Moving away from the really crowded Thanksgiving weekend to the supposedly lighter Christmas Day weekend? Are you kidding? If anything, Dec. 25 is worse…

- Sherlock Holmes
- It’s Complicated
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel

plus the wide releases (after 2-3 weeks of limited) of:

- The Lovely Bones
- Up in the Air

It sounds like it's going to be a bloodbath. I'd bet it's going to go the "Chicago" route and only go slightly wider this weekend, and expand throughout January.

even though i was saddened by this (i want to see it NOW), but if it came out on NOV. 25 like it was supposed to, it wuld have been domiinnated by NEW MOON which will be number one for a couple weeks. But now that i think about, this moviie is not going to have a uge box office pull, itss mostly for the Oscars, which is fine but i still hope it does well

@Rob:
But the thing about Christmas weekend is that it can handle more wide releases than Thanksgiving weekend. See last Christmas: It had six movies going wide. "Marley and Me," "Benjamin Button," "Bedtime Stories," and "Valkyrie" all managed to do above $20 million on the 3-day weekend, and "Slumdog Millionaire" had a soft opening that would ultimately grow throughout Oscar season. Only "The Spirit" failed, and only slightly so.

This change will make my moviegoing schedule easier to manage, as I will be more able to watch movies over Christmas break than Thanksgiving break.