Disney's A Christmas Carol, the spectacular...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX)
(TSX:IMX) and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures today announced that Disney's
A Christmas Carol, the spectacular Disney Digital 3D(TM) holiday release from
director Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, will open in a record 181
IMAX(R) theatres domestically on November 6, 2009 and 57 IMAX theatres
internationally starting on November 5th, 2009. Disney's A Christmas Carol: An
IMAX 3D Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image
and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R) with proprietary IMAX DMR(R)
(Digital Re-mastering) technology.http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS234201+04-Nov-2009+GNW20091104

Disney's A Christmas Carol Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman |

! Disney's A Christmas Carol is a marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie, and the miracle is that it goes right back to the gilded Victorian spirit of those black-and-white films of yore. From the hypnotic opening shot, which seems to travel through every nook and cranny of London without a cut, Zemeckis signals that he's made a bold technical leap: The faces are now fully expressive, the streets and buildings so real you could touch them. Ebenezer, with his drooping flesh and coldly fearful eyes, is no caricature — Carrey plays him with scolding sharpness and a plummy deep melancholy — and his journey unfolds with a classicism that is only enhanced by Zemeckis' spangly visual flamboyance. He makes the ghost of Marley, for instance, a figure of true terror. After this grisly bit of paranormal activity, we can see that Scrooge's redemption has already begun.

A Christmas Carol, as Dickens wrote it, might almost be about the original case of psychotherapy, with the ghosts as shrinks who reveal to Scrooge the dynamic interior forces that shaped him. Zemeckis stages the familiar episodes briskly, with more jaunty showbiz than we're used to — he uses Carrey and Gary Oldman in multiple roles — yet without sacrificing any emotion. The spirits have a spooky majesty (the Ghost of Christmas Past is a disembodied head of flame), and when Scrooge's home gets turned into a roving hovercraft with an invisible floor that allows him to stare at his life, the sci-fi-ish conceit doesn't distance us. It mirrors the dislocation of a man who is now dreaming with his eyes wide open. Zemeckis does hit one false note, dropping an incongruous ''action'' scene into the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come episode. That's the rare misstep, though, in a Christmas Carol that left me festive with delight, not to mention in dire need of a holiday hankie.

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Nov 4 - Hollywood stars Jim Carrey, Bob Hoskins and Colin Firth turn out for the big switch-on of Christmas lights in central London ahead of the premiere of Disney's 'A Christmas Carol'.

Free shows at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Regent Street and Oxford Circus, helped build up the atmosphere before the big moment of the lights