&#39;Fockers&#39;: Christmas Day record
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LOS ANGELES - Millions of Americans went shopping for comedy last weekend, giving the star-studded &quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; the record for the best single Christmas Day box office take.
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Hollywood's studios are expected to  rake in a possibly record $9.4 billion at domestic box offices  this year, but the lack of a Christmas season smash like last  year's final "Lord of the Rings" film will crimp overall ticket  sales.
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"Meet The Fockers," the much-hyped sequel to the successful 2000 film "Meet The Parents" starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, takes the top spot over the holiday weekend, raking in $44.7 million. It beat the previous holiday record held by the 2002...
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Richard Jefferson&#39;s Christmas wasn&#39;t spoiled just because he found out what Santa was going to bring him a week early. He has not stopped thinking about his present since last week.
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"Meet the Fockers" was the most popular movie in North America for a second weekend, and has now earned almost as much as its 2000 predecessor, "Meet the Parents," did in its entire run, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
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Robert Zemeckis&#39; opulent big-screen rendition of Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s holiday best seller The Polar Express is so visually dazzling that it&#39;s the very definition of Christmas eye candy - and that&#39;s the problem.
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Analysts have offered their latest judgment of the Christmas shopping season: good, but not great, although online sales set records.
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As usual, Christmas Eve was dead at the box office and Christmas Day was extremely busy. With Christmas landing on Saturday this year, the box office took another hit adding to the woes of not having a Lord of the Rings film in the mix.
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Warner Bros. Pictures&#39; The Polar Express, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, set an opening weekend record for a Hollywood film released in IMAX, the company&#39;s co-chief executive Brad Wechsler said.
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As we come up to Christmas, while this weekend is technically not the last box office weekend of the year, no new releases are planned for Christmas Eve, a cinematic graveyard, so this is the last truly important debut.
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Yes, he's a megastar whose personal life fills the gossip pages. But can Ben Affleck still fill theaters? Not judging by his new release, Surviving Christmas, which earned only &#36;4.4 million its opening weekend, following less-than-stellar box office for Gigli and Jersey Girl.
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s the year stumbles toward its conclusion and critics begin penning their best-and-worst compendiums, here&#39;s a holiday contender fit for the all-time Naughty List.
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&quot;Meet the Fockers,&quot; said the title, and that&#39;s exactly what American movie fans went out and did this weekend. A slapstick sequel to the slapstick hit &quot;Meet the Parents,&quot; the &quot;Fockers&quot; yukked
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Here are some of the toys expected to be top sellers this Christmas. The list is based on Toy Wishes&#39; editorial board&#39;s review of thousands of toys and interviews with parents, children and retailers.
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Business & money: UK Households are expected to splash out record breaking Â£4.25bn in supermarkets on festive food
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After having been released for only 12 days, "Meet the Fockers" has made its place on the list of the highest-grossing films of 2004. It has beat the top New Year's Eve box office gross (previously held by "Castaway") and the top New Year's Day box off...
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Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus took part in the English city of Liverpool's annual &quot;Santa Dash&quot;, setting a new world record in the process, organisers of the event said.