It may be only the first week of November, but Disney's "A Christmas Carol" got the holiday season started by spiriting $31 million at the box office, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
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.
It may be only the first week of November, but Disney's "A Christmas Carol" got the holiday season started by spiriting $31 million at the box office, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
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.
The question is a toughie: Would audiences rather see Jim Carrey and his slightly-less-rubbery face resurrect the same comic schtick for Warners' "Yes Man" that made him a star, or watch Will Smith save souls while running through the rain in Sony's spiritual tearjerker "Seven Pounds"?
It's been a while since Jim Carrey did an out-and-out comedy -- unless you count "Fun With Dick and Jane," which I don't. "Yes Man" isn't going to figure in any Top 10 lists or Oscar prognostications, but it takes a simple idea and runs with it, reminding us how Carrey became such a big star in the first place.
Jim Carrey has been scoring points with Jenny McCarthy's 5-year-old son, Evan – with his role as the voice of the lead character in Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who.
Video courtesy Harpo ProductionsForget roses and a romantic dinner. Jim Carrey had another Valentine's Day plan for girlfriend Jenny McCarthy. "We're just gonna go everywhere she ever existed – you know, where she had her first kiss," the comedian says on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show set to air Monday.
Best Super Bowl XLII moment? My vote goes to Eli Manning, standing atop the Lombardi podium and sporting a grossly oversized championship T-shirt over his uniform, defiant in his doofy-ness to the last second. Of course, the commercials offered a few highlights, too -- though not as many as we always seem to expect. My favorites, in no particular order:
Jenny McCarthy is just like everybody else when it comes to her fitness regime: diet and exercise - and home workout equipment that she doesn't really use for its proper purpose.
Even as the great and good assemble for the annual orgy of self-congratulation that is the Oscars ceremony, you have to wonder if there has ever been a greater disconnect between the films up for the awards and the movies the studios are pumping out on a weekly basis.
Let's see: Adam Sandler has been an immature, lazy student ("Billy Madison"); an immature, lazy golfer ("Happy Gilmore"); an immature, lazy wedding singer ("The Wedding Singer"); an immature, lazy father ("Big Daddy"); and an immature, lazy son of the devil ("Little Nicky").
Few could have predicted that Bill Murray, Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler would ever be taken seriously as actors, so hear me out when I say that Will Ferrell, over the next decade, could make a similar transformation.
Based on the first three novels of the deliciously malicious "Lemony Snicket" series, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" chronicles the misfortunes of the three extraordinary Baudelaire orphans, who are left in the not-so-loving care of a wickedly eccentric actor after their parents die in a mysterious fire.
In his opening statements to a jury, Michael Jackson's lead defense attorney said Monday that the mother of his client's accuser has a long history of using her son's illness to pry money from celebrities.
How much would you pay to name a new species? It's a mammal. Now how much would you pay? Not only is it a mammal, it's a monkey, a cute, furry little primate from the Bolivian rainforest.
Daniel Handler has a vested interest in hoping the movie "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" -- expected to be a big holiday draw -- plays well.
Maybe hiring a quack to erase the memories of an ex-girlfriend wasn't such a smart move for Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But most investors would do well to cultivate a litt...
Convinced that the world revolves around you--or, at least, that it should? Several controversial new devices enable the self-absorbed consumer to make life a little more like The Truman Show, only...
If you're old enough to attend an R-rated movie without a chaperone, you probably sympathize with Esquire's assessment of this past summer. After sitting through "one crappy blockbuster after anoth...
On a sunny August afternoon in Los Angeles, a crowd of teens gathers outside the studios of Nickelodeon, the children's cable television network. They've come to this seedy stretch of Sunset Boulev...
Road shows--when bankers take executives schmoozing before an IPO--are famously dreary. To ease the pain, Boston Coach (800-558-3910; bostoncoach.com) has started a Road Show Service. The 24-hour h...
When it comes to strengthening those domestic bonds, you can't beat a family trip into the scenic American countryside. Except for the family, of course. And the trip. Oh, yeah--and the scenic Amer...
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