Snowstorms on the US east coast and Christmas Eve falling on Friday - one of the main evenings for movie-going in North America - did not help box office performance, analysts say.

BBC: Little Fockers tops US holiday box office chart

Also Doodle Jump is popular with kids who are the main demographic for a movie like Hop.

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Dame Judi Dench has expressed her disappointment that Bond movie Skyfall failed to receive nominations in the main categories at the Academy Awards.

BBC: Dame Judi Dench: Skyfall Oscar omission 'a pity'

Some workbench tables, paintings, and brightly colored farm implements are local, but the antler chandelier in the main lounge is pure American West, the result of a movie star divorce garage sale: It comes from Demi Moore and Bruce Willis' former home in Sun Valley.

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Who would think that someone could make a movie in today's day and age where the main characters leave their clothes on during the love scene?

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Without these back stories, and with the movie weighted down by the earnest but wooden performances of main characters Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) and Hank Rearden (Grant Bowler), it's going to be hard to get general audiences engaged.

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But as critical and as angry as many religious leaders are about The Da Vinci Code, their main response has not been to try to stop Christians from reading the book or seeing the movie, but to meet it head on.

NPR: Religious Groups Respond to 'Da Vinci' Movie Release