Amid economic gloom, movies shone at Cannes May 26, 2009
Pitt and Angelina Jolie swept into Cannes for the "Basterds" premiere, and Paris Hilton popped up everywhere, but overall there were fewer A-list stars and fewer headline-grabbing studio stunts _ although Jim Carrey posed on a lawn of fake snow to promote the forthcoming "A Christmas Carol.". The festival also premiered the final performance of Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," which screened to a muted reception outside of the Cannes competition. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Penn changes mind about divorce May 23, 2009
She will soon be seen playing the title role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and opposite Jim Carrey in a computer-animated version of A Christmas Carol. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Gallery: Carrey, Pitt and Tarantino May 22, 2009
Jim Carrey enjoys a sleigh ride at a press conference for "A Christmas Carol". Sit tight, we're getting to the good stuff. (CNN -- Showbiz)
US actor who was the voice of Mickey Mouse dies May 21, 2009
Allwine also voiced Mickey in Mickey's Christmas Carol and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. You just have to love the little guy while you have him, because he won't be yours forever. (BBC News -- Americas)
Wayne Allwine; was actor who voiced Mickey Mouse May 21, 2009
His falsetto can be heard in 1983's "Mickey's Christmas Carol," 1988's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and at Disney theme parks around the world. He won an Emmy Award in 1986 for his sound editing on the NBC series "Amazing Stories.". (Boston Globe)
Infotainment May 20, 2009
Scrooge came to Cannes in a horse-drawn carriage to promote Disneys 3D holiday special A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey and a host of other Hollywood A-listers. Carrey plays the eponymous Ebenezer Scrooge as well as various other ghoulish characters in the movie set for worldwide release ahead. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
It's Christmas in Cannes as Disney previews 'Carol' May 19, 2009
Jim Carrey and Robin Wright Penn play with the "snow" (biodegradable bubbles) Monday in Cannes, France, as the film festival got a peek at Disney's 3-D A Christmas Carol ... Christmas came to the festival courtesy of Disney as Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis arrived on the Croisette in a horse-drawn carriage to show off the first footage from their 3-D digital version of A Christmas Carol, due in theaters Nov. 6. (USA Today -- Life)
Woody Allen, American Apparel Settle Suit For $5M May 19, 2009
Jim Carrey has multiple personalities in his next movie -- a motion-captured version of "A Christmas Carol.". Vanessa Hudgens has left "High School Musical" to make a movie about music -- at a high school. (Click2Houston, TX)
Publicity stunt worth a gander May 16, 2009
Published: Friday, May 15, 2009 3:10 AM CDT Just when you thought Christmas was all over (I know, it s sad), the yuletides are roaring back in the version of a six-car train, to promote Disney s A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey, due in theaters Nov. 6. Mark it on your calendar (if you feel like donning your inner-Christmas Spirit one last time), the nation-touring train rolls into Ogden s Union Station on Tuesday, June 16. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Live from ... May 13, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Spooky Christmas Carol figure ... Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey will be in town next Monday to show off the first clips of their digital performance-capture version of A Christmas Carol, opening in November. (USA Today -- Life)
THEY'RE BACK: Cannes' favorite sons and daughters May 12, 2009
Another Disney digital film is Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, a performance-capture movie like The Polar Express. This one stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and all three ghosts. (USA Today -- Life)
Cannes 09 Preview May 12, 2009
Jim Carrey fans should be in for A Christmas Carol treat. This film isn't playing in competition and isn't even finished yet, but Disney is screening footage from its take on A Christmas Carol, and due to the quality of the talent involved there's no way we are missing this preview. (IGN FilmForce)
All Aboard For 'Disney's A Christmas Carol' Train Tour May 9, 2009
May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney is pulling out all the whistle stops and taking its show on the road with a spectacular immersive and interactive 40-city train tour including a 3D sneak peek of film footage from the upcoming movie "Disney's A Christmas Carol," it was announced today (05/08/09) by Dick Cook, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios ... Starring Jim Carrey and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, "Disney's A Christmas Carol" opens in theatres November 6 in Disney... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Merry Gentleman' never really goes out on limb May 8, 2009
