The prospect of a child’s death is so awful that to broach it in a movie or a book requires a special measure of caution and sensitivity. Or so you might think. But at least since Victorian novelists from Charles ...Read More
It has been said that Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" created the holiday as we know it. Even the latest Hollywood iteration, a big-budget computer-animated extravaganza, is substantially faithful to the early-Victorian original. A celebration once banned by Puritans in ...Read More
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, its $31m (£18.5m) haul was less ...Read More
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. 1 spot as ...Read More
LOS ANGELES - Jim Carrey's new take on "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. 1 ...Read More
Robert Zemeckis has long been a filmmaker divided against himself, the techno-geek warring with the storyteller. His newest work, "Disney's A Christmas Carol" (Charles Dickens -- demoted!), is an extravaganza of colliding intentions. But just when you give up on ...Read More
Disney's A Christmas Carol (PG, 96 minutes). It's hard to know what age group this dour, ultra-spooky animated adaptation of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will appeal to. A showcase for actor Jim Carrey and advances in a particular type ...Read More
Charles Dickens was hardly a master of subtlety, but it's hard to imagine he would appreciate this frenetic, in-your-face and vapid interpretation of his classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol.
While faithful to some aspects of Dickens' original, director Robert Zemeckis ...Read More
As Ebenezer Scrooge (not to mention The Grinch), Jim Carrey aims to put a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking and a lump of emotion in the throat. That he fails is not for lack of effort.
In Disney's A ...Read More
Scrooge has been very generous to Hollywood, but every movie made about the cranky old cheapskate also has to give something back.
There have been countless adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, from Mr. Magoo to Alastair Sim and Bill ...Read More
Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr. Magoo. Scrooge McDuck.
Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his name, starring in Disney's new 3-D animation version of Charles ...Read More
Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens' imagination. Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis' new take on "A Christmas Carol" brings to life the fantasy about miser Ebenezer Scrooge's holiday redemption in a way old Hollywood never could have dreamed. Animated adaptations ...Read More
Could someone please keep Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis away from cherished holiday classics? We’ve already had to endure Carrey mugging it up as the Grinch while Zemeckis turned “The Polar Express” into a bloated and freaky-looking theme park ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Take a classic Christmas tale, a dollop of Jim Carrey and a sprinkling of innovative movie technology.
Bake for 96 minutes, Hollywood style, and you've got the latest version of "A Christmas Carol", arriving in movie theaters ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens' imagination.
Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis' new take on "A Christmas Carol" brings to life the fantasy about miser Ebenezer Scrooge's holiday redemption in a way old Hollywood never could have dreamed.
Animated ...Read More
London's Christmas lights are being switched on earlier this year
The Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights are to be switched on at precisely the same time later.
Actor Jim Carrey will flick the switch on the Oxford Street lights, ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Wasn't Charles Dickens the author of "A Christmas Carol?" Well, now it's "Disney's A Christmas Carol" that opens on Friday. Even that's a misnomer. It should be "Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol." This is not nitpicking, ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?
The latest version of Charles Dickens' "A ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has been subjected to many indignities, from high school pageants to tired Hollywood remakes. But "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" makes you wish you do believe in ghosts so the old ...Read More
