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Vampires, werewolves and dewy teen girls continued their profitable prowl through the multiplexes, as The Twilight Saga: New Moon was No. 1 for the long holiday weekend. The second film in the Twilight quartet racked up $42.5 million for the usual Friday-to-Sunday frame and $66 million during the five-day Thanksgiving span. The Stephenie Meyer phenomenon has now taken in $230.7 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates. That makes it, after just 10 days, the sixth highest-grossing movie of 2009. New Moon has amassed even more abroad, $243 million, which suggests it will cross...
Chalk up part of The Blind Side's success to a condition that might be called seasonal affection. With the big college teams fighting for conference championships and audiences in a beneficent holiday mood, the mass audience must have figured it was downright Thanksgiving-y to see a real-life uplifter about a crack addict's son who is adopted by a nice white couple and pulls himself up to be a star tackle at Ole Miss. (Sort of Rudy meets Precious.) It doesn't hurt that the movie's subject, Michael Oher, graduated impressively from college...
...folks everywhere: Europe and Asia get destroyed along with the U.S.) After biding its time since early November, A Christmas Carol saw a 30% bump from the previous weekend, to finish fifth. Audiences decided, since they had started their Christmas shopping, that it might be time to see a holiday movie. Robert Zemeckis' CGI spectacular, which cost at least $200 million (as did 2012), still has a way to go to break even: 26 moviegoing days until Dec. 25. (See cinematic visions of the apocalypse...
...with Thanksgiving and in with Christmas, the holiday season is here! As Harvard students flock back to campus with full stomachs and stressful schedules, one house takes the Christmukkah spirit to a new level...
...merriment of the week doesn’t tire everyone out, Kirklanders will conclude with the annual Holiday Dinner and Dance, less formally known as “Incestfest.” Bringing out-of-house lovers? Highly discouraged. Making out with that house crush you’ve had your eye on? Highly encouraged...