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Every year for the past two decades, the movie that was No. 1 Thanksgiving weekend also won the following weekend. This time, the picture that finished second in the previous two frames rose to the top by not falling too far. The Sandra Bullock vehicle dropped 49% from last weekend, to $20.4 million, while New Moon fell 70%, to $15.7 million. All the other holdovers among the top dozen films - A Christmas Carol, Old Dogs, 2012, Ninja Assassin, Planet 51, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Precious - took a steep tumble, from 52% for A Christmas Carol to 67% for Precious...
...with the movie's eloquent word of mouth. But no one need feel sorry for New Moon. Its domestic gross, $255.6 million, is nearly double that of The Blind Side's $129.3 million. And with a modest budget of $50 million, a worldwide cumulative gross of $570 million and two or three more Twilight movies in the offing, the franchise has a lot of bite left in it. (Read "New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending...
...Toronto film festivals. The National Board of Review, the first big group to announce its year-end awards, showered Up in the Air with four major laurels: best film, actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay. The picture, which comes to your neighborhood on Christmas Day, nudged two other Clooney movies, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Men Who Stare at Goats...
...second weekend, Disney's animated feature The Princess and the Frog earned a gigantic gross - $744,000 - with four shows per day at just two sites: the Ziegfeld in Manhattan and a theater on the Disney lot in Burbank. Why did it do so well? Because the ticket price is a whopping $50, with the perk of a trip to a nearby venue (Roseland in New York), where the wee ones can have their pictures taken with all nine Disney cartoon princesses and get a lesson in drawing one of the film's characters from a Disney animator. Many...
Clarification: Our first caption on this post's photo didn't make it clear that this is a picture from two years ago. Not enough of the snow has stuck to make snowmen just yet...but it's getting there...