TANGLED: Biggest Thanksgiving Weekend in History

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From Deadline.com: “This was the largest U.S. word-of-mouth screening program for a Disney animated film ever — 250 screenings in 50 U.S. markets over 5 weeks – and the first global junket held at Disneyland.” As of publishing, Tangled is the biggest opening of a movie in the history of Thanksgiving weekend at nearly $70 million USD.

THE HELP: Tops Box Office for 25 Straight Days

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Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a small Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.