The Merry Gentleman movie review - The Merry Gentleman showtimes - The Boston Globe - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
Film review: Bad screenplay kills 'Ghost of Girlfriends Past' May 8, 2009
Come on, did audiences need a modernized version of A Christmas Carol updated to focus on a womanizer ... Just like the classic Christmas Carol, Mead will see the error of his ways. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Disney stokes publicity engine with 'Christmas Carol' train May 8, 2009
Disney stokes publicity engine with 'Christmas Carol' train - USATODAY.com ... The Christmas Carol train tour ... Disney stokes publicity engine with 'Christmas Carol' train. (USA Today -- Life)
Wolverine jumps into top spot May 5, 2009
The biggest loser in the U.S. was Matthew McConaughey whose rom com take on A Christmas Carol, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, clearly scared the Dickens out of the audience. McConaughey's box office pull has taken a big hit from his spate of recent turkeys and despite opening in second, the actual gross won't have any studios lining up to make his next one. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The McConaughey Mystery: King of Hunks May 3, 2009
In this update of A Christmas Carol (drably directed by Mean Girls' Mark Waters, written by the guys who did last winter's insufferable holiday comedy Four Christmases), McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a glamour photographer with an eye for philandering. After breaking up with three girls "in bulk," over a video conference call, he goes to his brother's wedding weekend, re-wounding his old inamorata (Jennifer Garner) while causing about as much domestic havoc as Anne Hathaway did in Rachel... (Time.com)
'Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past': Payback, By Kurt Loder May 3, 2009
aspires to nothing beyond its flat premise it's "A Christmas Carol" with Scrooge replaced by a clueless womanizer in need of comeuppance. But the picture has some laughs, and a couple of punchy comic performances, and rom-com fans, so often under-served, could do worse. (VHI.com -- Music News)
UW-L announces theater lineup May 3, 2009
The Broadway musical Into the Woods and A Christmas Carol will headline the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of Theatre Arts 2009-10 Toland season ... The Christmas holiday offering will be A Christmas Carol, adapted by Barbara Field for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis ... A Christmas Carol, directed by Mary Leonard, Dec. 4-6, 10-13. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
British poet receives top royal honor May 2, 2009
The third man to hold the post, Nahum Tate, is today best known for writing the Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night.". Tennyson wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" while in the role. (CNN -- World)
Review: Supporting roles give McConaughey a boost May 1, 2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is the best of the bunch, a romantic Christmas Carol, with McConaughey starring as a won t-commit heel of a fashion photographer who goes through supermodels the way banks go through stimulus money. He s so oversexed and over-booked that he has to breakup in bulk three women dumped by conference call. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Sean Penn Separates From Robin Wright May 1, 2009
Robin Wright Penn has starred in such films "The Princess Bride," "Forrest Gump," "Beowulf" and most recently, filmed an introduction to the documentary, "Haze." She currently co-stars in the drama "State of Play" and will next star in a motion-captured version of "A Christmas Carol.". Previous Stories. (Click2Houston, TX)
In 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,' womanizing is spirited, but empty May 1, 2009
The movie's a "Christmas Carol" revamp with the star playing a cosmic stud Scrooge who hates marriage rather than the holidays and who views love as "magical comfort food for the weak and uneducated." Only a very rude critic might apply such a description to the movie itself. McConaughey is Connor Mead, a celebrated Manhattan photographer who appears to do everything in triplicate: He shoots three magazine covers at once and breaks up with three girlfriends in a single video conference call. (Boston Globe)
'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' May 1, 2009
The dopey concept here takes Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and twists it around in lame fashion. Instead of miserly Scrooge getting visits from three ghosts, we get a horny photographer named Connor who learns the error of his ways from three apparitions on the eve of his kid brother's wedding. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Top Entertainment Stories Capsule reviews: ‘Wolverine' and other films May 1, 2009
