‘A Christmas Carol’ Spreads Holiday Cheer In The Sunday Box Office Report
1. “A Christmas Carol” ($31 million)
2. “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” ($14 million)
3. “The Men Who Stare At Goats” ($13.3 million)
2. “The Fourth Kind” ($12.5 million)
5. “Paranormal Activity” ($8.6 million)
Did Ebenezer Scrooge learn his lesson at the box office this weekend? It’s difficult to say, as the Jim Carrey-starring “A Christmas Carol” certainly took the [...]
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’ Clip Is Rife With Paranormal Activity
I’m torn on Disney’s and Robert Zemeckis’s retelling of “A Christmas Carol.” One the one hand, eye candy is badass and this is a movie that’s full of it. Jim Carrey is also a big selling point, especially with all of that fancy performance capture tech bringing his already-malleable face into the digital realm.
On the [...]
‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’ Kicks Off The Holiday Season In This Week’s Box Office Poll
Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey and Disney join forces this week in what is likely to be the box office-topping release of the performance capture-animated retelling of “A Christmas Carol.” Expect the same, old story beats in a fresh new format. And there are plenty of options available for those who crave different degrees of face-meltingly [...]
A New Trailer Emerges For ‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’
I’ve got plenty of irrational fears in my life, but one in particular that I think is perfectly rational is my fear of performance capture animation. For all of the technical wizardry on display, the characters in “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf” leave me feeling cold and unsettled.
I’ve been feeling much the same way about [...]
Ebenezer Scrooge Is Terrified By What He Sees In Our EXCLUSIVE ‘A Christmas Carol’ Still
It could be a mirror he’s looking into. That performance capture stuff freaks me out, man. It is Uncanny Valley, defined. Performance capture characters look plenty human, but they’re “off” somehow. “Polar Express” freaked me out, “Beowulf” freaked me out and now “A Christmas Carol” is freaking me out. It’s also a kickass story, and [...]
Robert Zemeckis Talks ‘A Christmas Carol,’ A ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ Sequel At San Diego Comic-Con
Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis showed off Disney’s new 3-D motion capture technology that will be used in November’s release of “A Christmas Carol” starring Jim Carrey.
Everyone in the audience was given a pair of 3-D glasses as they entered Hall H, most of them coming from a long line in anticipation of the “New Moon” panel [...]
Disney Classic ‘Beauty And The Beast’ To Pop Off The Screen In 3D
Buried in the depths of Disney’s massive San Diego Comic-Con press release today is the news that “Beauty and the Beast,” a highlight of the studio’s late-20th century renaissance, will be enhanced with 3D digital effects for a February 12, 2010 theatrical re-release. The timeless story continues to be revisited even today, with the upcoming [...]
A Brief Look At Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
by Jett Wells
New York press and movie critics got their first glimpse at an animated Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge in a presentation of 3-D footage from Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” at the Regal E-Walk Theatre this week.
Two scenes were shown from the performance capture-driven film, directed by Robert Zemeckis (”Polar Express“), along with a [...]
