Moviegoers Stingy with Scrooge (Box Office Mojo)

It was a miserly start to the Holiday movie season as the high profile movie positioned to bring the most cheer, A Christmas Carol (2009), stumbled a bit out of the gate. Overall weekend business was off 14 percent from the same timeframe last year, when Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa landed, and was on the low end for early November. Haunting approximately 6,500 screens at 3,683 sites, A Christmas ...