You've also seen Ghosts of Girlfriends Past before, in countless variations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. But you won't see Dickens credited anywhere here, even though the plot finds McConaughey, as playboy photographer Connor Mead, reluctantly revisiting the myriad women he's wronged with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present and future as his guides. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Welk gives San Diego-born '60s-themed musical 'Suds' another spin Apr 30, 2009
Since then, the longtime friends have worked together many times, including on the Rep's "Christmas Carol" and in the Old Globe's "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" musical (they play Mama and Papa Who). "It hasn't been by design that we've been cast together so often," he said with a laugh. (North County Times)
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Marcantel s prior productions include A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors and Oklahoma, but this is her first major role. I was so excited, she said. (New Iberia, LA)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is dead on arrival Apr 29, 2009
And what, exactly, did Charles Dickens immortal A Christmas Carol do to deserve such horrible treatment on the big screen of late. Last years reactionary wank-fest An American Carol was painful enough, but did we really need Scrooge refigured as a fashion-photographer cocksman with intimacy issues. (MSNBC -- Movies)
The distracting ever-present Dickens Apr 17, 2009
Can you wait until Christmas, the holiday that Dickens is said to have invented - or at least over-sentimentalized - in his story "A Christmas Carol". Like Wal-Mart, Disney starts Christmas early, so Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and Gary Oldman as Bob Cratchit will be showing up in the multiplexes on Nov. 9. (Boston Globe)
North Shore Music Theatre announces plan to move forward Apr 16, 2009
But the nonprofit Beverly theater said it must still raise $2 million by July in order to put on six musicals and its holiday production of "A Christmas Carol.". Last December, the company, founded in 1955 and the largest nonprofit theater in New England, announced it had reached a crisis point: It would need to raise $4 million by the spring in order to survive. (Boston Globe)
Playhouse Dispute May Be Near Resolution Apr 15, 2009
Both worked at the theater for more than 20 years, helping direct some of the biggest productions, including "A Christmas Carol.". Other actors said more members of the theater were planning to pull out of other shows in protest. (7 KETV Omaha)
Knightscove Media Corp Executes an LOI to Acquire Ellis Entertainment Corp Including 600 Title Catalogue Apr 14, 2009
Morningstar's current library consists of approx 1,200 DVD titles including the original "A Christmas Carol" starring Alistair Sim, "Swiss Family Robinson" and BBC's "Chronicles of Narnia". Morningstar has launched its operations into the US market focusing heavily in family friendly content, which is the exclusive focus of the Ellis Library. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Fox wants theaters to foot the bill for 3D glasses Apr 13, 2009
"An interesting test," a movie industry analyst says of Fox's desire to have theaters pay for 3D glasses at screenings of the next "Ice Age" sequel. Hollywood's making big investments in 3D films. (USA Today -- Tech)
Uplifting, fun shows this season at MCT Apr 5, 2009
Then, in December, the company will produce a version of A Christmas Carol, with music written by Alan Menken ... It's a very new approach and it's not the same Christmas Carol' you've always known, said McGill. (Missoulian, MT)
Constantine Jameson, 88, classics teacher at Boston Latin Apr 4, 2009
"But the classroom didn't end his film career.In the 1950s, he played a character named Mr. Fistuche on a children's show on WBZ-TV, aired locally. Contompasis, who remembered watching the show when he was Mr. Jameson's pupil, said the techniques Mr. Jameson used in the classroom to catch a child's attention were the same as the ones he employed on the air.He also appeared in commercials. In the early 1970s, he did campaign commercials on the air for Larry DiCara, who was running for a seat on... (Boston Globe)
BACKSTAGE: Benefit concert planned for missing teen Apr 2, 2009
For the third year in a row, Jacqueline Goldfinger's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" will be presented (as a non-season extra) Dec. 9-27. "Glorious," a comedy by Peter Quilter, subtitled "The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World," will have its San Diego premiere on Jan. 13, 2010. (North County Times)
Disney to reissue Toy Story, Beast in 3-D Apr 1, 2009
