Clooney blitzes box office

AAP
Mar 19, 2014, updated Mar 24, 2014

The Monuments Men has taken first place from 300: Rise of an Empire at the local box office over the weekend.

The drama about a platoon in World War II tasked with retrieving priceless stolen art seized the No.1 position over the weekend with two point three million dollars.

Need for Speed debuted in third, while Liam Neeson’s action/thriller Non-Stop dropped two places into fourth spot.

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