Nov 7th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Walt Disney Studios' big-budget holiday bet "A Christmas Carol" got off to a soft start Friday, selling a studio-estimated $9 million in the U.S. and Canada.
Based on the performance of similar films, that means the motion-capture-animated tale starring Jim Carrey should gross $30 million to $35 million through Sunday, a relatively weak debut given its production budget of nearly $200 million and Disney's substantial investment in marketing.
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Nov 9th, 2009 - MTV
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...Carrey's Carol tops US box office
Nov 9th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Carrey voices a number of characters, including the miserly Scrooge (r)
Disney's animated version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol has topped the North American box office chart in its first weekend on release.
However...Carrey's animated "Christmas Carol" opens as No. 1
Nov 9th, 2009 - The Denver Post
LOS ANGELES — Jim Carrey's "A Christmas Carol" took in $31 million to open as the weekend's top movie. The Disney animated version of the Charles Dickens classic knocked the King of Pop out of the No...
'Disney's A Christmas Carol Sings To The Top Of The Saturday Box Office
Nov 7th, 2009 - MTV
1. "A Christmas Carol" ($8.9 million)
2. "The Fourth Kind" ($5 million)
3. "The Men Who Stare At Goats" ($4.6 million)
4. "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($4.1 million)
5...
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