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Box Office Report: 'A Christmas Carol' is No. 1 with $31 mil

1 hour ago | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »

It may be only the first week of November, but Disney's A Christmas Carol got the holiday season started by spiriting $31 million at the box office, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office. The $175 million animated movie, which utilized performance-capture technology to allow Jim Carrey to play multiple roles from Charles Dickens' beloved story, represented the best opening in director Robert Zemeckis' career. And even though Carol performed a bit below expectations, the family film should hold up well in the coming weeks, especially since it'll be playing on nearly 200 pricey IMAX screens until Avatar opens on Dec. »

- John Young

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Weekend Box Office - Disney’S A Christmas Carol Takes $31 Million; Precious Boasts Biggest Limited Release Opening of All Time

2 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

You know it’s the end of the year when there are more new releases per week than any one person could reasonably care about. Or maybe I should just speak for myself.  The first full weekend of November featured four new wide releases all boasting some major star power: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” with Jim Carrey (times four), “The Box” with Cameron Diaz, “The Fourth Kind” with Milla Jovovich and “The Men Who Stare at Goats” with George Clooney.  And though no one film can be said to be a total washout this weekend, the A-listers fell short compared to the stunningly successful debut of Lee Daniels’ “Precious”. The indie sensation opened in just 18 theatres, taking in an estimated $100,000 per screen to make it the most-lucrative limited release of all-time.

Title Weekend Total 1 Disney’s A Christmas Carol $31,000,000 $31 2 This Is It $14,000,000 $57.8 3 The Men Who Stare at Goats $13,309,000 $13.3 4 The Fourth Kind »

- Nicole Pedersen

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Ho-Ho-Hum Weekend for Jim Carrey; Ho-Ho-Worse for Cameron Diaz

2 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »

Holiday movie season and high Oscar season have kicked off. But only one is kicking mistletoe. While Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol led a bah-humbug weekend with an underwhelming $31 million, per estimates, the Oprah Winfrey- and Tyler Perry-backed award-show contender Precious grossed a stunning $1.8 million at only 18 theaters. Elsewhere, Michael Jackson's This Is It did its thing (solid $14 million here, bigger $29 million overseas), George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats ($13.3 million) did better than expected for a movie with goats and George Clooney in it, and Cameron Diaz's The Box ($7.9 million) just didn't really open.  A look inside the numbers: •... »

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Movie Review: “The Box”

2 hours ago | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

Seen on: November 7, 2009

The players: Director: Richard Kelly, Writer: Richard Kelly, Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne

Facts of interest: Based on the story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson.

The plot: A couple in financial trouble receive a mysterious box and must make an important decision that will change everything.

Our thoughts: Richard Kelly’s latest big-screen experiment “The Box” is a creepy, chaotic, yet highly entertaining supernatural thriller that caught my attention right away and then refused to let go of me until the very end. Not for a second there did I try to resist, because I totally enjoyed the twisted world the film pulled me into. »

- Franck Tabouring

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 8, 2009

3 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

This week:

The box office sings A Christmas Carol; Faceman visits Dark Fields; Michael Fassbender fires A Single Shot; High Fidelity guys re-team with Lay The Favorite and Helen Mirren sees Red.

 

Box Office

Christmas came early for Disney with A Christmas Carol. The motion capture Jim Carey film managed to snag around $31 million over the weekend.

Michael Jackson’s This is It banked about $13.4 million over the weekend after dropping less than 42 % from last weekend.

George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare At Goats and Milla Jovovich’s The Fourth Kind were almost neck and neck over the weekend with a weekend take of just under $14 million for each film.

Paranormal Activity just keep knocking at the door marked profit with another $8.5 million.

Cameron Diaz’s The Box opened with a disappointing $7.8 million. This poor opening means that the Richard Kelly film will not be in the financial Darko for a while. »

- Niall Browne

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Ho-Ho-Hum Weekend for Jim Carrey; Ho-Ho-Worse for Cameron Diaz

4 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Holiday movie season and high Oscar season have kicked off. But only one is kicking butt. While Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol led a bah-humbug weekend with an underwhelming $31 million, per estimates, the Oprah Winfrey- and Tyler Perry-backed award-show contender Precious grossed a stunning $1.8 million at only 18 theaters. Elsewhere, Michael Jackson's This Is It did its thing (solid $14 million here, bigger $29 million overseas), George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats ($13.3 million) did better than expected for a movie with goats and George Clooney in it, and Cameron Diaz's The Box ($7.9 million) just didn't really open.  Stay tuned for the complete Top 10 standings. »

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The Box

18 hours ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

The Box

Directed by: Richard Kelly

Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella

Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Plot: A financially desperate couple (Diaz, Marsden) is randomly presented with a box – inside the box is a simple red button. However, there is a catch – if they press the button, they will be awarded one million dollars. At the same time, someone in the world that they don’t know will be killed.