The Disney 3-D slate includes Pixar Animations Up in May, Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carreys adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol this November, Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, and a follow-up to the 1980s sci-fi adventure Tron. . (MSNBC -- News)
Coming from a screen near you Mar 30, 2009
Also in the 3D schedule is Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, which has been filmed in 3D motion capture, and will the first two instalments of the franchise The Adventures of Tintin, to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. One of the biggest films of the year is expected to be James "Titanic" Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar, a $300 million drama due for release in December and starring Australia's Sam Worthington. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
ACT unveils season of 'essential' theater Mar 27, 2009
The West Coast premiere of Mamet's broad satire about an inept, corrupt president, "November," runs through its titular month, followed by the annual non-subscription holiday offering of "A Christmas Carol." "Phdre," in a new adaptation by Timberlake Wertenbaker, with Stratford veteran Seana McKenna in the title role, opens in January. "Stratford has the most amazing acting company I think I've ever seen," says Perloff, who will stage the production there first this summer. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Edmonton theatre plans extensive season Mar 27, 2009
Also on the bill, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and Shakespeare's As You Like It, as well as family fare like Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book and, returning for its tenth season, Tom Wood's adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Recommend this article. (Globe and Mail)
Edmonton's Citadel Theatre Announce... Mar 26, 2009
This season boasts The Jungle Book (October 17 to November 1, 2009), A Christmas Carol (November 27 to December 23, 2009), and a return of Disney s Beauty and the Beast (May 1 to 30, 2010. . (Suite101.com)
Nyuk, nyuk! Sean Penn joins Three Stooges Mar 26, 2009
Carrey, who was last seen on the big screen in Yes Man, has several films awaiting release, including the dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris and Disneys A Christmas Carol. . (MSNBC -- News)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene Mar 26, 2009
Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" opens in October, followed by the company's annual holiday version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in December. In between, in November, Center Rep welcomes back the Reduced Shakespeare Company in "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" in the 800-seat Hoffman Theater. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bullock, McConaughey ready to create sparks Mar 25, 2009
Its basically the rom-com version of A Christmas Carol, but Garner can be awfully appealing in the right romantic comedy. Lets just hope its more 13 Going on 30 than Catch and Release. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Vidoes vanish in clash between YouTube and Warner Music Mar 24, 2009
Weeks later, she received an e-mail message from the video-sharing Web site: Her video was being removed as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group, which owns the copyright to the Christmas carol. Hers is not an isolated case. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Time travel has been a constant on TV series Mar 22, 2009
Sometimes, time travel on TV symbolizes an interior journey of personal transformation, as it did in "A Christmas Carol." The hero has to go backward, in order to go forward. But often TV writers fling characters through time like skipping rocks to broaden the canvas for their sci-fi adventure stories. (Boston Globe)
A History of ACT commissions Mar 22, 2009
"War Music" is the latest entry in a line that stretches back to 1976 with Dennis Powers and Laird Williamson's commissioned adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" - which became ACT's longtime holiday treat until it was replaced by Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh's adaptation in 2005 - and forward at least to Perloff and Val Caniparolli's "The Tosca Project," planned to premiere in the 2009-10 season. Other notable big ACT projects include. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A-L Essential 1700s and 1800s Briti... Mar 22, 2009
Dickens was himself a campaigner for social reform, which is exhibited through some of his best known works such as The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1837-1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849-1850), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). E George Eliot. (Suite101.com)
Romantic melodrama opens Granite Theatre season Mar 14, 2009
