'Max Payne' leads weekend's box office sales

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Oct. 20, 2008

Mark Wahlberg's action film "Max Payne" premiered with $18 million to outdo "W.," Oliver Stone's film biography of George W. Bush, according to studio estimates Sunday. Stone's "W." actually ran fourth, opening with $10.6 million to finish behind "Beverly...

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