'Christmases' vs. 'Holidays': The Winter Family Comedy War Looms
Cinematical — ... In the other corner, we have Four Christmases, in which Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon find themselves shuffling off to visit each of their parents on X-Mas Day. If this (embed-less) ...

Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon's Four Christmases Trailer
FirstShowing.net — ... You can also watch the Four Christmases trailer in High Definition on Yahoo Four Christmases is directed by indie filmmaker Seth Gordon, of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters from last year. The story was written by first-timers Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson and the screenplay itself was completed by Allen and Wilson as well as Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. New Line Cinema will debut Four Christmases in theaters everywhere on November 26th - ...

"Four Christmases" Preview & Trailer
Film Gecko — ... The trailer for Four Christmases is now available and posted below for your viewing enjoyment. I just hope it’s not another couples-fighting-badly flick a la ...

NOVEMBER 2008 MOVIE PREVIEW
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... , Disney's second dog-based film in two months. This one is animated, in 3-D, and features John Travolta's voice. 26.11.2008 This Thanksgiving weekend has something for just about every type of family out there. Which one is yours? -For the family that indiscriminately loves holiday movies, even when their central concept is vaugely depressing (a married couple that's been lying to their four divorced parents is found out and forced to visit), Four Christmases ! -For the family where the dad makes all of the decisions for everybody, ...

Four Christmases
The Reviewer — Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 82 Minutes Year: 2008 Nudity: None One Sentence: I will give up all my beliefs in just 1 day.  I usually don't mind the Holiday Family comedy movie.  The one that ends all happy and about family and everything is all wrapped up in a nice little bow.  Family is the best thing in the world, they solve all things, and even though we are all different we get along and make the best of it.  The movie ends with a slow pan at a Christmas Tree and everyone is ...

Film Fan Fridays for Friday November 21, 2008
Movie Moxie — ... Strictly Ballroom) Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown Australia/USA Official Film Site (autoplays trailer), IMDb Page, Trailer Trailer site unseen - spoiler sensitive beware! Four Christmases Dir: Seth Gordon (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen USA/Germany Official Film Site(autoplays trailer), IMDb Page, Trailer Trailer is spoiler free Milk Dir: Gus Van ...

Stay Away From Her, You Bitch
my new plaid pants — ... I only found out yesterday that Olive Snook aka Kristin Chenoweth is in Reese's latest cinematic effrontery Four Christmases, and it made me a little sad. ...

Review: Four Christmases
Cinematical — ... Mere coincidence, you might ask, despite the fact that New Line is owned by Warner Brothers, not to mention the shared initials of both the titles and the actresses playing the love interests? Perhaps, but happenstance loses my vote when the best one can say for Four Christmases is that it's a marginally better holiday romp than the likes of Fred Claus. ...

The Latest in Theaters: From Oz to San Francisco
Movie Dearest — ... Four Christmases: The unlikely coupling of Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn find their holiday plans changed when they are forced to visit their relatives -- all four households of them. ...

Fearless Forecast - Reese and Vince vs. The Vampires
Get The Big Picture — ... Quantum of Solace can do pretty well because it's the sort of movie grown-ups can and will see with their dads. That group of dads is not the opening weekend crowd and they may have known they were going to see the hero of their youth once the holiday rolled around and family was coming into town. For a third weekend, Quantum of Solace will be very competitive. That leaves the major new releases, and there are three of those - Four Christmases, Transporter 3, and Australia. ...

Film Fan Fridays for Friday November 28, 2008
Movie Moxie — ... Strictly Ballroom) Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown Australia/USA Official Film Site (autoplays trailer), IMDb Page, Trailer Trailer site unseen - spoiler sensitive beware! Four Christmases Dir: Seth Gordon (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen USA/Germany Official Film Site(autoplays trailer), IMDb Page, Trailer Trailer is spoiler free Milk Dir: Gus Van ...

