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3 hrs ago | The Dispatch

Latest adaptation of classic misses the mark

Pretty much everyone knows the timeless tale of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." It's a time-honored classic, endlessly retold and endlessly parodied.

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8 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

'This Is It' tops overseas boxoffice

Despite a 58% drop in weekend boxoffice on the foreign circuit, Sony's release of "This Is It" with Michael Jackson maintained its hold on the No.

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16 hrs ago | Southport Visitor

This week's cinema highlights - 06.11.09

THE festive spirit takes over cinemas this week with the release of a Christmas Carol, an animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

UR Chicago

11.09.09 | MOVIE || "A Christmas Carol"

"A Christmas Carol" Animation/Family Directed by: Robert Zemeckis Release date: November 6th, 2009 Reviewed by: John Esther Grade: Angry by recent Wall Street events of grand greed and government complicity, one of Hollywood's most reactionary artists, Robert Zemeckis , has turned his newfound socialism and channeled it into a cold critique of ...

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DNJ.com

'2012' offers look at the end of the world

Each week BoroParty.com provides readers with capsule reviews of movies in area theaters this weekend.

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Bloomberg Business News

Disney's `A Christmas Carol' Is No. 1 U.S. Movie With $31 Million in Sales

Walt Disney Co.a s a oeA Christmas Carola opened as the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend with ticket sales of $31 million.

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Macleans

Everyone wants a piece of Scrooge

He did it for the money. An indebted Charles Dickens dashed off A Christmas Carol in six weeks and saw it published, with opportune timing, six days before Christmas, in 1843.

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ScrippsNews

Family Film: New movies, including 'A Christmas Carol'

SUNDAY: Family Film: New movies, including 'A Christmas Carol' Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:17 A guide to movies from a family perspective: "A Christmas Carol" -- Rated: PG.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

'Carol' corrals $8.9 million

Disney kick-started the holidays on Friday with the release of "Disney's A Christmas Carol," which led the boxoffice listings for the day as it took in an estimated $8.97 million in 3,683 locations in North America.

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Wired News

Creepy, Cool Ghosts of Christmas Carols Past

Few literary classics have gone as viral as Charles Dickens' immortal novella A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas .

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Daily Express

Taming of the scrooge

EBENEZER SCROOGE: that bitter miser with contempt for Yuletide goodwill. A character so ingrained in our culture that we barely do Christmas without him.

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The Portland Phoenix

Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens made a mint with readings of A Christmas Carol , but a century and a half of technological progress has not been kind to the property.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Lexington Herald-Leader

Story: Happy holiday film season: Hollywood's ready to roll 'em

Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money- grubber at the head of the line to separate moviegoers from their cash? The latest version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , opening Friday, features Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

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Variety

Disney's a Carola rings in at box office

Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale "A Christmas Carol" takes on added dimension this weekend as the widest 3D release of the digital age.

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The New York Observer Politicker

Opening This Weekend: Jim Carrey Gets Mean, George Clooney Gets Silly and Precious Gets Controversial

It looks like all it took for some movies that you actually might consider seeing to get released into theaters was a flip of the calendar.

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Ann Arbor News

New Movies Podcast: Jim Carrey in Robert Zemeckis' 'A Christmas...

Humbug: Jim Carrey voices Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol." Wondrous or creepy? The moviegoing populace is divided on director Robert Zemeckis' groundbreaking motion-capture-animation technology, which he uses to rejuvenate the well-worn Charles Dickens tale "A Christmas Carol." Grand Rapids Press film critic falls on one side of the debate, and ...

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Iom Online

Plays announced for Peel Castle and Centenary Centre

FORGET the West End a ' the west of the Island is going to be the place to see some fantastic plays over the next couple of years.

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New York Press

A Christmas Carol

Add Robert Zemeckis to the list of filmmakers exposed by Michael Jackson's This is It .

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Georgia Straight

A Christmas Carol

Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, and Bob Hoskins. Rated G. Opens Friday, November 6, at the Park Theatre Ita TMs hard to imagine what Charles Dickens might have made of Robert Zemeckisa TMs new rendition of his most famous work.

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Beacon News

'A Christmas Carol' oddly inanimate

Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his name, starring in Disney's new 3-D animation version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." FEEL THE LOVE: In this scene from 'A Christmas Carol,' Ebenezer Scrooge sees Belle and Fred share a special moment.

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