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| MOSCOW -- Jerry Bruckheimer's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" was feted as Russia's top grossing movie of 2007 at Monday's 11th Blockbuster awards ceremony. The Buena Vista/Sony Pictures Russia release grossed $30.85 million in Russia and former Soviet territories during another record-breaking year when regional box office topped $565 million. More than 300 of Russia's producers and distributors lauded another boom year at the only local awards based purely on the commercial business a film does. "Pirates" didn't beat last year's top hitter, Russian sci-fi thriller "Day Watch" (Dnevnoi Dozor), which took more than $34 million. But that failed to dampen the mood of industry executives in a market where the annual B.O is expected to be near $1 billion by 2010. |