Who’S It For? Like the title object’s existence, The Box is a film made for the curious: those curious to see how the Donnie Darko director does with a mainstream budget, or those curious to see how the film should be placed in a list of this year’s bad-funny movies. Fans of psychological thrillers might want to take a gander, but at their own risk.

Expectations: Imagine a trailer that has »

- Nick Allen

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"The Box" Movie Review

18 hours ago | Reel Empire | See recent Reel Empire news »

Since we were unable to attend a showing for "The Box" this weekend, our good friend Andre Braddox over at On The Flix was kind enough to fill in as a guest reviewer and give us his take on the flick. From what we can tell, he seems to have liked Richard Kelly's thriller quite a bit. He says it delivered major, unique weirdness and kept him intrigued the entire time. You can read Andre's entire review inside. We'll be posting our own review for the film shortly, so be sure to look for that in the coming days. "The Box" stars James Marsden and Cameron Diaz and was directed by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly.

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- Chad Langen

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‘The Box’ Movie Delivered Major,Unique Weirdness And It Was Kinda Good

19 hours ago | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »

"The Box" movie delivered major,unique,weirdness,and it was kinda good. Yes, the new Warner Bros. Pictures movie really outdid itself in the weirdness department. However,it was very unique and kept me intrigued,the entire time. It stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella . "The Box" focused around characters, Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) who get offered a mysterious box from a weird old guy named Arlington Steward. Oh,yeah,and half his face was burned off,to give him some extra weirdness. I could barely pay attention too what he was saying as I gazed at the outline of his teeth and jaw from his burnt off face. But,anyways, I digress. Okay,so he offers them the strange box,and tells them, if they push the button, someone somewhere in the world, that they don't know will die. However,they will »

- Andre@ontheflix

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Review: The Box

21 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

I can't imagine that adapting a short story that's already been adapted into an episode of "The Twilight Zone," and attempting to extend it into a feature length is an easy task. Especially when the original story has that built-in single-note ethical spin that seemed perfect for Serling and company to weave into their morality tales. There was a chance that Richard Kelly could have built a huge framework for The Box around a single ominous punchline. A chance. But to no avail. A mysterious stranger named Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) delivers a box to the doorstep of Norma and Arthur Lewis (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) and gives them the opportunity to push a button that will kill someone they don't know and earn them a tax-free million. The central premise of the film is a fairly fascinating moral question of how much another person's life is worth and what lengths you'd go to set your »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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November 6: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

7 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »

We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re gonna be busy staring at a big button, arguing with yourself about whether or not to push it. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see The Box this weekend?” you can reply, “No, I contemplated cinematic moral conundrums of a different order.” Instead Of: The Box, Richard Kelly’s mysterious thriller about a moral dilemma -- push a button, kill a stranger, and pocket a cool million -- that turns out to be far stranger than it appears at first... Watch: Kelly’s first film, the deeply disturbing Donnie Darko (2001), which bends time as well as moral expectations in order to craft a deliciously odd parable about sacrifice; it’s so good »

- MaryAnn Johanson

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'A Christmas Carol' leads the box office with $9 mil on Friday

7 November 2009 12:31 PM, PST | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »

Jim Carrey, or rather a performance-capture CGI version of the actor, delivered enough holiday spirit to snatch the top spot at the box office on Friday, according to early estimates. Disney's A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis' animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novella, grossed $9 million on its first day. By comparison, the last major family film, Where the Wild Things Are, ate up $12.1 million its opening day, but Carol should have much sturdier legs in the upcoming weeks. Carol's total is also slightly less than the opening gross of Zemeckis' prior performance-capture flick, Beowulf, which slew $10 million »

- John Young

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What I Think of this Weekend's Other Box Office Contenders -- "The Box" and "The Fourth Kind"

7 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Everyone's predicting that "Disney's A Christmas Carol" will take the box-office crown this weekend. And it just might, that's why Warner Bros. and Universal are counter-programming with "The Box" and "The Fourth Kind," respectively.

For my review of "Disney's A Christmas Carol, click here. Now, here's what I think of:

"The Box"

Based on a Richard Matheson short story which later became a "Twilight Zone" episode called "Button, Button," "The Box" tells the tale of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur (James Marsden), a suburban couple who receive a gift of a lifetime -- a simple wooden box that bestows upon its owner $1 million with just a press of a button.

