Warner Bros. PicturesThere aren't many movies gunning for awards consideration that haven't been screened yet, but the most prominent is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," the Stephen Daldry-directed drama that stars Tom Hanks and is based on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. There's no concern that the movie will miss its December 25 release date, but today we learned that it won't be ready to screen in time for two major awards groups to see it: the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. That shouldn't impact its Oscar chances, but you never know.

Last week, we wrote about our love for the original "Titanic" trailer, a post that was inspired by the release of a spiffy new trailer for the "Titanic" 3D re-release. Today Disney unveiled their trailer for "Beauty and the Beast 3D," so it made us curious to hunt down the film's old trailer from its initial 1991 release. You can see it above -- it's nothing like the way they're selling the movie now.

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A long time ago, I interned for a company that very much wanted to make a TV Christmas movie. This meant that we were sent dozens of Christmas-themed scripts, most of them involving some sort of wacky riff on the Santa Claus mythology. ("Santa's now a crime-fighter!" "Santa's now a baby!" "Santa's now a woman!") I had to read a lot of these, and most of them were so bad that I quickly came to hate any story involving the jolly fat guy with the white beard.

I bring all this up to say that while most reviews have been pretty positive for "Arthur Christmas," I had a hard time really loving it. I hope my old job hasn't affected me that much, but for me this new movie from the animation studio that brought us "Wallace and Gromit" feels awfully familiar. I guess I'm just a grinch.

"Drive" seemed like the biggest thing in the movie world when it came out in September. Now it's late November, and the Ryan Gosling thriller feels like such old news. Enter L.A. writer and comedian Alex Blagg, who wrote and stars in "Drive-Thru," a terrific parody of the film's style-and-more-style aesthetic. In this version, The Driver does all your drive-thru dirty work for you. We seriously want some Arby's now. Also: The Hamburglar cameo is genius.

Warner Independent1995's "Before Sunrise" was such a special, delicate movie -- a love story about two strangers hanging out, talking, and falling in love in the span of just a few hours -- that it was easy to be nervous when director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy announced they were going to do a sequel. So it was even more of a happy surprise that 2004's "Before Sunset" was even better: sadder, wiser, even more romantic. We always wondered if the filmmakers would reunite to do another one at some point, and it looks like those talks are getting underway. We're nervous about that, but we're also kind of excited.

Random HousePeople can't seem to decide if they love or hate (or love to hate) Diablo Cody. Her first produced screenplay, "Juno," was a massive hit and earned her an Oscar -- but soon came the backlash, with folks complaining she was really just a one-trick-pony only able to write pseudo-hip one-liners filled with pop-culture references and made-up slang. Her next script was for the horror-comedy "Jennifer's Body," which did pretty poorly. (In retrospect, it was sorta perfect that the film starred Megan Fox, perhaps the one young woman in Hollywood equally as divisive as Cody.) But now Cody may be back: She wrote "Young Adult," which is getting great buzz and is directed by "Juno" filmmaker Jason Reitman. So what does she want to do next? Maybe try to get her long-gestating big-screen version of "Sweet Valley High" finally off the ground.

DisneyOne of the big takeaways from "Being Elmo," the fun documentary about Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash, is that the "Sesame Street" crew had initially tried a different puppeteer and voice for the adorable and/or annoying character. It hadn't worked at all: Elmo sounded like a gravel-voiced cousin of Oscar the Grouch. After everyone had given up on Elmo, Clash (literally) got his hand on him and turned him into the sweet-natured, baby-talking Muppet that became a lucrative brand name. Making effortlessly vibrant Muppets isn't as easy as it looks.

The same with Walter, the brand new Muppet who's the star of "The Muppets." The New York Times has a great piece that goes into detail about how the producers finally figured out the right tone for a character who's in just about every scene of a film that's supposed to relaunch the Muppet franchise. That's a lot of pressure, but in the end, it turns out that channeling Michael Cera was all they needed.

Summit EntertainmentTop Five (Full list)
1. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" $139,500,000 ($139,500,000)
2. "Happy Feet Two" $22,025,000 ($22,025,000)
3. "Immortals" $12,252,000 ($52,980,000)
4. "Jack and Jill" $12,000,000 ($41,028,000)
5. "Puss in Boots" $10,725,000 ($122,313,000)