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Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey managed to climb their way to the top of the box office this past weekend with their retelling of A Christmas Carol. Audiences responded despite the seemingly early holiday release, and although the opening weekend didn't quite live up to expectations, it will probably continue to steadily make money over the next two months. Michael Jackson's This Is It dropped to #2 but still made $14 million, while The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Fourth Kind weren't far behind. Paranormal Activity fell to #5. Disappointing news for Richard Kelly as his latest film The Box had a pretty lacklustre weekend, earning just $7.8 million, perhaps due to the fact that it was a difficult movie to market. The biggest story, however, appears to be the indie film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, which opened at #12 but it made $1.8 million on just 18 screens -- »
- Sean

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Sure, technically Jim Carrey and company won the weekend with the 3D animated adventure A Christmas Carol, but the real reason everyone’s talking about this weekend’s box office is because of another movie’s totals.
Remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about how unbelievable it was that Paranormal Activity had a per screen average of $44,000? Well a little indie called Precious came in and mopped the floor with those totals. Precious played in just 18 theaters and grossed $1.8 million. Folks, that’s a $100,000 per screen average. To put that in perspective, if A Christmas Carol had the same per screen average, it would have grossed over $360 million (instead of $31 million).
This indicates a high degree of interest in the movie, and this weekend’s total will only add to that. Additionally, some people have been throwing around the “O” word, as in Oscar.  It received a standing ovation at Cannes, »
- Shannon Hood

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Watch a brand new kick ass movie trailer featuring Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist in the upcoming film “Kick-Ass” by director Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) and starring Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider 2, Astro Boy), Aaron Johnson (Nearly Famous), Christopher Mintx-Plasse, Frank Strong, and Chloe Moretz. Synopsis: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Kick-Ass”. »
- Brian Corder

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