One million dollars is a big deal specially since the film is set in 1976. So Norma and Arthur have the box, they'll get $1 million if they press the button, blah blah blah...but there's always a catch! Pressing the button »

- Manny

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The Box Review

6 November 2009 1:51 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Short Version: Do yourself a favor and find the original 30 minute Twilight Zone episode of The Box and watch that instead.

Screen Rant reviews The Box

Well this is going to be a short review because I don’t want to spend any more time on this movie than I have to. The Box is based on Button, Button – a very short story written by Richard Matheson that was used for an old episode of the classic TV series The Twilight Zone. It was written and directed by Richard Kelly, the man behind the cult classic Donnie Darko and the poorly received Southland Tales.

Btw, personally I think it’s obvious, but this review does tell you whether or not they push the button.

 

The film takes place in 1976, around the time we started sending probes to Mars. This is the (very thin) reason the film takes place back then »

- Vic Holtreman

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Box Office: Who Will Win the Weekend (11/6-11/8)

6 November 2009 1:51 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »

After taking a week off to let Michael Jackson's concert doc This Is It do its thing, we're back now with four brand spanking new movies ready to climb over one another for a chance to claim the weekend's top spot at the box office. Who will it be? Before we let you decide, here's who's joining the competition this week…     The Box What's the Scoop: James Marsden and Cameron Diaz star in this retro-style thriller about a couple who receive a mysterious box from an even more mysterious stranger along with a set of enticing-yet-deadly instructions. Why It Might Win the Weekend: Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly is behind this film (his most commercial to date), so expect his large fan base to populate theaters along with those curious enough to find out what...

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Cameron Diaz Gets Offered A Deceptive Box In New ‘The Box’ Movie Clip

6 November 2009 1:44 PM, PST | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »

Cameron Diaz gets offered a deceptive box in new 'The Box' movie clip. This new Warner Bros. Pictures thriller film hit theaters today. We've got an interesting clip from the movie, for you movie goers to checkout. The movie stars : Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella. This clip features character, Arlington Stewart offering Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) a what he calls,financial opportunity. He tells her if she pushes the button,two things will happen. »

- Eric

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What Movie Will You Check Out at the Theaters This Weekend?

6 November 2009 11:38 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

It's a big weekend at the box office, with many new films hitting the big screen. The highly anticipated drama Precious will compete alongside Cameron Diaz's thriller The Box, while Jim Carrey's version of A Christmas Carol brings some holiday fun. Finally, George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats offers a few laughs. So, tell us - which movie will you check out? What Movie Will You Check Out at the Theaters This Weekend? The Box - I'm in the mood for a little suspense! A Christmas Carol - I'm ready to get into the holiday spirit. The Men Who Stare at Goats - Clooney? I'm in. Precious - I want to know what all the Oscar buzz is about. »

- PopSugar

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Movies This Week: The Damned (Untitled) Carol Gentlemen

6 November 2009 11:30 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »

Thanks to everyone who came out forThe Men Who Stare at Goats last night; it was a great turnout. It was so full we had to turn people away, even with two theaters (and two other sponsors, but still, Slackerwood fans represented). Keep following us on Twitter for future screenings.

Austin offers plenty of movies to see this week before the Austin Asian American Film Festival starts next Thursday. Check out the list below, and our personal picks to help you decide.

The Box -- Richard Kelly, the mastermind behind Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, directed this cautionary tale of a couple being offered a million dollars ... but at the price of killing someone they don't know. The movie (pictured above) is based on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" and stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella.

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- Jenn Brown

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The Reject Report Sings a Christmas Carol, Stares At Goats

6 November 2009 9:51 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Welcome to another Reject Report! As you can tell it's November, Halloween is now over and Christmas is right around the corner. How do we know this? Because the Christmas movies have started with A Christmas Carol. We also have the horror flick The Box, the thriller The Fourth Kind, and the Oscar season movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. So let's get on with it. We start this week with The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Robert Patrick . It's freaky stuff about a journalist who ends up going to Iraq and meeting up with this former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battallion, a military unit that uses psychic and paramilitary powers in their missions. This flick rolled out to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and I expect it to do good business over a number of »

- John Cairns

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Opening Night - James Marsden, Cameron Diaz and the Playboy Roots of The Box

6 November 2009 7:20 AM, PST | amctv.com - AMC News: Opening Night | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Opening Night news »

At the premiere of The Box in New York Wednesday night, as you may have noticed if you follow AMC News on Twitter, we had some laughs. The movie is a thriller from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, and it centers around this question: Would you let a stranger die in exchange for a million dollars? That moral dilemma is at the center of this film, and it was a question many on the red carpet were talking about.

The Box is an adaptation of the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) that first appeared in Playboy magazine. Did stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden or the other cast members ever think they'd appear in a movie that had its roots in a nudie magazine? Watch my Opening Night Report to find out.

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