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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The holiday season starts early this weekend, as Disney opens director Robert Zemeckis' 3D animated feature "A Christmas Carol."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Isla Fisher is eyeing "Desperados," a feature comedy described as a female-oriented "Hangover."

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Depicting an awkward romance between two young misfits set in the backdrop of a traveling carnival, "Splinterheads" mainly comes across as a low-rent version of "Adventureland." Although Brant Sersen's comedy, which opened Friday (November 6), has amusing moments, they come too far between to elevate the film above the standard indie level of quirkiness for its own sake.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ashley Greene is going from vampires to ghosts.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Dan Aykroyd and Anna Faris are in negotiations to star in "Yogi Bear," a live-action/animated feature take on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- British rocker Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame will team with Oscar winner A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire") to write the score for "Street Dancing," an against-all-odds movie set in the world of dance competitions held in Singapore and New York.

BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) - Rupert Murdoch's wife is among the producers of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," an English-language Chinese drama starring Zhang Ziyi, perhaps the country's most exportable actress.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker are in negotiations to join Bruce Willis in the thriller "Red."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Call it higher fidelity.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Jackson, the elderly father of late pop star Michael Jackson, on Friday filed a court petition seeking an allowance from the singer's estate, saying his son had supported him for many years.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sundance Film Festival organizers on Wednesday unveiled plans for a one-night expansion of January's event to theaters in eight U.S. cities, hoping to encourage a discussion about the role art and cinema play in people's lives.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Hal Holbrook continues his late-career renaissance, begun so vividly with his Oscar-nominated turn in "Into the Wild," with this elegiac drama about an octogenarian who still has a lot of fight left in him.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) He may not be a household name in the United States, but Michael Fassbender is fast becoming one of the hottest young stars in Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures is taking on some Risk, acquiring the film rights to the classic Hasbro board game, in which players vie for world domination.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - French filmmaker Pierre Morel, who most recently directed the $224 million worldwide hit "Taken," is moving on to another thriller.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Zach Galifianakis has had a great fall.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A hijacking nearly brought "Amelia" crashing to the ground.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Five years after he made Earth freeze over in "The Day After Tomorrow," director Roland Emmerich is wreaking more havoc, this time with "2012."