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Hoskins Quit Booze For Wife

22 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Movie legend Bob Hoskins credits his wife with forcing him to quit drinking alcohol - because he would have died if he'd carried on boozing.

The Mona Lisa star curbed his red wine intake when wife Linda told him it made him behave stupidly, and he thanks her for insisting he change his ways - because he was heading for certain death.

Hoskins says, "I thought it was a social thing, but she got fed up with it and said, 'Enough'. She's very clever, my wife. She worked out how to get me to stop. She made me aware that when I drank I was being a complete pain in the a**e.

"I probably wouldn't be alive without her. I'd have drunk myself into a complete stupor and died." »

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Frugal Christmas arrives early for Disney at UK box office

10 November 2009 9:04 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It's only November and A Christmas Carol is already No 1, albeit with a lacklustre £1.92m. The box-office feast will only truly start next week with 2012 and the Twilight sequel

The chart-topper

Knocking Michael Jackson's This Is It off the top spot, Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture animation A Christmas Carol can at least be satisfied with its chart position. As for its opening gross – £1.92m – that's another matter entirely.

In the first place, it's behind the openings of the previous two motion-capture films from the Zemeckis stable: Polar Express earned £2.14m from its first weekend of wide play in 2004, and Beowulf debuted with £2.2m in November 2007. (And bear in mind, there were fewer than 60 3D screens in the UK when Beowulf opened, compared with 260 now.) Second, A Christmas Carol's debut is well behind that of 2009 big-hitters Bolt, Monsters Vs Aliens, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Up. It's even »

- Charles Gant

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DVD Playhouse--November 2009

9 November 2009 7:05 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—November 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 8:49 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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A Christmas Carol Review

9 November 2009 12:59 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday story “A Christmas Carol” gets the 3D treatment, and the result is a visually stunning big-screen experience I’m sure many cinema goers out there will enjoy to the fullest extent. As far as I’m concerned, my feelings about this one are mixed.

The story doesn’t really require a lengthy introduction. The holiday season is in full swing, and Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) despises Christmas and everyone celebrating it. Then he’s visited by three ghosts who take him on an emotional journey, and before you know it, his meanness is gone for good…read more [ScreeningLog]

It’s hard to believe that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol 166 years ago, but here we are in 2009 and Robert Zemeckis has spent $180 million to produce a motion-capture animated film that retells the famous story. The movie opens this weekend on more than 2,000 digital 3D screens and »

- Allan Ford

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A Christmas Carol Review – Not Quite Magical Yet!

8 November 2009 9:21 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Robert Zemeckis is so convinced by the creative merits of motion-capture technology he has abandoned live-action filmmaking. Forever. Or so he keeps telling anybody who will listen. The director would argue he has freed himself from the tyrannies of filmmaking and problems he could not control. Mo-cap has destroyed the accidents, trouble and hassle associated with undertaking a major production. With untold creative choices, it seems Zemeckis has become rather stuck. If it is such a radical, revolutionary tool – why not use it as such?

In choosing material, Zemeckis, very tellingly, has gone for literary adaptations: from children’s books to Dickens (with a poetic epic in between). If the director created an original work off his own back (and imagination) would it appeal to us as much? Raiding literature for material is nothing new. Yet there is a sense he’s never held a burning desire to make any »

- Martyn Conterio

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A Christmas Carol: ‘Twas a Spiritless Affair, Indeed

6 November 2009 11:03 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Movies have supremely warped my conception of time. No longer do I judge the fragments of the year in terms of trite notions of spring, summer, fall and winter. Instead my calendar is notated with marketing strategies of major studios. For example, the beginning of the year is award season, followed by a dumping ground, followed by the blockbusters, another dumping ground, horrorween, and finally holiday season. Having just hurdled horrorween relatively unscathed, we find ourselves staring down the barrel of a number of films ready to bank on the inescapable jubilance of the next two months. For me, this is the cinematic season that garners the highest level of concern. The thing is there are very few holiday films that I watch on a regular basis that were released after 1987. Elf would be an exception to that block given that I find it to be a pitch perfect holiday film that captures the child-like wonder of »

- Brian Salisbury

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Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’

6 November 2009 4:30 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Charles Dickens purists, fear not. Robert Zemeckis remains faithful to the beloved tale, all the while putting his own spin on the story. This version is a little more exciting,  and a lot more sinister than previous outings (it also happens to be in 3D),  but I loved it.

I don’t think I really need to spend much time on the plot. Everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the original curmudgeon who hates everyone and everything and is just downright unpleasant. One Christmas Eve, he is visited by four ghosts;  his former business partner Marley;  the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas future.

After seeing himself through the eyes of others that he visits with these ghosts, Ebenezer changes his wicked ways. His long suffering but loyal employee, Bob Cratchit,  has a son who is very ill and the no »

- Shannon Hood

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‘A Christmas Carol’ Review

6 November 2009 3:13 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Short Version: There are already so many great adaptions of the classic Dickens story – this one adds nothing but CGI and gimmicky 3D effects.