Box Office - 'Four Christmases' Heads Toward Weekend Number One
Get The Big Picture — Thanksgiving has been profitable for Christmases. The new comedy Four Christmases, starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, has done tremendous business since its release on Wednesday, earning $28 million over the three-day period beginning Wednesday, with a cool $13 million of that coming on Friday, according to ...

Box Office - 46 Million 'Christmases'
Get The Big Picture — Keep in mind that these are five-day totals we're talking about, but Four Christmases still did better than expected, which based on the reviews of the movie means people were just in the mood to laugh at a loud heavyset guy over Thanksgiving. In some families, that's a holiday tradition. ...

LIES, BROKEN HOMES, AND UNSPOKEN HATREDS... MUST BE A CHRISTMAS COMEDY!
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... Some movies could be very good, except for a single flaw that dooms the whole production to failure. Four Christmases isn't one of them, but it's a very close cousin: though it could never, in its current state, be a very good film, there's an obviously good film lying just under the surface, always threatening to erupt but only coming out in brief flashes. This first became obvious to me in the scene where we meet our protagonists: Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon), a very loving unmarried couple, are taking dancing lessons, and radiating their obvious ...

Weekend Wrap Up: We’re in the Holiday Mood
Intermission at Work — ... 1 Four Christmases (2008) $31.1M $46.1M 2 Bolt (2008) $26.6M $66.8M 3 ...

This Week on Australian Screens
Stale Popcorn — Cinema Releases for the Week 04/12/08 Animals in Love - A French documentary that, basically, is all about animals fornicating. Four Holidays - In case you missed it, this Reese Witherspoon/Vince Vaughn Christmas "comedy" is going by a completely different marketing plan with a new name and altered advertising. Strange, but true. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - I am usually a sucker for a high school movie involving either graduation or "The Prom" (or any other big high school dance, ...

Signatures: Sissy Spacek
Film Experience Blog — ... Sissy Spacek is the rarest of Hollywood starlets. Nowadays she contently weaves her wonder into tiny, thankless roles, and so rarely glams up the red carpet or graces the tabloid page. She makes it almost easy to forget her certifiable A-list rank, even as we watch her dazzle and disappear in films like the upcoming Four Christmases. But never turn your back on her; Sissy's always been one for the third act stunner. ...

Fearless Forecast - 'Four Christmases,' Round Two
Get The Big Picture — ... Four Christmases bested projections last week, and I expect the good times to keep rolling for Reese and Vince. Twilight will still be a strong player, though it has lost significant steam. ...

Box Office - 'Australia,' 'Punisher' Becoming Holiday Bombs
Get The Big Picture — The big story at the box office right now isn't what's on top, but rather what's stinking up the joint. Four Christmases will win its second straight weekend and ...

Box Office - Tryptophan Causes 50% Drop in Ticket Sales
Get The Big Picture — ... an eighth-place debut. Ouch. The rest of the top ten, therefore, looks suspiciously like it did the previous weekend, only with smaller numbers. For example, the entire top ten only generated $73 million from Friday to Sunday, and just two weeks ago, Twilight did just under $70 million all on its own. It looks like some studio somewhere missed a golden opportunity to open big this weekend. Four Christmases repeated as the top film in the land, with Twilight and ...

Weekend Wrap Up: The Holidays Take their Toll
Intermission at Work — ... 1 Four Christmases (2008) $16.8M $69.4M 2 Twilight (2008/I) $13M $138M 3 ...

Fearless Forecast - The Weekend the 'Earth Stood Still'
Get The Big Picture — ... Frost/Nixon, and Gran Torino start building a little army one or two cities at a time. They won't finish near the top five, but their pre screen averages will be interesting to watch; last week, Frost/Nixon made $60,000 per screen, more than three times what any other movie could muster. The Top Five: 1 - The Day the Earth Stood Still ($46 million) 2 - Four Christmases ($11 million) 3 - Twilight ...

