Big-Budget 'Polar Express' Draws Mixed Reviews
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Warner Bros.' big-budget movie for children, "The Polar Express," pulled into theaters on Wednesday with a load of mixed reviews, ranging from praise for an instant holiday classic to jeers for a huge disappointment.
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Sure, there's the slick technology and stunning visuals, but the animated Polar Express doesn't do the book any favors. By Jason Silverman.
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MOUNT WASHINGTON, NH -- The magical story of the Polar Express is coming to life on the big screen this week, but there&#39;s a place in New Hampshire where visitors can experience the story firsthand.
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November 09, 2004 - I first viewed footage from The Polar Express a few months ago at a special Warner Brothers event. There, we viewed a little more than a half hour of the film, including a behind the scenes
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A wide-eyed boy in a cozy blue robe and proper yellow pajamas has his hope and faith tested in the book The Polar Express. But Chris Van Allsburg, who wrote the childrenâs classic, insists he did not base it on himself.
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With The Polar Express chugging into movie theaters and a fictional North Pole, we're finding out that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Photo Gallery
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Many films start out as award-winning books. But they arenât usually picture books. Emperor of the north: An engineer (Michael Jeter) takes a wild ride in âThe Polar Express.
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After a slow start out of the station, "The Polar Express" just keeps chugging along. Taking in nearly &#36;10 million over the weekend, the holiday tale lifted its domestic total to &#36;110 million with plenty of steam left for Christmas and New Year's.
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Even at a hefty cost of around &#36;165 million to make "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis thinks an innovative new animation technique he used may have saved the Warner Bros. studio and the film's producers about &#36;835 million.
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As the first star-driven film to cross completely over to the digital domain, "The Polar Express" might change the way movies are made and seen.
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A dancing penguin was king of the Thanksgiving birds among movie-goers. The animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" remained the No. 1 movie with $37.9 million in ticket sales from Friday to Sunday, while the James Bond adventure "Casino Royale" stayed in second place with $31 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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The company ups its 2004 guidance after the record-breaking success of Polar Express.
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Think of "Arctic Tale" as a mash-up between "March of the Penguins" and "An Inconvenient Truth" &#151; apropos, since it's being marketed at Starbucks like some innocuous folk-rock music &#151; except unlike both of those movies, it isn't even trying to be a pure documentary.
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The animated children&#39;s holiday film &quot;The Polar Express&quot; is a creepy movie anyway, and the creepiest part is the way it depicts the North Pole.
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Tom Hanks' holiday movie "The Polar  Express" has set an opening weekend record for a Hollywood film  released in Imax Corp.'s giant-screen format, the company's  co-chief executive said on Monday.
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The movie version of the popular children&#39;s book, The Polar Express, steamed into theaters earlier this month, and kids are once again becoming entranced by the magic of the Arctic.
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Visakha Express is quite a letdown as it finally peters down to be a case of personal vendetta. The suspense is not enough to keep the audience engrossed and the fairly decent performances by Allari Naresh and Rajeev Kanakala may not be of much help in making the film run.