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

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.

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

"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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.