Christmas Carol Tops Box Office
Disney’s A Christmas Carol, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, opened at the top of the box office this weekend earning an estimated $31 million. That’s a bit of a disappointment considering the movie cost a reported $200 million to produce. Then again, it’s early in the holiday season, so the movie may stick around for a while. Seemed a little early to me to be releasing a Christmas movie anyways. I’m still making my way through leftover Halloween candy. I don’t want to be thinking about Christmas for at least a couple of more weeks.
Dropping to 2nd place was Michael Jackson’s This Is It which earned $14 million in its 2nd weekend of release. The movie has earned $57.8 million to-date — with another $70 million at the international box office.
Opening in 3rd was The Men Who Stare at Goats. The movie, which stars George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, opened with $13.3 million.
Rounding out the top 5 movies were The Fourth Kind which opened with $12.5 million and Paranormal Activity which added another $8.6 million, bringing it’s 7-week total to $97.4 million.
In other new releases, The Box opened in 6th place with $7.8 million while Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire opened in 13th place with $1.8 million — at only 18 theaters. That’s an amazing $100,000 per location. (To put that in perspective, A Christmas Carol earned $8,400 per location.)
Next weekend’s new releases include 2012 starring John Cusack and directed by Roland Emmerich and Pirate Radio written and directed by Richard Curtis. Fantastic Mr. Fox also opens in limited release.
For more information, check out our Box Office Results.
Disney’s A Christmas Carol Review
It’s hard to believe that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol 166 years ago, but here we are in 2009 and Robert Zemeckis has spent $180 million to produce a motion-capture animated film that retells the famous story. The movie opens this weekend on more than 2,000 digital 3D screens and features the voices of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn. Despite first being published on December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol remains one of the most popular, heart-warming holiday tales ever written. I’m sure you don’t need a recap of Scrooge’s encounters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Read more
A Christmas Carol Trailer #2
A second trailer for the Robert Zemeckis-directed animated feature, A Christmas Carol, is online. The 3-D motion picture will be based on the classic Charles Dickens tale, which was first published on December 19th, 1843, if you can believe that. Talk about a timeless and classic piece of literature. It has to rank right up there with some of the all-time greats. It certainly is one of my favourite Christmas stories ever. I really can’t wait for this one to come out. This trailer makes it look like an outstanding version of the story.
Amongst the voices we will hear in the movie are Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Michael J. Fox, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes.
A Christmas Carol will be in theatres on November 6th.
A Christmas Carol Trailer
The trailer for the Robert Zemeckis-directed animated feature, A Christmas Carol, is now online. The 3-D motion picture will be based on the classic Charles Dickens tale. Amongst the voices we will hear in the movie are Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes.
A Christmas Carol will be in theatres on November 6th – Disney should have released it closer to Christmas when everyone is in the spirit. Mind you, department stores start putting up their Christmas decorations in October!
Check out the trailer below.
German Christmas Carol Poster
A new German poster for the upcoming Robert Zemeckis version of A Christmas Carol has found it’s way online via DVD-Forum.at — and it doesn’t look too bad. Check it out below:
A Christmas Carol opens November 6th.
A Christmas Carol Movie Poster
Yahoo! Movies has the poster for Disney’s A Christmas Carol. The movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is based on the Dickens classic and stars Jim Carrey in the roles of Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. And, of course, we’ve got the cheesy “Season’s Greedings” tagline. Get it? Scrooge. Greedings. How do they come up with this stuff. Check out the poster in full by clicking the image below.
A Christmas Carol opens November 6th.
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