Brian Olsen, last seen in A Christmas Carol, plays Huey, the scrambled romantic male, and John Cillino is his best friend, Aldo. Rochelle Weinrauch, who made a stunning debut at the Granite as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, plays Teresa, the girlfriend who may or may not succeed in winning Huey s heart, and Mary Sue Chiaradio portrays their wise old friend, May. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Goode troupe looks at the world through puppetry, dance Mar 13, 2009
The Dickens holiday classic "A Christmas Carol" will run from Nov. 20-Dec. 27. (Boston Globe)
A 3D film revolution, but not in homes: director Mar 5, 2009
The number of 3D-ready screens is set to increase dramatically this year with the release of other movies including Avatar from James Cameron, Toy Story 3, Up, G-Force, A Christmas Carol, Planet 51, Ice Age 3, My Bloody Valentine and Coraline. 3D films have been around for decades but the technology has moved far beyond the wonky green and red lens glasses of the 1970s. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Top talent stars in 3D films Feb 27, 2009
- "Monsters vs. Aliens (March 27) DreamWorks' computer-animated release earned a big Super Bowl push with a 3D commercial. Reese Witherspoon, Keifer Sutherland, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Stephen Colbert (as the President) provide voices. The Army houses five bizarre monsters to keep them away from the public but decides to deploy them when aliens attack. - "Up" (May 29) Like "Wall-E," Pixar raises the ante with "Up," telling a poignant story with a point. Edward Asner voices Carl, a crotchety,... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Irish playwright's work is a good fit for Tir Na theater Feb 27, 2009
And New Rep will maintain its holiday traditions with Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and David Sedaris's "The Santaland Diaries". Information: 617-923-8487. (Boston Globe)
Wood reunion promises a family drama Feb 24, 2009
" Also, check out the 1968 film of the play with Olivia Hussey as Juliet. A JULIET LINE YOU MIGHT REMEMBER: What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. More Home Performance dates and ticket information were not available.Everyone in the production is working free. It will be a fundraiser to finance a trip to France this November for the cast of "A... (News & Observer)
BATV schedule Feb 21, 2009
Noon: A Christmas Carol ... 5 p.m.: A Christmas Carol ... 8 p.m.: A Christmas Carol. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Letter: Towed person urges the disabled to boycott Las Casa de Pedro Feb 21, 2009
We were at the New Rep to see their fantastic version of A Christmas Carol. I parked in what I thought was a handicapped parking spot, an area of four parking spots marked reserved with a handicapped sign displayed at the beginning of the spots. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
Stage Coach gives awards Feb 19, 2009
Last year, Wright was seen on stage in Stage Coach productions of ;Over the River and Through the Woods; and played Ebenezer Scrooge in ;A Christmas Carol. . (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Krakowski lives her dream Feb 17, 2009
" She channeled her inner rock star as she talked about growing up as a community theater baby. Q When we interviewed your co-star Jack McBrayer last year, he said to get more people to watch "30 Rock" he wanted to create a scandal and it would involve costumes and phone calls to authority. Do you have any ideas? A I would like to start a sex scandal. It's been a slow build, but this year we've had our largest audience, and the audiences have been consistently getting larger. Maybe by season 5... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Big hearts in Beverly give NSMT a pulse Feb 11, 2009
During that time, the trustees and theater management will craft a money-saving scaled-down season, featuring six shows, but with shorter runs, an autumn close and a reopening for A Christmas Carol and additional production cost-saving initiatives. Fellows said any musical productions would still include a live orchestra but that the theater might consider mixing in non-musical theater into the show mix if it makes artistic sense. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Circling the Square, Feb. 5 Feb 8, 2009
The evening was hosted by David Coffee, whom many remember as the proverbial Scrooge of Christmas Carol even though he s been in many NSMT productions, and George Dvorsky, longtime Ghost of Christmas Present and swashbuckling lead in plays like Kiss Me Kate. . (Danvers Herald, MA)
ACT: The Long Run Feb 7, 2009
" -- Ed Hastings (Asian American Theater Workshop became the Asian American Theater Company) "Bill wanted to do 'A Christmas Carol,' and he approached Dennis Powers and me. We were pretty convinced that it would be great if it were a script that was generated from inside ACT, as opposed to going afield and selecting one by committee. (San Francisco Chronicle)