Screen Rant reviews A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is one of my all time favorite Christmas stories. Maybe because most of the year I feel like a somewhat cranky Ebenezer Scrooge but once Thanksgiving is over my mood lightens over the spirit of the upcoming holiday. It seems that every few years someone feels the need to do an update on the classic tale, and sometimes it works. Heck there have certainly been a lot of versions over the years (over two dozen on TV and in movies according to IMDb), and I’ve enjoyed many of those myself.

 

This time director Robert Zemeckis (who seems intent upon never making another live action film as long as he lives) brings us another 3D, IMAX, CGI motion-capture extravaganza. »

- Vic Holtreman

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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 11.06.09

6 November 2009 2:34 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

A Christmas Carol Studio: Disney Rated: PG for scary sequences and images. Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Robin Wright Penn Directed by: Robert Zemeckis What it’s about: If you don’t know this by now, you should be barred from the holiday season worldwide. What I liked: By this time, you should know exactly what to expect when you get a Robert Zemeckis motion-capture film. Like The Polar Express and Beowulf, A Christmas Carol is heavy on the effects and virtual camerawork and relatively weak on the character and plot. We’ve seen this story adapted so many times in so many forms – from feature films to re-tellings on our favorite 80s sit com – that there is almost no unique way to approach it. The uniqueness of this version is that the full-blown CGI extravaganza hasn’t been done yet. In this sense, it does work. The »

- Kevin Carr

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The Reject Report Sings a Christmas Carol, Stares At Goats

6 November 2009 9:51 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Welcome to another Reject Report! As you can tell it's November, Halloween is now over and Christmas is right around the corner. How do we know this? Because the Christmas movies have started with A Christmas Carol. We also have the horror flick The Box, the thriller The Fourth Kind, and the Oscar season movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. So let's get on with it. We start this week with The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Robert Patrick . It's freaky stuff about a journalist who ends up going to Iraq and meeting up with this former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battallion, a military unit that uses psychic and paramilitary powers in their missions. This flick rolled out to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and I expect it to do good business over a number of »

- John Cairns

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Disney’s A Christmas Carol – in 3D

6 November 2009 3:44 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Disney’s A Christmas Carol

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn, Bob Hoskins

Running Time: 1 hr. 36 mins

Rating: PG

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Plot: Charles Dickens’ classic tale getting another version, this time in 3D. Scrooge (Carrey) is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve in the hopes that the old man can change his nasty ways.

Who’S It For? First and foremost, this is for people who love the story that’s been told many times. For the most part, it stays true to form. Those loving the third dimension will be pleased as well. Parents on the other hand will begin to worry right away when Scrooge removes some coins from a dead man’s eyes.

Expectations: I’ve seen almost every version of this tale and lean toward A Muppet Christmas Carol as my personal fave. Jim Carrey has »

- Jeff Bayer

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Movie Review: "A Christmas Carol"

5 November 2009 9:31 PM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

Seen on: November 2, 2009

The players: Director: Robert Zemeckis, Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn

Facts of interest: Based on the story by Charles Dickens, obviously.

The plot: The classic tale is back on the big screen, and Scrooge is still hating Christmas, until three spirits pay him an important visit...

Our thoughts: Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday story “A Christmas Carol” gets the 3D treatment, and the result is a visually stunning big-screen experience I’m sure many cinemagoers out there will enjoy to the fullest extent. As far as I’m concerned, my feelings about this one are mixed. »

- Franck Tabouring

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"Disney's A Christmas Carol" Looks to Top Box Office! Watch My Movie Review

5 November 2009 8:16 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Do I look festive enough? :happy

"Disney's A Christmas Carol" spread Holiday cheer a wee bit early. And it's looking to conquer the box-office this weekend over Warner Bros.' "The Box" and Universal's "The Fourth Kind."

Read my newspaper review of "A Christmas Carol" right here, otherwise, check out my TV review, and, um, have a Merry Christmas! :happy

Here's more info about "Disney's A Christmas Carol" from Yahoo:

Cast and Credits

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Produced by: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey

Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo »

- Manny

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Review: Did you ever see… Who Framed Roger Rabbit

5 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

This week sees the release of the year’s first Christmas movie, Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. The latest in a long line of adaptations of this classic story, Zemeckis has made it using his motion capture animation. This is the third movie Zemeckis has made using the technique, having perfected it after Polar Express and Beowulf. Zemeckis has been interested in combining human actors and animation for a long time. With news breaking last week of a sequel in development, it’s the perfect time to look back at 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Following huge success with Back to the Future in 1985, Robert Zemeckis was in big demand. This allowed him the clout to take hold of  what would be a hugely ambitious project. Live action had been combined with animation previously, most notably in Mary Poppins. No-one yet, however, had attempted a feature length movie.

Bob Hoskins is a 1940’s private dick, »

- Barry Steele

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