Carrey's 'Christmas Carol' wraps up $31M weekend
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Posted: 2009-11-08 12:08:03
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jim Carrey's Scrooge is collecting holiday
donations from movie fans with a $31 million opening weekend to
take the No. 1 spot with his new take on "A Christmas Carol."
The Disney animated version of the Charles Dickens classic
features Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and as all three Christmas
ghosts that show Scrooge the error of his miserly ways.
The movie was shot with the same performance-capture technology
director Robert Zemeckis (zuh-MEH-kihs) used on his 2004 holiday
offering "The Polar Express."
"Christmas Carol" came in ahead of "Polar Express," which
had an opening weekend of $23.5 million.
But it fell well short of the $55.1 million opening for Carrey's
previous holiday tale, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole
Christmas" in 2000.
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