"the great gatsby," the remake with leonardo dicaprio, was supposed to open on christmas, and the studiothought better of it and moved it back to may. > > how critical are those box office numbers at christmastime for the studios? > > like i said, it is sort of that last-ditch effort to get in the last big blockbusters of the season. kids are off for christmas, so it's a good time to open movies. christmas in general, christmas day is traditionally a very good day to open a movie, just because people open their christmas presents in the morning and go off to see a movie at night. > > and here is what you might be watching, starting with "django unchained." "you know what a bounty hunter is?" [music "you kill people." [gunshot > > this is a western with quentin tarantino directing. > > with, also, leonardo dicaprio, jamie foxx, and christoph waltz. tarantino a couple of years ago had "inglourious basterds," which was his biggest hit to date, and a year after that, another western, "true grit," the cohen brothers remake, opened at christmas and did tremendously well on its path to a lot of

dorothy slippers were acquired by the academy of motion pictures by a group of benefactors like leonardo dicaprion is will dorothy be reunited with her shoes? only she know for sure. >>> also, justin timberlake and jesti je jessica behl back from their honeymoon. helped out with the hurricane. seeing jessica and justin warmed their hearts. a shot outfor justin and jessica and giving those in rockaways something to talk about. >>> finally, twihards have set up camp outside the los angeles staples center keeping vigil. it doesn't open until this friday. by the time it does, these folks will have been sleeping outside for an entire week. the movie center has set up a roster of activities. the activities include group exercise class. one fan who flew in from england said, my brother said i need to see a shrink. this is the last one. >> that's a good smelling theater. >> they're outside. >> are they going to show the movie in staples center? i apologize for the follow-up -- are they going to show it? >> one thing. one would assume, you know what they say about assuming, that's where they're all lined