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Jim Carrey's SCROOGE in 'A Christmas Carol' (16 Nov 09)
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Post Last Edit by seribulan at 10-11-2009 20:34
Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood holiday spirit
 AP – Actor Jim Carrey speaks during an event opening the final stop on 'Disney's A Christmas Carol' train …
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer David Germain, Ap Movie Writer – Mon Nov 2, 6:57 am ET
LOS ANGELES – Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge.So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the oldmoney-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers fromtheir cash?
The latest version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" features Jim Carreyas Scrooge. Coming on Ebenezer's coattails will be everything fromvampire romance ("The Twilight Saga: New Moon") and end-of-the-worldstories ("2012," "The Road") to epic science fiction ("Avatar") and anew incarnation of the world's greatest detective ("Sherlock Holmes").
Presented in 3-D, "Disney's A Christmas Carol" is the latest from Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump"), who presents Dickens' London with the same performance-capture technology he used on "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf."
Carrey and such co-stars as Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskinsworked on a bare soundstage, their bodies covered with sensors sodigital cameras could record their performances in 360 degrees. Sets,costumes and other details were filled in later by computer animation.
Theprocess allowed actors to take on multiple roles, with Carrey playingScrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come thatteach him the meaning of the season.
While Zemeckis loves Alastair Sim's1951 "A Christmas Carol," he said previous adaptations never capturedthe full impact of Dickens' surreal images. As he made "Beowulf,"Zemeckis realized he now had the tools to bring "A Christmas Carol" tothe screen the way he imagined it on the page.
"It was the idea of being able to actually recreate Londonand not have any limitations whatsoever. Anything that existed at thetime we could present," Zemeckis said. "Then the idea that Jim couldplay Scrooge in all the different ages, and the ghosts, they could behis alter-ego, and he could play those. Everything just fell intoplace."
With "Sherlock Holmes," Robert Downey Jr. and director Guy Ritchie also recreate old London while reinventing Arthur Conan Doyle's brainy, monkish detective as an action hero, verbal quipster — and even a bit of a lover.
Downey's Holmes fights with fists, clubs, pistols and hammers, trades odd-couple banter with best buddy and roommate Watson (Jude Law), and shares romantic moments with the one woman (Rachel McAdams) who never got the better of him.
Itwas a nice change of pace for Downey after he leaped to the box-officeA-list with last year's comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man."
"Itwas such a radical departure," Downey said. "A period piece. A very,very established kind of iconic image comes to mind when you think ofSherlock Holmes. Whereas Iron Man was a relatively unknownquote-unquote second tier superhero ... until last year."
Another series that jumped to blockbuster status last year was Hollywood's take on author Stephenie Meyer's love story between a sensitive schoolgirl (Kristen Stewart) and her immortal vampire boy toy (Robert Pattinson).
Thesecond installment, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," is a lesson in teenheartache as Pattinson's Edward dumps Stewart's Bella, realizing thedanger he represents to his human girlfriend.
The brooding Bella finds solace with a school chum (Taylor Lautner) and his werewolf gang and eventually winds up pulling Edward out of a jam.
"Edwardbreaks up with Bella for her own protection, but Bella believes it'sbecause he doesn't love her any more, and she goes into a terribledepression," said "New Moon" director Chris Weitz."In the end, there's kind of a lovely turnaround whereby Bella has togo and save Edward, having been saved by him throughout their past."
Also in the fantasy realm, James Cameron is back with his first fictional film since 1997's "Titanic" swamped Hollywood to become king of the Oscarsand the biggest modern blockbuster. "Avatar" also marks Cameron'sreturn to his science-fiction roots and a reunion with "Aliens" star Sigourney Weaver, who joins Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldanaamong the cast of the filmmaker's 3-D epic about humans taking on theform of extraterrestrials as they explore a distant world.
"Whatwe have on the screen right now is 150 percent of what I imagined. Theother 50 percent is the part I could not have imagined without havingthe actors there, without working with a team of artists who come upwith all these amazing, outlandish designs," Cameron said. "My job wasreally kind of herding the cats, getting the artists to kind of becohesive about the aesthetic decision, so it was all one world, so itseemed like part of an evolutionary or ecological system."
Hollywood has dozens of other films, big and small, coming before year's end.
Here's the lowdown on some highlights:
HUSBANDS, WIVES AND LOVERS:
"Chicago" director Rob Marshallorchestrates his latest musical with "Nine," based on the Broadwayadaptation of Federico Fellini's foreign-language classic "8 1/2."
It's the story of a filmmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his many, many women: His wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his mom (Sophia Loren), his film star (Nicole Kidman), his costume designer (Judi Dench), a lover from his youth (Stacy Ferguson), and a fashion journalist (Kate Hudson).
Singing in a recording studio was a new challenge for some of the cast, including Cruz.
"You feel very vulnerable, because you can't hide anything," Cruz said at this year's Cannes Film Festival."But it was so much fun. After you are there and you start singing andeverything starts to come together, if you can really be in the momentand enjoy it, it's an amazing experience."
Also in the mood for love:
"Did You Hear About the Morgans?" — A Manhattan couple (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) in a rocky marriage find new twists in their relationship after they see a murder and are hustled into witness protection.
"It's Complicated" — A messy love triangle develops among a bakery and restaurant owner (Meryl Streep), her ex-hubby (Alec Baldwin) and an architect (Steve Martin) in the latest from director Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give").
FOXES, FROGS AND RODENTS:
Meryl Streep also joins George Clooney and Bill Murray among the voice cast of Wes Anderson's animated comedy "Fantastic Mr. Fox," the tale of a wily fox waging war with human farmers.
