Carrey’s Carol Tops US Box Office

Disney’s animated version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has topped the North American box office chart in its first weekend on release.

However, its $31m (£18.5m) haul was less than some had expected it to make in cinemas in the US and Canada.

According to Disney, nearly three-quarters of A Christmas Carol’s sales came from cinemas showing it in 3D.

Jim Carrey plays the miserly Scrooge in the film, which uses a hi-tech form of animation called motion capture.
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