{"id":98284,"date":"2009-12-24T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/24\/singing-chipmunks-beat-sci-fi-geekfest-at-the-cineplex-so-far-this-holiday-weekend-boomtown\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:38:27","slug":"singing-chipmunks-beat-sci-fi-geekfest-at-the-cineplex-so-far-this-holiday-weekend-boomtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/98284","title":{"rendered":"Singing Chipmunks Beat Sci-Fi Geekfest at the Cineplex So Far This Holiday Weekend [BoomTown]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/31a53_avatar_poster-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/31a53_avatar_poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"avatar_poster-200x300\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22429\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/31a53_alvinsqueakuelposter-202x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/31a53_alvinsqueakuelposter-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"alvinsqueakuelposter-202x300\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite all the obsession with the Web in this column, the big Hollywood movies opening around the holidays does grab all the attention&#8211;and justifiably. <\/p>\n<p>While new computers and game players are among the top-selling gifts, giant crowds of consumers still have descended and will be flocking to cineplexes across the country yesterday, today, tomorrow on Christmas day and throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And, from the first box office reports, it looks like &#8220;Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel&#8221; is besting the sci-fi blockbuster &#8220;Avatar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, pretty crude special effects&#8211;at least from what I saw in the first one multiple times with my kids&#8211;and very charming chipmunks has earned almost $20 million so far, while the James Cameron-helmed story about a blue-skinned heroic indigenous tribe at risk is at $16 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, <a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20091117\/here-comes-tech-heavy-avatar-and-the-inevitable-smurf-spoof\/\">tech-heavy &#8220;Avatar&#8221;<\/a> has done about $243 million at the box office worldwide so far, since it opened last weekend, so it should not feel so bad about being beaten this weekend by a trio of singing rodents.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the videos of the competing trailers:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Full disclosure: Both top two movies this weekend are from 20th Century Fox, which is owned by News Corp. News Corp. (NWS) also owns Dow Jones, which owns this site.]<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20091224\/singing-chipmunks-beat-sci-fi-geekfest-at-the-cineplex-so-far\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the obsession with the Web in this column, the big Hollywood movies opening around the holidays does grab all the attention&#8211;and justifiably. While new computers and game players are among the top-selling gifts, giant crowds of consumers still have descended and will be flocking to cineplexes across the country yesterday, today, tomorrow on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}