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Weekend box office: audiences get into the holiday spirit with "A Christmas Carol"
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"A Christmas Carol"'s grumpy Scrooge thinks Christmas is humbug.
This weekend, “A Christmas Carol” was the big winner at the box office. Though it underperformed (perhaps a result releasing a holiday movie too early in the season), it grossed $31 million. In the animated retelling of the classic tale, Jim Carrey portrays grouchy, anti-Christmas Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taken on a journey of redemption by the three spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
Last week’s number one, “Michael Jackson’s This Is It”, dropped to number two this weekend with $14 million. The concert documentary features footage, including performances and interviews, taken during rehearsals of Jackson’s comeback London concert tour, cut short due to his untimely death.
The quirky comedy “The Men Who Stare at Goats” finished third with $13.3 million. The film, supposedly based on a true story, stares Ewan McGregor as down-on-his-luck reporter Bob Wilton, who travels to Iraq for an adventure that will win back his straying wife. He instead ends up going on a mission with George Clooney’s Lyn Cassady, a former psychic warrior who worked for the military’s First Earth Battalion, which attempted to fight war through peaceful means.
The alien abduction thriller “The Fourth Kind” came in, well, fourth with $12.5 million. The film, based on true events, follows a psychologist to a small Alaskan town, where people have disappeared without a trace over several decades. A freaky film of another kind, “Paranormal Activity” followed in fifth with $8.6 million.
Rounding out the top ten was the weekend’s other new release, the thriller “The Box”, with $7.8 million, “Couples Retreat” with $6.4 million, “Law Abiding Citizen” with $6.1 million, “Where the Wild Things Are” with $4.2 million, and “Astro Boy” with $2.5 million.
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