Box Office - 'Earth Stood Still' Opens with $12 Million
Get The Big Picture — ... But with a shaky economy, you have to wonder if the blockbusters that don't curry favor with critics have a harder time. I felt it would open quickly and decline early, but I overestimated its value on Friday by about $4 or $5 million. I had a pair of 17s followed by a 12 to add up to $46 million; if it follows the percentages based on the Friday total, it will get to about $32 million. The rest of the box office is not too bountiful. Four Christmases, Twilight, Bolt, and ...

Box Office - 'Earth Stood Still' is Number One, But...
Get The Big Picture — ... that is thanking its lucky stars that The Happening made a little bit of money this summer and can call What Happens in Vegas its crown jewel this year, Fox needed a lot more out of it. The Day the Earth Stood Still was easily the top movie in theaters, but it fell well below projections for its opening weekend, and doesn't resemble a movie that will be a strong contender for very long. Speaking of strong contenders, Four Christmases, Bolt, and Twilight ...

Reel Thoughts: Re-Gifting
Movie Dearest — ... Remember that Will & Grace episode where they had to go to multiple Thanksgiving holidays? Well, someone went and regurgitated it as the new Vince Vaughn/ Reese Witherspoon vehicle Four Christmases, and it’s not as awful as you might fear. Given the retread plot, it’s up to the amazing cast of actors to save Four Christmases from the return counter. ...

Weekend Wrap Up: The Box Office Stood Still… Almost
Intermission at Work — ... 1 The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) $30.5M $30.5M 2 Four Christmases (2008) $13.1M $87.8M 3 ...

Box Office - No to 'Yes,' 'Seven Pounds' Weighed Down
Get The Big Picture — ... Next week, the box office landscape will be entirely different, with five new wide releases and a number of expansions, so it will probably take on an even more Oscar-friendly look. The Top Five: 1 - Yes Man ($18.1 million) 2 - Seven Pounds ($16 million) 3 - The Tale of Despereaux ($10.5 million) 4 - The Day the Earth Stood Still ($10.1 million) 5 - Four Christmases ($7.7 million)

BETTER TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... a particular hatred of Connor's manslut ways. Jenny's aprobation isn't enough to bother Connor; what is , is the appearance of his dead uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), informing him that over the course of the night before the ceremony, he will be visited by three spirits: the Ghost of Girlfriends Past, the Ghost of Girlfriends Present, and the Ghost of Girlfriends Yet to Come. To Connor's credit, and the writers' (Jon Lucas & Scott Moore, whose last assault on romantic decency was Four Christmases ), this lift from Dickens's A Christmas Carol is meant to be hackneyed, and ...

MEN TO BOYS
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... , but that film was hardly great in the ways that would make you think to yourself, "This Phillips kid, he's one to keep an eye on", while the writing team of Jon Lucas & Scott Moore have previously given the world deathless works like Four Christmases and this summer's ...

DISNEY ANIMATION: TALE AS OLD AS TIME
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... heteronormative world. The fact of the matter is, that despite the singing and dancing houseware, and despite the fact that I still remember with great clarity how much I was jazzed by this film when I first saw it at the tottery old age of nine (incidentally, it is to this film that I trace my lifelong love of seeing movies at night late in the year, with a fresh snowfall waiting outside the theater; they are always more rife with promise to me, even when they are things like Four Christmases ), I believe that Beauty and the Beast is not fundamentally a film for children - ...

This Week on Australian Screens
Stale Popcorn — ... of the famous kids book finally comes to screens after worries that it wouldn't even be released! Zombieland - After Adventureland flopped big time, Jesse Eisenberg visits another amusement park altogether. Also stars Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. DVD Releases for the Week 03/12/09 Chéri - Michelle Pfeiffer's "comeback" after her previous actual comeback. Directed by Stephen Frears. Four Holidays - They change the name from Four Christmases to Four ...