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‘Town’ is talk of box office, opening with $23.8M

LOS ANGELES -- "The Town" is the talk of the box office, opening with $23.8 million to take the No. 1 spot. The intense Warner Bros. drama about bank robbers in an insular section of Boston earned rave reviews. This is the second movie directed by Ben Affleck, who stars alongside Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm and Chris Cooper. It was a crowded field this weekend as the fall film season began in earnest.

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