&#39;Polar Express&#39; derails in zombie land
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(G). On Christmas Eve, a boy on the cusp of his Santa Claus Crisis takes the fast train to the North Pole. Based on a modern classic, the film boasts far more technology than charm.
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The hit superhero cartoon &quot;The Incredibles&quot; retained its lead at the weekend box office in North America, while the costly Tom Hanks holiday movie &quot;The Polar Express&quot; opened at a distant No.
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An express train crowded with holiday travellers has derailed killing at least 50 and injuring many more
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&quot;Surviving Christmas,&quot; a dark comedy that co-stars James Gandolfini of &quot;The Sopranos,&quot; could not survive the critics&#39; wrath and drew few moviegoers in its opening weekend.
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When the film based on Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s delicate and haunting children&#39;s book &quot;The Polar Express&quot; plays in its own backyard, it has the purity of virgin, new-fallen snow.
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Street View decapitation shocker Since western businesses have already lost an estimated five billion working hours to Google Maps' Street View facility, as employees eschew their duties to scour the US's highways and byways for hot Las Vegas babes and fag-puffing lawyers, it should come as no surprise that it didn't take them long to find the first evidence of the headless zombie menace threatening San Francisco:â¦
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This cinematic season has already had two unique holiday offerings. Ben Affleck&#39;s black comedy Surviving Christmas died at the box office, while The Polar Express has soared with critics but stalled with viewers.
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A groping Santa, a drunken car chase, a bloody punchout. Festivities in Antarctica got a little out of hand this Christmas.
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Britain&#39;s newest visitor attraction, a theme park dedicated to the novelist Charles Dickens, offers a taste of the grim world of Victorian London stalked by his characters like Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield.
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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 $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  $835 million.
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. Pictures'  costly new entrant "The Polar Express" goes up against reigning  champ "The Incredibles" at the weekend box office, but is  unlikely to dislodge the hit superhero cartoon.
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Some seven weeks early, Hollywood got into the Christmas spirit for the premiere of "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the classic children's novel.
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CUMBERLAND -- Technically speaking, the Providence and Worcester Railroad doesnât lead to the North Pole, but passengers on the Blackstone Valley Polar Express may get a similar experience.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily November 8, 2004 - LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles weather cooperated on Sunday as Christmas came to Hollywood Boulevard. It was overcast, and a tad chilly and damp, perfect for the premiere of the winter tale of "The Polar Express." The film&#8217;s virtual star, Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson didn&#8217;t make it onto the snowy white carpet until it was almost time for the screening, but hordes of squealing kids definitely did, as the premiere party happened out of order, taking place before the fantasy film unfolded at Grauman&#8217;s Chinese Theater
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Addison Cochran, 5, gets a hug from Santa as she and more than 270 other Make-A-Wish children take a "Polar Express" ride to the "North Pole" (Soldier Hollow) Wednesday, courtesy of the Marines, KBER 101 and Heber Valley Historic Railroad.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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Director Robert Zemeckis, traveling on "The Polar Express," stopped long enough to pick up a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Zemeckis, who won an Oscar for directing "Forrest Gump," received the 2,268th star Friday.