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With release activity at the domestic box office heating up for the holidays and the awards season, Friday saw soft openings for Disney’s expensive 3D stop-motion-animated “A Christmas Carol” and Overture’s ensemble satire “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”
Universal, meanwhile, seemed to benefit from the current public interest in verite-style sci-fi/horror, with paranormally themed “The Fourth Kind” enjoying a better-than-expected premiere. Also, Lionsgate awards hopeful “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire&... »
- Daniel Frankel
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