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Jim Carrey joins the legions of actors who have played Ebenezer Scrooge. In honor of the latest version of "A Christmas Carol," we offer a quiz to test your smarts about this classic.
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Classic spin on a classic tale
We've seen Bill Murray in a famously dark and adult movie adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" called "Scrooged." And we've seen the opposite end of the spectrum: a Disney cartoon version, called "Mickey's Christmas Carol," starring Scrooge McDuck.
Yeara s blockbuster movies hit DVD shelves
Several of the year's top-grossing movies hit DVD in November. Two of the biggest are the reinvention of the "Star Trek" franchise, and the Pixar animation of "Up," about an old man and a boy who fly to South America.
If Charles Dickens had been visited by the Ghost of Christmas Carols Future, you have to wonder what he would've thought of the countless ways his original has been retold .
The new animated version of A Christmas Carol has razzle-dazzle, but no heart
Victorian-era miser Ebenezer Scrooge is taken on a journey of self-discovery in the animated retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Movie review: Scrooged, again, with Disney's 'A Christmas Carol'
You cannot ruin the essence of "A Christmas Carol." The example of a man who learns that wealth is not happiness, but happiness is wealth, is surely eternal.
Quirky favorite sets tone of cinema celebration
Imagine a science-fiction film made by the co-creator of "Saturday Night Live." Opening Night Gala What: The Olympia Film Festival opens with a chance to view "Saturday Night Live" co-creator Tom Schiller's rarely seen feature film "Nothing Lasts Forever" plus four of his "SNL" Schiller's Reel shorts .
Chicago: Second City Alumni Return To Chi-Town For 50th Anniversary Par-Tay
Almost every famous hilarious comic got his or her start at Chicago's Second City , a training center, theater and overall jokester factory.
Classic 'Carol' captured for modern filmgoers
Ebenezer Scrooge has been haunting the holiday season ever since Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published in 1843 and the miserly old geezer has also been "bah humbug-ing" the big screen for decades.
Paranormal activity? Call local ghost busters
Yakima's ghost busters aren't sucking up ectoplasmic residue in metal canisters that look suspiciously like backpack vacuum cleaners the way Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and other paranormal scientists did in the 1984 movie.
Home From 'Groundhog' Getting Facelift
A home in Woodstock, Ill., featured in the movie "Groundhog Day" is being renovated into a bed and breakfast, a construction company owner says.
Distinctive voice: Bill Murray is the Badger in the animated version of Fantastic Mr Fox.
BILL Murray made his name in classics such as Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. Now he's back as a badger in the film animation of the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox, which opens in cinemas today.
Emma Stone stars in box office winners
The single most exciting moment in actress Emma Stone's life was introducing her father to Bill Murray.
You're Never Going to Direct Unless You Get a Little Crazy
The opening paragraphs of this L.A. Times article portrays indie auteur Wes Anderson as a narcissistic lunatic who dictated his direction of the upcoming animated feature, The Fantastic Mr.
Cinderella Story: About to Become the Master's Champion
Fellow Masters, take a break from the market and enjoy this classic clip from the original Caddyshack where Bill Murray as Carl Spackler breaks into the Cinderella Man Story .A Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot.
I loved "The Darjeeling Limited" from the very beginning - whether you trace that beginning to the short film " Hotel Chevalier ," starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, which preceded the film at its New York Film Festival screenings, or to the scene that culminates in Bill Murray running for a train and being overtaken by a younger man, ...
Bill Murray's World of Pharma: 'Groundhog Day' and 'Lost in Translation'? By Mike Williams
An inevitable fact, however unwelcome, is that the pool of viable companies and compounds, like oil, rapidly is being depleted, leaving in its stead what author and Bear Stearns Managing Partner Jurgen Drews described in 2003 as the pieces of coal that hopes and best efforts are unlikely to turn into the diamonds that can become blockbuster drugs.
ABSTRACT: PROFILE of director Wes Anderson. For more than a year, Wes Anderson has been engaged in the production of an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book "Fantastic Mr.
He was born on September 21, 1950 in Illinois. He is twice divorced and has six children.
Bill Murray: Clooney's a motormouth
Bill Murray has joked that his Fantastic Mr Fox co-star George Clooney talks a lot.
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