November 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Should you rush out to the theaters this weekend or wait for the DVD? The critics weigh in on this week’s new releases at the box office.
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November 05, 2009
By Scott Mantz
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? Well, not to sound like a Scrooge or anything, but does the world really need another version of “A Christmas Carol?”
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November 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens’ imagination.
Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis’ new take on “A Christmas Carol” brings to life the fantasy about miser Ebenezer Scrooge’s holiday redemption in a way old Hollywood never could have dreamed.
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November 02, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
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 movie-goers from their cash?
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August 31, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Hollywood might be telling its own life story this fall, presenting a lineup of liars, phonies, smooth talkers, bloodsuckers and greedy old men.
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May 25, 2009
CANNES, France
It was a bad year for business, a so-so year for celebrities, but a good year for movies at the Cannes Film Festival.
There were fewer dealmakers in the market, fewer stars on the red carpet — but on screen, the selection was one of the strongest in recent years.
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May 18, 2009
CANNES, France
Jim Carrey has multiple personalities in his next movie.
Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis brought a bit of holiday cheer to the Cannes Film Festival on Monday with a sneak peak of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” a new slant on the Charles Dickens classic in which the actor plays skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge and several other characters.
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May 14, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C.
Evan Rachel Wood has a starring role in the soon-to-be-released Woody Allen film and guest-stars in “True Blood.” She’s got a racy photo spread in the latest issue of GQ, and she hopes to play Mary Jane in the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.”
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April 30, 2009
By Scott Mantz
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Let’s just cut to the chase: “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” is a lame, laugh-free and utterly charmless affair in which Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner are severely lacking in the on-screen chemistry department.
The prospect of giving the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” a contemporary spin as a romantic comedy may have looked good on paper (or did it?), but on the big screen, it amounts to the cinematic equivalent of a lump of coal.
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