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...Sunday morning in Hollywood, and the experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney's A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: "$31M Lump of Coal for 'Christmas Carol'." And from Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood: "Happy Holidays? Not for Stars: Carrey, Clooney, & Cameron Open Soft This Weekend." Meanwhile, Variety trumpeted that "'Precious' finds special place at box office...
...afforded by recent innovations in 3-D technology, none look quite so spectacular as “A Christmas Carol.” From the snowflakes which seem to hover just inches from the viewer’s face to the eerily protruding nose of the unscrupulous Scrooge (Jim Carrey), Zemeckis’ effects add depth to the film without seeming gimmicky. Certain scenes in particular employ 3-D to unique and immersive effect—most notably Scrooge’s many modes of transportation. One of these involves a mobile room with an invisible floor; as the room...
...motion capture also allows the cast members to dynamically play multiple roles. Carrey is perhaps the most effective in this way, playing not only Ebenezer Scrooge, but also the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. For Carrey to act as all three ghosts is a fitting and clever touch; rather than overwhelm the audience, this choice simply underscores the many ways in which the ghosts represent different facets of Scrooge’s personality. The multiplicity of roles also allows Carrey to stretch his comedic muscles. As the Ghost of Christmas Past—faithfully depicted as a sort...
After high school, Apatow moved to Los Angeles to go to USC but dropped out after two years to focus on his stand-up act. He was tight with Sandler, Carrey and David Spade but came to feel that he couldn't compete with them onstage. So he started writing jokes for Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr and, after approaching Ben Stiller in line at an Elvis Costello concert, took the helm of the Fox sketch comedy The Ben Stiller Show at the age of 24. There Apatow surprised everyone with his confidence and willingness to fight with network executives...
Apatow often serves as a mentor to the young people in his comedy troupe. The advice he hands out is exactly what he learned from watching Carrey and Sandler: They succeeded by writing their own movies to star in, so start typing. He barely knew Jonah Hill, now 25, when he hooked him up with a scriptwriting deal. "I was living at home, getting my tonsils taken out, and I was getting an e-mail from Judd saying, Here's your Universal movie deal. Now write down 100 ideas," says Hill. "My parents were like, 'Is this guy touching...