Anderson gave his voice actors a taste of rustic life by taking them to a real farm to record the vocals.
"It was like going to camp," Clooney said at October's London Film Festival,where "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was the opening-night movie. "We were out inthe middle of nowhere on people's farms, doing sound effects androlling around in the fields."
Also among the menagerie:
"Alvin and the Chipmunks:The Squeakquel" — The followup to the family hit about critter croonersAlvin, Simon and Theodore has the threesome finding their hearts andsinging talents tested in a battle of the bands against a trio offemale chipmunks.
"The Princess and the Frog" — Disney animation goes old-school as the studio releases its first hand-drawn cartoon in five years with this update of "The Frog Prince" fairy tale, set on the jazzy Louisiana bayou.
THE END OF THE WORLD:
The Mayan calendar predicted an end of days in 2012.
Director Roland Emmerich makes good on that prophecy with his latest doomsday story "2012," featuring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and Danny Gloverin a tale of a world devastated by cataclysm and struggling with aterrible quandary: Who do you choose when you can save only a fractionof humanity?
"It's like a Noah's Ark story in a way," Cusack said. "Itmirrors a few of the ethical dilemmas that are posed by asking thequestion of who gets to go and who doesn't."
Also on the apocalypse front:
"The Road" — Author Cormac McCarthy's starkly poetic vision of doom comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Viggo Mortensen as a father on a desperate road trip across the wreckage of America, seeking some hope of a future for his young son.
INSPIRATION ON THE PLAYING FIELD:
Clint Eastwood taps "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unforgiven" co-star Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandelain "Invictus," a post-apartheid drama about the South African presidentrallying black and white behind his country's rugby team during anunderdog run in the 1995 World Cup.
Matt Damon, who co-stars as the captain of South Africa's rugby squad, said Freeman was the only choice to play Mandela.
"Someone would have been keelhauled if he hadn't played that role," Damon said.
Also from the wide world of sports:
"The Blind Side" — Just in time for his rookie season with the Baltimore Ravens comes this real-life drama about Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a black youth surviving on his own who gets a shot at a better life after he's adopted by a white couple (Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw).
FAMILY AFFAIRS:
"Lord of the Rings" mastermind Peter Jackson turns to the homefront while keeping a foot in otherworldly realms with "The Lovely Bones," an adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel about a slain girl (Saoirse Ronan) watching over her family from heaven.
The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci.
Jackson said he cried when he read the novel.
"If the things that I was imagining that made me cry could be put onscreen, I thought this would be really amazing," Jackson said. "BecauseI think the book is an incredible book, but it's very personal. And Ithink what you get out of that book depends a lot on what experienceyou've had in your life and what experience of death that you've had,and losing loved ones."
Also in a family way:
"Up in the Air"— Happily living life without connections, a corporate hatchet man(George Clooney) travels the country aiming for a 10 million-milefrequent-flyer milestone only to discover that family bonds might bethe greater value, after all.
"Old Dogs" — A divorced guy (Robin Williams) enlists his womanizing best buddy and business partner (John Travolta) to help care for the twin kids he never knew he had.
"Brothers" — Jim Sheridan directs this reversal-of-roles drama about siblings (Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal), one a Marine presumed dead in Afghanistan, the other a black sheep who becomes man of the house for his brother's wife (Natalie Portman).
"Everybody's Fine" — Robert De Niro co-stars with Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell in the story of a widower who sets off to reconnect with his grown kids in this remake of the Italian original from Giuseppe Tornatore.
...tgk trailer dier...best jerr ala Beowulf... |
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yg ni pun tak sabar nak nengok...nmpk mcm best jeee! |
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memang best kot....
watak Jim Carrey akan jadi best kalau dia tak banyak buat 'rubber face' tu {:2_70:} |
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must watch...yea jim carrey!!!!!!! |
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3# J
Ini katun je tapi best sebab Jim suarakan banyak watak.. |
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5# tdpp2006
masih guna expression dia kan?  |
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5# tdpp2006
kartun stail BEOWULF... |
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6# J
Yup, out 16 nov. sooooooooonnnn... |
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sape da tgk cte nih???? aku igt nk tgk mggu nih... |
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dengar kata tak best kalo tk tgk 3d |
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dh tgk..best  |
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dh tgk..best
mykiwi Post at 24-11-2009 15:29 
ye ke best???
harus tgk nih.... |
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ada kelainan x sebab dah banyak tengok citer christmas carol ni termasuk carol christmas kat hallmark huhu |
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aku dah layan cita nieee.....
tapi bg sesapa yg xtau menda krismas karol nie elok la baca sinopsis dulu...
aku mula2 blur gak... cita apa nie...
dah sampai tgh cita baru paham.. hehe
best weh...
ala mcm cita beowulf la...
cantek gak 3d dia....
cita dia bg aku menarik laaa....
kalo angpa xpercaya or xmau selebret krimas nnt tau la padah dia.. waakakakaka....  |
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dah tgk.........best |
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14# akukamudandia btol2 kang mimpi mcm2 lak  |
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3D die mmg btol2 amazing... cantik sgt!! |
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Da tgk hari tu... Hmm, kpd semua yg da biasa ngn citer Christmas Carol nih, cter nih mmg x lari langsung ngn original story dier.. |
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best ekkk.... minggu depan nak try tengok rrr |
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tgk 3d mg cantik..tp jln citer sgt boring...boring |
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Post time 3-11-2009 07:45 PM
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Post time 4-11-2009 12:33 PM
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